That's the incumbent in the state of Massachusetts today. We're trying to become the second. But that's not the reason for this. 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. (05:31–05:38)
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Asserts that the war on drugs is the most failed war in U.S. history.
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