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war-on-drugs_0.jpg. June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a war on drugs â a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of or demand for drugs in the United States, and has contributed to making America the world's largest incarcerator.
While the demand for certain drugs varied over the course of the decade, overall spending on illegal substances remained consistent at roughly $100 billion per year. Over the same time period, the U.S. government spent between $40 billion and $50 billion each year fighting the war on drugs.e have spent more on the war on poverty than we have in the war on drugs, and poverty rates haven't fallen as much in 48 years as cocaine use has fallen in the last six, Caulkins said. You don't conclude from that that welfare programs should be cancelled..