Marijustice

This paragraph is to provide reasons why I will be using each piece of evidence. To start off with “The House I Live In,” the documentary would allow me to write in the perspective of the drug dealer. The individual named Shanequa showed me what she has been through, and where she had grown up. Her financial situation was always a struggle, and she saw drug dealers with fancy chains. So with the opportunities she had, she picked to become a drug dealer. I hope to use this evidence to not only show the reader what it means to be in Shaniqua's situation, but how it can effect someone economically if they are sent to prison. Moving on to Drug War Facts, this is a simple source with numbers gather from all sorts of government and education websites, …show more content…
Minitoes are often put in the position that they are afraid of the police, and I hope to use that in my argument to show that they are often picked on for their race. In, “Race and Marijuana Arrests,” I hope to use the numbers it provides to demonstrate that police are targeting minorities more frequently. With the article titled, “Uses and Abuses of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal,” I am going to show that there are system out there that do work, we just refuse to use them as a country. Using the article, “How a $2 Roadside Drug Test Sends Innocent People to Jail,” I will show that there are flaws in the system that need to be addressed, these flaws often send innocent people to jail. In the documentary, “Extreme Smuggling,” I want to show a drug dealers perspective from a different country to compare it to a drug dealer from the US. By doing this, I hope to show that there are similarities between the two, as they are most likely caused by economic reasons. The next article of the War on Drugs provides an accurate description about how the programs that the US have put into place often fail, using the teenage program called D.A.R.E for