Hari War On Drugs Summary

Johann Hari, who’s the writer of this article, discuss the point of view on the war on drugs. The war on drugs is based on the thought of eliminating all chemical drug because they have a lasting effect on the human brain negativity causing addiction. And for at least 100 years of this war on drugs, there haven’t been much benefit that has come out of this war on drugs. At the end, the war on drugs has not worker nationwide nor worldwide. Nationwide and Worldwide doesn’t seem to solve much problem for the users. Those arrested for drug use are not given the best environment for recover. One example brought up in the article, ‘‘Portugal Cut Addiction Rates in Half by Connecting Drug Users With Communities Instead of Jailing Them’’, where Hari went to Arizona prison and noticed that inmates in prison for drug use are punish in a ‘‘tiny stone isolation cages’’ for weeks on weeks (p. 65). Sooner or later, these prisoner will get out of prison, unemployed, and be in prison again for drug …show more content…
At this point, the government should consider decriminalized all drugs. The government has county that has tested this theory, which has worked. Portugal, which had the worst drug problem in Europe. So they end up decriminalizing their drug resulting in their drug use down by fifty percent (p.65). On the other hand, if the government chose the route to legalize and control all drugs similar to how tobacco and alcohol are, the end result won’t be in their favor. After all, just by taking the example of how it turned out with the legalization of tobacco and alcohol. These two have the higher rate of uses and many people have died because of it. Also, controlling the age limit to smoke hasn’t helped much and limiting the amount of alcohol level one should have to function hasn’t stop people from rethinking their actions. So with the chance to decriminalize drugs, there isn’t much to