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Price embedded himself into the lives of Jersey City drug dealers and the police officers assigned to chase them down, whose enforcement of the war on drugs was suffused with bitter cynicism and weariness.
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Kevin Lozano, New Yorker, 6 July 2025
Crime was skyrocketing across the U.S., and the war on drugs was escalating tensions between the police and Black communities.
—Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, also a former Texas governor, wrote a June 27 Washington Post op-ed supporting ibogaine research and criticizing the legacy of the war on drugs, started by President Richard Nixon and touted by President Ronald Reagan.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 June 2025
Newspapers were not inclined to report on police abuses, and local news made the world look like a dangerous place, with kidnappings and robberies and police bravely fighting on the frontlines of the war on drugs that was turning city streets into chaos.
—Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
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Kevin Lozano, New Yorker, 6 July 2025
Crime was skyrocketing across the U.S., and the war on drugs was escalating tensions between the police and Black communities.
—Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, also a former Texas governor, wrote a June 27 Washington Post op-ed supporting ibogaine research and criticizing the legacy of the war on drugs, started by President Richard Nixon and touted by President Ronald Reagan.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 June 2025
Newspapers were not inclined to report on police abuses, and local news made the world look like a dangerous place, with kidnappings and robberies and police bravely fighting on the frontlines of the war on drugs that was turning city streets into chaos.
—Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
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“On drugs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20drugs. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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