The Uncertain Hour Season 3: Inside America’s Drug War

The third season of "The Uncertain Hour" starts March 21. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum and Tony Wagner/Marketplace

Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush held up a baggie of crack on live TV, and said it had been seized right in front of the White House. The Uncertain Hour’s third season looks at how the policies launched that day continue to reverberate – even as the crack epidemic has faded into history. New episodes start March 21.

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