As children growing up in the United States we are accustomed to the anti-drug propaganda to which we are exposed to since very young ages. We have programs such as D.A.R.E, where police officers come into classroom of middle school children, and educate them about the effects of drug abuse. We have “ SAY NO TO DRUGS!” embedded in our head. Advertisements on television and the posters on billboards have become more clever to reach out to different age dynamics and different groups of people. Yet, we continue to have a consistent rate of drug abusers even though illicit drugs are banned by our federal government and means are taken to control the drug abuse. But what if, the government wasn’t particularly concerned with the drug abuse? What
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The first was in the early 1900’s. In which Argentina ’s police and medical authorities wanted to work on regulating a framework deal with the newly perceived problem. The problem grew with the developments in international drug control. The government of Argentina sent a specialist in legal medicine Francisco de Veyga as an observer to the First International Opium Conference in 1911. He observed, but did not sign the International Opium Convention. Argentina signed the International Opium Convention in 1919, when it was incorporated as a mandatory element of the Treaty of Versaille. This show’s some level of government concern about the drug epidemic, but not particularly much to trigger any …show more content…
The changing climate is perhaps most clearly perceived in the evolving drug-fighting role of the federal police. Between 1920 and 1970, the federal police relied on a modest Alkaloids Brigade of no more than five agents to deal with all its drug cases……. In late 1970 the Alkaloids Brigade, until then dependent on the Personal Security Division, gained elevated title of Narcotics Division. According to the police statistics, as soon as the division as born, drug relation detentions multiplied, notably..”(citation) Though the government still wasn’t taking any official action in changing the laws, The police and doctors were doing everything in their limited powers to fight the drug epidemic as best as they could. Now they were not only arresting traffickers, but people in company of the traffickers as well. “ …1,410 in 1970 to 2,610 in 1971, including 619 underaged buys and 405 underaged
The first was in the early 1900’s. In which Argentina ’s police and medical authorities wanted to work on regulating a framework deal with the newly perceived problem. The problem grew with the developments in international drug control. The government of Argentina sent a specialist in legal medicine Francisco de Veyga as an observer to the First International Opium Conference in 1911. He observed, but did not sign the International Opium Convention. Argentina signed the International Opium Convention in 1919, when it was incorporated as a mandatory element of the Treaty of Versaille. This show’s some level of government concern about the drug epidemic, but not particularly much to trigger any …show more content…
The changing climate is perhaps most clearly perceived in the evolving drug-fighting role of the federal police. Between 1920 and 1970, the federal police relied on a modest Alkaloids Brigade of no more than five agents to deal with all its drug cases……. In late 1970 the Alkaloids Brigade, until then dependent on the Personal Security Division, gained elevated title of Narcotics Division. According to the police statistics, as soon as the division as born, drug relation detentions multiplied, notably..”(citation) Though the government still wasn’t taking any official action in changing the laws, The police and doctors were doing everything in their limited powers to fight the drug epidemic as best as they could. Now they were not only arresting traffickers, but people in company of the traffickers as well. “ …1,410 in 1970 to 2,610 in 1971, including 619 underaged buys and 405 underaged