I always thought the “war on drugs” was a big pharma turf war.
Nearly every school shooter was on an antidepressant, but somehow that never makes headlines.
Nearly every school shooter was on an antidepressant, but somehow that never makes headlines.
The particularly heavy-handed enforcement from 1970s onwards that spawned the term itself broadened into a war against the social and cultural opposition to the status quo - still partly racial in nature as various black civil rights and black power movements were a significant part of that, but also targeting anti-war protesters, "pinkos" etc.