The modern drug war was well underway in the 1970s (watch Donnie Brasco again). It just had not yet morphed into the crack epidemic (an epidemic whose roots la

The modern drug war was well underway in the 1970s (watch Donnie Brasco again). It just had not yet morphed into the crack epidemic (an epidemic whose roots lay partially in the skyrocketing cost of cocaine due to the war on drugs).