Benjamin T. Smith

Smith is a professor at University of Warwick and the author of the new book The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

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New Documents Reveal the Origins of America's War On Drugs

Over fifty years ago on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared to the Washington press corps that America had a new enemy—narcotics. “America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon claimed, “is drug abuse.” To fight...

By Benjamin T. Smith
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