"You want to know what this was really all about?" Ehrlichman asked, referring to the war on drugs. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar ...

Conservative groups have launched a PR campaign to frame the Comstock Act of 1873 as an anti-drug trafficking law. One expert ...

President Richard Nixon’s former White House counsel John Dean says he’s shocked by the claim that his boss’ motivation for declaring “War on Drugs” was to lock up hippies and black ...

The modern War on Drugs began in earnest on June 17, 1971, when then-U.S. president Richard Nixon declared drugs to be “public enemy number one″ and later announced an “all-out global war on ...

On 23 December, 33 years ago, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971, initiating what has been euphemistically called the 'War on Cancer ... of many drugs in patients ...