View source for The History Channel is finally telling the stunning secret story of the war on drugs

That core truth is: The war on drugs has always been a pointless sham. For decades the federal government has engaged in a shifting series of alliances of convenience with some of the world's largest drug cartels. So while the U.S. incarceration rate has quintupled since President Richard Nixon first declared the war on drugs in 1971, top narcotics dealers have simultaneously enjoyed protection at the highest levels of power in America.<br>
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On the one hand, this shouldn't be surprising. The voluminous documentation of this fact in dozens of books has long been available to anyone with curiosity and a library card. Yet somehow, despite the fact the U.S. has no formal system of censorship, this monumental scandal has never before been presented in a comprehensive way in the medium where most Americans get their information: TV. That's why "America's War on Drugs" is a genuine milestone. We've recently seen how ideas that once seemed absolutely preposterous and taboo - for instance, that the Catholic Church was consciously safeguarding priests who sexually abused children, or that Bill Cosby may not have been the best choice for America's Dad - can after years of silence finally break through into popular consciousness and exact real consequences. The series could be a watershed in doing the same for the reality behind of one the most cynical and cruel policies in U.S. history.<br>
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<i>source: Article 'The History Channel Is Finally Telling the Stunning Secret Story of the War on Drugs' by Jon Schwarz; theintercept.com/2017/06/18/the-history-channel-is-finally-telling-the-stunning-secret-story-of-the-war-on-drugs/; The Intercept_; 18 June 2017</i>

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