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Repeal the CSA: Economic Impact

by Linda Cheek, MD | Dec, Mon, 2025 | Convicted physician | 2 comments

How Repealing the Controlled Substances Act Would Revitalize the U.S. and Global Economy Few federal laws have shaped modern society as profoundly as the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970. Conceived at the height of the Nixon administration’s “War on Drugs,” it...

The True Cost of the War on Drugs—and Why the Controlled Substances Act Must Go

by Linda Cheek, MD | Dec, Fri, 2025 | War on Drugs | 5 comments

For over fifty years, the United States has fought a “war” that can’t be won — a war on its own people. Since President Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one” in 1971, federal, state, and local governments have spent more than $1 trillion enforcing...

Repeal the CSA: Economic Impact

The True Cost of the War on Drugs—and Why the Controlled Substances Act Must Go

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