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... > deviance > drugs and society > drug policy > drug laws and policies > anti-drug war movement

... > deviance > drugs and society > drug policy > drug laws and policies > anti-drug war movement

... > social problems > drugs and society > drug policy > drug laws and policies > anti-drug war movement

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anti-drug war movement

Definition

With the exception of one or two local attempts at alcohol prohibition all drugs were legal in America from its inception until the early 20th century. The earliest anti-drug laws were typically small, localized, efforts targeted against various minority groups such as the anti-opium laws targeting Chinese on the west coast or the anti-marijuana laws aimed at Mexicans in the southwest, and so generated little attention among other Americans. [Source: Encyclopedia of Drug Policy; Anti-Drug War Movement]

Broader concept

drug laws and policies

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