Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
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Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
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Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure is a 1996 book by journalist Dan Baum, a Wall Street Journal reporter. Among the topics considered are the perception of a national "drug problem" involving cannabis, leveraged by the Nixon Administration to launch the War on Drugs, and later administrations' preoccupation with the phenomenon of the crack baby while failing to address other urgent prenatal health needs.
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1996 book by Dan Baum
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