The Monster That Is the “War on Drugs”: A Wasteful Battle.
The United States government is fighting an inefficient war, the ““War on Drugs””. Government officials need to rethink this war and its drug policy’s. In 1971 President Nixon launched what seemed like the right thing to do and started a drug prohibition. However, this “War on Drugs” is responsible not only for $51 billion of the United States debt but also discriminating people, overcrowding prisons and destroying people’s lives with non-violent drug charges. Negatively likewise military use has raised profits for drug traffickers and does little to stop drugs from entering the United States; this causes serious doubts about President Nixon’s decision to heavily prohibit drugs and the policies …show more content…
The RAND Corporation has proven the “War on Drugs” to be unsuccessful. “drug control rhetoric has sometimes included references to a “drug-free society.” By this standard, of course, U.S. policy on drugs has been a failure and so will always be”. (Caulkins, Jonathan P. 2005) Never in recorded history has there been a society free of drugs.
Nixon put goals in place that where never met or contradicted one another. There were two main goals; reduction of drug use and reduction of trafficking. The Office of Technology Assessment concluded, “Interdiction efforts, using current armed forces resources, would have almost no effect on cocaine importation into the United States”. How successful or unsuccessful has the “War on Drugs” been? With failed enforcement and prevention, and little to no treatment for addicts not that successful. Despite the War’s effort drug use in America rises. The “War on Drugs” is clearly not working. However, there has yet to be a cut back on prohibition of
The United States government is fighting an inefficient war, the ““War on Drugs””. Government officials need to rethink this war and its drug policy’s. In 1971 President Nixon launched what seemed like the right thing to do and started a drug prohibition. However, this “War on Drugs” is responsible not only for $51 billion of the United States debt but also discriminating people, overcrowding prisons and destroying people’s lives with non-violent drug charges. Negatively likewise military use has raised profits for drug traffickers and does little to stop drugs from entering the United States; this causes serious doubts about President Nixon’s decision to heavily prohibit drugs and the policies …show more content…
The RAND Corporation has proven the “War on Drugs” to be unsuccessful. “drug control rhetoric has sometimes included references to a “drug-free society.” By this standard, of course, U.S. policy on drugs has been a failure and so will always be”. (Caulkins, Jonathan P. 2005) Never in recorded history has there been a society free of drugs.
Nixon put goals in place that where never met or contradicted one another. There were two main goals; reduction of drug use and reduction of trafficking. The Office of Technology Assessment concluded, “Interdiction efforts, using current armed forces resources, would have almost no effect on cocaine importation into the United States”. How successful or unsuccessful has the “War on Drugs” been? With failed enforcement and prevention, and little to no treatment for addicts not that successful. Despite the War’s effort drug use in America rises. The “War on Drugs” is clearly not working. However, there has yet to be a cut back on prohibition of