Addicted to the Drug War

Frontline's two-part documentary Drug Wars, which airs on PBS on Monday and Tuesday, October 9 and 10, concludes with the U.S. government poised for its biggest campaign yet to control the flow of narcotics. The Clinton administration recently gave Colombia $1.3-billion to send police and soldiers into guerrilla-controlled territory to eradicate coca plants cultivated by peasant farmers. The history of U.S. drug-war efforts -- the subject of this instructive and often compelling four-hour

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