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title: "Drugs: How the Left and Right Both Failed America"
description: "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."
url: https://fronts.co/videos/homefronts-pzu8pd5yr48.md
canonical: https://fronts.co/videos/homefronts-pzu8pd5yr48/
datePublished: 2025-07-29T17:01:10.000Z
dateModified: 2025-07-29T17:01:10.000Z
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  - name: Fronts Staff
    url: https://fronts.co/authors/fronts-team/
publisher: Fronts
type: NewsArticle
language: en
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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.

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