In class we have been discussing how America will never be a drug free America. Americans started to use drugs, as early as when they started to consume plants. According to our past history, the first law regarding illegal drugs started once the Chinese came to do our rail roads and government officials found out that they were using the drug known as Opium. In addition, a few years later anti- marijuana laws were then made, and were directed to the Mexican immigrants. As one can see, drugs was always part of our society and the anti-drug laws were always targeted to the minorities in society. Due to the increase amount of illegal drug use, and drug trade president Nixon and government officials proposed the war on drugs in the 70’s. Although
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For instances, both Mosher and Akins writes how Crack Cocaine was developed by South America. Once it started getting popular the media, and government officials told the pubic how bad Crack Cocaine is for a person and how addictive it was. They formulated this conception based off African American in order to demonize Crack Cocaine and to save the whites of higher social class. Not only does this chapter examine the demonization of the illegal drugs (Crack Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, etc.). But, it also compared illegal drugs to legal drugs. Statistics mentioned in this book shows how there has been more deaths regarding legal drugs than drugs that are illegal. This being said, it brings up the question: why is illegal drugs (crack, heroin, etc.) still illegal when statists show …show more content…
Moore and Elkavich talks about the employment opportunity for inmates. They write “Former inmates may have lost family and social ties. They are certainly less employable than before, because many employers do not hire convicted felons” … people with drug-related felonies are not eligible for government assistances (Moore 1). This quote implies that because inmates aren’t treated like people, meaning they have no social support (in terms of government) when they leave prison. They are more likely to be back in prison for the simple reason that they will then start engaging in illegal activities which benefits those who are prison owners (that are part of the higher social classes) for the simple reason that the government will keep giving them (prison owners) money for each inmate that they have in their
For instances, both Mosher and Akins writes how Crack Cocaine was developed by South America. Once it started getting popular the media, and government officials told the pubic how bad Crack Cocaine is for a person and how addictive it was. They formulated this conception based off African American in order to demonize Crack Cocaine and to save the whites of higher social class. Not only does this chapter examine the demonization of the illegal drugs (Crack Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, etc.). But, it also compared illegal drugs to legal drugs. Statistics mentioned in this book shows how there has been more deaths regarding legal drugs than drugs that are illegal. This being said, it brings up the question: why is illegal drugs (crack, heroin, etc.) still illegal when statists show …show more content…
Moore and Elkavich talks about the employment opportunity for inmates. They write “Former inmates may have lost family and social ties. They are certainly less employable than before, because many employers do not hire convicted felons” … people with drug-related felonies are not eligible for government assistances (Moore 1). This quote implies that because inmates aren’t treated like people, meaning they have no social support (in terms of government) when they leave prison. They are more likely to be back in prison for the simple reason that they will then start engaging in illegal activities which benefits those who are prison owners (that are part of the higher social classes) for the simple reason that the government will keep giving them (prison owners) money for each inmate that they have in their