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		djur on Aug 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse a... "War On Drugs" is a term mostly used by critics of US drug policy these days.

thrownaway2424 on Aug 26, 2014 [–]

It has a lot of baggage. "War on drugs" was I believe first uttered in public by Nixon and I don't think anyone used the phrase after Bush (the Elder).

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