Recent Blog Posts
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How Marijuana Legalization Shifted the DEA’s Long War With Drug Cartels
For more than 50 years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been locked in a high-stakes contest with Mexican drug cartels. From the outside, that battle can look like a simple game of cat and mouse: agents versus smugglers, raids versus tunnels, seizures versus shipments. In reality, it is a shifting chess match, and…
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From Nixon to Now: Why the War on Drugs Still Shapes American Life
America’s “war on drugs” is often talked about like a single policy, but it’s a half-century of decisions about crime, health, and control. The modern era started in 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one” and launched a federal crackdown that quickly became known as the War on Drugs. From…