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What’s Your Anti-Drug?

National drug policy will be more conservative than compassionate

By Steven Wishnia

In his first interviews as attorney general, John Ashcroft pledged to “reinvigorate,” “renew,” “refresh” and “re-launch” the war on drugs, arguing that the Clinton administration had been lax in fighting narcotics. It’s difficult to imagine how Bill Clinton could have been much harsher, short of public executions of drug dealers. Under his administration, federal prisons opened at a rate of almost… return to article

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