NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—May 15, 2013. When the United States intensified its War on Drugs in the mid-1980s, the media, government policy, police forces and Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign all painted the perils of drug use. Crack/cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and other illegal drugs were all blamed for increased murder rates, addiction, overdoses and a myriad of other problems plaguing the country’s urban areas. Growing up African American in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods, Carl Hart,…
