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The war on drugs is an effort led by the US government, of drug prohibition, military aid and military intervention, with the aim to reduce the illegal use of drug in the US. The campaign includes a set of drug policies that are meant for discouraging the production, distribution and consumption of illegal drugs.

The War on Drugs started in June 1971 when US president Richard Nixon announced drug abuse to be "public's big enemy" and raised federal funding for drug-control agencies and drug treatment efforts.

During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the movement against the drug abuse continue to take its expanded form. In 1984, Reagan's wife, Nancy started another campaign against drug abuse with a simple statement "Just Say No". This was a privately funded effort to educate school children on the bad impacts of illegal drug use. In 1986, the US Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act with an allocation of $1.7 billion to the War on Drugs and announced a series of compulsory minimum prison sentences for different kinds of drug offences.

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