Introducing: The War on Drugs

In 1971, President Nixon declared drug abuse ‘public enemy number one’— the first salvo in America’s War on Drugs. Fifty years later, with drug overdoses in the US at a record high, are we any closer to ‘victory’? The War on Drugs has a more profound effect on society than any of us really understands. It is embedded in the fabric of our culture and permeates our daily lives in visible and invisible ways – perhaps the most daunting pandemic we face.

Lava for Good’s The War on Drugs podcast, co-hosted by comedian Clayton English and Greg Glod, senior criminal justice fellow at Americans for Prosperity, examines the true cost of five decades of policy, policing, and persecution. Special guests, including diverse subject matter experts, peel back the surface of this complicated period of US history, showing the ways the War on Drugs has fueled over incarceration, exacerbated addiction and hampered economic progress. By shining a spotlight on how our communities have crumbled under the weight of this so-called ‘war,’ we can explore the politicization of public health policy, institutional racism and classism in the legislation and administration of criminal law, and how decriminalization and other alternatives could bring the fruitless ‘war’ to an end. 

The War on Drugs will be available every Wednesday beginning January 25 wherever you get your podcasts.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is this all were recording? I can hear you. All right,
let's get it all right, here we go. I'm Greg
Laud and this is a new podcast about the War
on drugs. This is Harry j Anslinger, Commissioner of the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The War on drugs was never
about drugs. The Treasury Department intends to pursue every lienterless

(00:24):
warfare against the dope battling boxer who raised on the
weakness of his fellow man. War on drugs impacts everyone,
whether or not you take drugs. I understand that people
overdosed and died, but I didn't do any of that.
And I actually need the medicine. America's public enemy Number
one in the United States is drug abuse. This podcast

(00:47):
is gonna show you the truth behind the war on drobe.
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for conspiracy to reviewed pounds tomorrow one wife. And this
is solely based on somebody else, just what they say,
And yeah, they can do that without any drugs on
the table. That on the prime example the war on
drugs is the excuse our government uses to get away

(01:10):
with absolutely insane stuff. Stuff The property is guilty exactly,
and it starts as guilty, starts as guilty. Cops are
they just like looting, They just think pillaging. They just
have way better names for what they call, like what
we would call a jack move or being robbed. He
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(01:34):
the War on Drugs starting on January on the I
Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.