No. 21—The War on Drugs — is an ongoing process. As the Department of Justice explains in its statement to Congress on Thursday:
“The war on drugs is one of the most controversial wars in the history of our nation’s country — involving the distribution of drugs with a view to increasing the cost of those drugs for the majority of America.”
A more recent study from the RAND Corporation found that “Americans have a negative view of the drug war at the state and local level (particularly at the national level) since it has led to disproportionate and often disproportionate arrests and detention of low- and middle-income individuals seeking marijuana possession — in particular, those who use marijuana as part of "narcotics-free” education at state and federal institutions and institutions of higher learning.“ Even though nearly half [of the] adult U.S. population between the ages of 18 and 29 have an ounce or less of marijuana, nearly half do not use marijuana in public or private settings.
The War on Drugs has also targeted medical or recreational marijuana. Despite this, there is a strong backlash against legalization of marijuana use in large part because it has no criminal penalties related to possession, which some argue has been allowed to continue.
