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Drugs and ThugsThe History and Future of America's War on Drugs$
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Drugs and Thugs: The History and Future of America's War on Drugs

Russell Crandall

Print publication date: 2020

Print ISBN-13: 9780300240344

Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2021

DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300240344.001.0001

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Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward

Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward

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(p.409) Concluding Thoughts and a Tentative Way Forward
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Drugs and Thugs
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Russell Crandall

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Yale University Press
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300240344.003.0029

This chapter emphasizes how 23 million Americans between the ages of twelve and sixty-five are illicit drug users despite the billions of dollars spent on prevention, treatment, law enforcement, and interdiction. It talks about marijuana use among Americans increasing steadily from 13.9 percent in 2016 to 15.9 percent in 2018. It also elaborates how the United States was buckling under an enormous drug abuse and addiction problem, with 15 million troubled users of alcohol and several million others regularly abusing illegal drugs. The chapter looks at an official Pentagon profile titled “Operation Martillo Drops the Hammer on Smugglers”, which detailed progress on the new initiative to interrupt the Florida/Caribbean channel that South American kingpins were using to transport cocaine. It recounts how four years after the Pentagon report, the Pentagon's official website headline touted Martillo as still hammering away at drug trafficking.

Keywords:   illicit drug, marijuana use, drug abuse, Pentagon profile, drug trafficking

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