The War on Drugs
Illustration for the article “The War on Drugs”, published in the winter issue of America, a French magazine that examines the United States of the first Trump term from an angle at once literary and critical, weaving narrative, reportage, essays, and images.
Don Winslow demolishes half a century of the “war on drugs”: a crusade that has filled prisons, militarised the police, and transformed repression into a business, eroding freedom and rights, especially for minorities. For him, the only way to reverse course is to treat addiction as a matter of public health and social suffering, decriminalise drugs, and invest in schools, work, and communities.
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