| We're overwhelmed -- quick, send money! |
| Year |
Headline |
Publication |
Issue Date |
| 1922 |
Increasing drug menace and its serpentine trail |
Current Opinion |
May |
| 1925 |
Losing fight against the deadly poppy |
Literary Digest |
Jan 3 |
| 1936 |
Rising tide of narcotics over world |
Literary Digest |
May 16 |
| 1946 |
Thirty million new addicts |
Time |
Jan 19 |
| 1951 |
New York wakes up to find 15,000 teen-age dope addicts |
Newsweek |
Jan 29 |
| 1957 |
Dope: congress encourages the traffic |
Nation |
Mar 16 |
| 1966 |
Growing peril; teenage use of drugs for kicks |
Good Housekeeping |
May |
| 1967 |
Marijuana: millions of turned on users |
Life |
Jul 7 |
| 1967 |
Drugs: mounting menace of abuse |
Look |
Aug 8 |
| 1968 |
Alarming rise in dope traffic |
US News |
Sep 2 |
| 1969 |
Growing menace of drugs |
US News |
Jul 28 |
| 1969 |
Operation impossible; drive against drugs from Mexico |
Time |
Oct 17 |
| 1970 |
Kids and heroin: the adolescent epidemic |
Time |
Mar 16 |
| 1970 |
Drugs: ten years to doomsday? |
Saturday Review |
Nov 14 |
| 1970 |
Booming traffic in drugs: the government's dilemma |
US News |
Dec 7 |
| 1972 |
Last week was a bad week for the narcs; eventual decriminalization of marijuana |
Science News |
Feb 19 |
| 1973 |
Grass grows more acceptable |
Time |
Sep 10 |
| 1975 |
Survey reports marijuana use has increased |
Psychology Today |
Apr |
| 1976 |
Losing battle against heroin |
New Republic |
Feb 7 |
| 1977 |
Mexican heroin flow continues unabated |
Science |
Apr 29 |
| 1978 |
Is U.S. becoming a drug-ridden society? |
US News |
Aug 7 |
| 1979 |
Growing acceptance of marijuana |
USA Today (Periodical) |
Feb |
| 1979 |
Rise in cocaine use |
USA Today (Periodical) |
Feb |
| 1980 |
Kids are smoking pot more and enjoying it more, HEW reports |
Phi Delta Kappan |
Jun |
| 1980 |
New flood of heroin, and why it isn't stopped |
US News |
Dec 8 |
| 1981 |
Marijuana: a U.S. farm crop that's booming |
US News |
Oct 12 |
| 1984 |
Why the U.S. is losing the war against drugs |
US News |
Feb 6 |
| 1984 |
More bad news in the war against drugs |
US News |
Jul 16 |
| 1984 |
Cocaine use is epidemic in nation, report says |
Jet |
Nov 12 |
| 1985 |
Flood of drugs -- a losing battle |
US News |
Mar 25 |
| 1985 |
Drugs drugs everywhere -- and no solution in sight |
National Review |
Aug 9 |
| 1985 |
Teen drug abuse -- the news is bad |
US News |
Nov 18 |
| 1986 |
Cocaine use up sharply in '84 government study says |
Jet |
Jan 13 |
| 1986 |
The latest antidrug war: better luck this time? |
US News |
Aug 25 |
| 1986 |
Cocaine: an American epidemic? |
Current Health |
Nov |
| 1986 |
The U.S. campaign against international narcotics trafficking: a cure worse than the disease |
USA Today (Periodical) |
Nov |
| 1987 |
The drug war bogs down |
Time |
Nov 23 |
| 1988 |
Where the war is being lost |
Time |
Mar 14 |
| 1988 |
Losing the war? |
Newsweek |
Mar 14 |
| 1988 |
An explosion of drug labs |
Newsweek |
Apr 25 |
| 1988 |
The lost 'drug war' |
National Review |
May 27 |
| 1988 |
A bumper crop of hothouse marijuana |
Newsweek |
Aug 15 |
| 1988 |
Losing the drugwar: drugs, banks, and Florida politics |
American Spectator |
Sep |
| 1989 |
A lost cause is a lost cause |
National Review |
Sep 29 |
| 1989 |
Why we're losing the war on drugs |
Reader's Digest |
Oct |
| 1990 |
A failed 'test case': Washington's drug war |
Newsweek |
Jan 29 |
| 1990 |
In the cocaine war ... the jungle is winning |
NY Times Magazine |
Mar 4 |
| 1990 |
The streets are filled with coke |
US News |
Mar 5 |
| 1990 |
The war that will not end [cocaine cartels vs gov't] |
Time |
Jul 23 |
| 1990 |
D.C.'s War on drugs: why Bennett is losing |
New York Times Magazine |
Sep 23 |
| 1990 |
A losing battle |
Time |
Dec 3 |
| 1991 |
The flow goes on [cocaine trade] |
Time |
Aug 26 |
| 1991 |
An unproductive war against drugs |
Forbes |
Nov 11 |
| 1992 |
Cracks in the drug war: why the U.S.-Andean alliance to stop the cocaine flow is in trouble |
US News |
Mar 2 |
| 1992 |
Losing battles in the war on drugs |
World Press Review |
Jun |
| 1992 |
Rangel cites statistics revealing U.S. is losing in its war on drugs |
Jet |
Sep 21 |
| 1993 |
Worldwide drug scourge: the expanding trade in illicit drugs |
Brookings Review |
Winter |
| 1993 |
Clinton's drug policy is a bust |
Time |
Dec 20 |
| 1995 |
Use of illegal drugs up among youth across U.S.: University of Michigan poll |
Jet |
Jan 9 |
| 1996 |
The war on drugs is lost |
National Review |
Feb 12 |
| 1996 |
Why this country is losing the drug war |
US News |
Sep 16 |
| 1996 |
Give pot a chance: voters in California and Arizona strike a blow against the war on drugs |
Rolling Stone |
Dec 26 |
| 1997 |
War ends, drugs win |
Nation |
Jan 6 |
| 1997 |
The drug war's phony fix: why certification doesn't work |
Nation |
Apr 28 |
| 1998 |
The lost war on drugs |
World Press Review |
Feb |
| 1998 |
A flow of powerful pot |
Maclean's |
Aug 3 |
| 2001 |
Lifting the lid on a failed drug war |
World Press Review |
Mar |
| 2001 |
The war against the war on drugs |
Time |
May 7 |
| 2001 |
It's time to give up the war on drugs |
Business Week |
Sep 17 |