The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: "America's public enemy number one…is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this ...

President Richard Nixon fired the first shot in the war on drugs when he declared drugs as “public enemy No. 1” during an address to the nation in the summer of 1971, but the year before, he was ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...