The Cold War: The War On Drugs

War has been going on since the beginning of human life. With technology improving in such a fast pace, war has become more and more complicated. To me, war was originally a country fighting another country because a difference in ideology or a disagreement on something very important. But in today’s world, war has changed to a whole other dimension and has so many meanings. After World War II, the US and the Soviet Union started the Cold War. The Cold War was a war in which the US and Soviet Union didn’t directly fight each other but rather supported countries in which favored their Ideology. Furthermore, after the Cold War, war has continued to change in a direction that is whole new. The drug epidemic has also introduced a new type of warfare. “The War on Drugs” brought war into the US against the illegal drug trade and has …show more content…
“The War on Drugs” was a campaign started under President Nixon in 1971 to reduce and end the illegal drug trade. “The War on Drugs” illustrates how war doesn’t have to be against other countries or use deadly military weapons but can be the exact opposite. With the starting of this war on drugs, the government put anyone caught using or distributing drugs in prison at an aggressive pace. This brought about an increase in US federal prisons even when crime rates were going down (Gilmore 171). The War on Drugs has continued until this day and in the film “The House I Live In” directed by Eugene Jarecki, we get an insight of who it is affecting on both sides of the war. In the film, we see how the current war on drugs really puts anyone caught with drugs in jail regardless of it being hard or soft drugs. In 2009 nearly 1.7 million people were arrested in the US for nonviolent drug charges (Jarecki). The cops making these arrests are getting great promotions and the prisons taking in these inmates are making great