Drugs: How the Left and Right Both Failed America
Simon Whistler · July 29, 2025 · 31 min video · Americas
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380 million. That's how many lethal doses of fentanyl the DEA seized in just one year in the United States. It is enough to kill every single American with plenty left over, and that's just what they caught.
It shows up all over the country, from rural West Virginia to the streets of Kensington, Philadelphia. It cuts across class and geography, hit an encounter for pills, laced into cocaine, slipped into party scenes, and dying towns alike. No community is truly safe.
The country swung from one extreme of mass incarceration that cost over a trillion dollars and failed to accomplish all this, set out to achieve, to another extreme, where cities decriminalized or stopped enforcing drug possession and use, including in public. And the results?
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America spent decades fighting drugs with punishment, then swung to tolerance. Now it faces a crisis of addiction, overdose, and public decay. This is the story of the war on drugs—lost twice.
