The reason for this is we've got to take drug addiction, the most failed war, the war on drugs in the history of the United States, and turn it into a battle against addiction. It's a failed war. It's worse now than when the war was declared by Richard Nixon in 1974. And we've got to do better. And as attorney general, I'm going to do better. That's partly because I've been preparing for this. When I saw that type of struggle. (05:39–05:44)
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