CRM 402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nancy Reagan, Adversarial System, Incarceration In The United States
25 Apr 2013
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Chapter two: just say no to the war on drugs. As the troops began to return from vietnam, president nixon argued for a all out global war on the drug menace . By the mid-1980"s president ronald reagan continued to declare a war on drugs". His wife nancy reagan (the first lady) joined her husband in calling for a prohibition on illicit drugs with the motto just say no to drugs . This set the tone for a relentless national policy on illicit drugs that continues until present day. President george bush talked of the drug problem . The very nature of that war the more vigorously a nation wages it, the more catastrophic are the social consequences inflicted upon itself [the nation]. We in canada have suffered less only because we have not pursued the war with the ardor and single-minded determination of the americans .
