<human>:  When did the War on Drugs begin?
<bot>: The War on Drugs was first declared in 1971 by President Richard Nixon. The war was meant to be a war on drugs, not a war on people. The goal of the war was to reduce the availability of drugs in the United States. The war was a huge failure, and the government has spent trillions of dollars trying to fight the war on drugs, and it has been a total failure.