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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, New York legislators faced a drug problem they feared was growing out of control. Federal statistics showed as many as 559,000 users nationwide and state police saw a 31 percent increase in drug arrests by 1972. In response Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, a...
Although the U.S. government has battled drugs for decades - President Eisenhower assembled a 5-member Cabinet committee to "stamp out narcotic addiction" in 1954 - the term "War on Drugs" was not widely used until President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973 to announce "an all-out global...
Catchy slogans are no match for chemical addictions, however, and study after study showed that programs such as D.A.R.E. - no matter how beloved - produced negligent results. And while the Bush administration's 2002 goal of reducing all illegal drug use by 25% led to unprecedented numbers of marijuana-related arrests...
Though advances have been made in the long suffering effort to contain international drug use and production, a parallel surge in drug-related organized crime has popped up as a unfortunate and unintended consequence. Antonio Maria Costa, Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, addresses this nasty...
It's one of the ironies of art history that Paul Cézanne used to warn young painters, "Beware of the influential master." Could there have been a more influential master than he? "The master of us all" is what Henri Matisse once called him, by which he surely meant...