Trump’s Clarion Call to Re-Weaponize ‘Drug War’

Expand © 2016 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch US President Donald Trump is ready to intensify one of the most abusive policy failures in US history – the “war on drugs.” Trump made an incendiary speech at the United Nations decrying the “scourge” of drugs, followed with a pledge signed by 129 nations that evoked language eerily reminiscent of the US policy pronouncements at the height of the US drug war in the 1980s and 1990s. “It’s vital for public health and national security that we fight drug addiction and stop all forms of trafficking and smuggling that provide the financial lifeblood…

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