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From American streets to Andean coca farms, the United States has battled drugs since Richard Nixon was president. And yet, some 35 years and 500 billion dollars later, drugs are everywhere, and cheap, and Americans are using them in epidemic proportions.
Critics say the War on Drugs is lost — half a million people in prison for drug crimes, while the cartels remain two steps ahead of the Feds.
Now, with a new billion-plus dollar plan to go after Mexican cartels, will we repeat the mistakes of the past?
This hour, On Point: America’s lost war on drugs, and the search for a new way.
-Jayne Clayson
Guests:
Ben Wallace-Wells, Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone Magazine.
Ethan Brown, author of the just-released “Snitch: Informants, Cooperators, and the Corruption of Justice.”
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Al Dorman
Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.
After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?
The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.
New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.
