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Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Disaster: A Community of ‘Therapeutic Farms’

Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Disaster: A Community of ‘Therapeutic Farms’

Although Mr. Kennedy’s embrace of restoration farms could also be novel, the idea stretches again virtually a century. In 1935, the federal government opened the United States Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Ky., to analysis and deal with habit. Through the years, residents included Chet Baker and William S. Burroughs (who portrayed the establishment in his […]