Drug Wars Full Measure

President Richard Nixon officially declared the War on Drugs in 1971. Trillions of tax dollars later, by nearly every account, that war has failed. A record amount of the opioid fentanyl is crossing in through our southern border, and a record number of Americans are dying from drugs. Now, the new leader of our most important partners in the drug war — Colombia — has also declared failure and announced a controversial change in strategy, as Scott Thuman reports.

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