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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.
1 Richard Branson: Prohibition caused damage in the same way the war on drugs has done. 2  Branson says if one of his companies is failing, he doesn't continue with failed strategies. 3  U.S. has the most prisoners in the world, he says, 500,000 of them for drug violations.pinion: The end of the war on marijuana. The facts are overwhelming. If the global drug trade were a country, it would have one of the top 20 economies in the world. In 2005, the United Nations estimated the global illegal drug trade is worth more than $320 billion.