Today on Your Call: Who’s profiting from the war on drugs?

Ali Budner — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:00:00 +0000

On today's Your Call, we’ll talk about the money behind the drug war. The U.S. government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010.

America's war on drugs: 40 years, a trillion dollars, and debatable results

Chris Connelly — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:52:29 +0000

In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared drug users public enemy number one. Young, white, middle-class kids were openly using recreational drugs, and long-held stigmas about drug use were shrinking, especially in the Bay Area. Public perception typically connected drugs with protest culture and the social rebellion of the '60s and '70s. To then-president Richard Nixon, and many others, it was a sign of society coming apart at the seams.