Daily Targum, 01 Oct 2012 – Swimming Upstream I found myself engaged in several conversations this week concerning the "War on Drugs" and the residual effects it has on various aspects of our society, and I discovered that many of the people I spoke with had very little — if any — knowledge about the subject. Even worse, those who actually had something to contribute to the discussion often seemed to simply regurgitate wildly inaccurate and dangerously propagandistic "facts" that I suspect they picked up from scattered mainstream news broadcasts or their child’s DARE pamphlets from the 1990s. In order to prevent the continued spread of these misunderstandings and to keep them from being propagated throughout the population during a crucial election year, I decided to do some research to find out the truth about the impact of the "War on Drugs."