US: Historic victories and devastating setbacks in the fight against the failed drug war in 2016
3 January 2017
By Tony Newman
For the last seven years I have written an end-of-year piece about the top stories of the year in the fight to end our disastrous war on drugs.
2016 has been a strange, difficult year. We’ve accomplished more historic victories than ever -- but they’re now overshadowed by the election of Donald Trump and the despair he is primed to wreak on our most vulnerable communities.
Here’s my take on this year’s most important victories and its most enormous setbacks.
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