War On Drugs Creates Violence Summary

Analysis Paper In the article of opinions found in The Washington Post, a political theorist from Harvard University by the name of Danielle Allen wrote “How the War on Drugs Creates Violence”. Allen makes a solution to the war on drugs, she emphasizes that making drugs a public health problem will then decrease the incarcerations, homicides, and poor education rates. If drugs were being tried like a health issue, not a crime, the rates of everything else that is carried on with the drug use would drop. The quantitative amount of illegal drugs that is spent by Americans as one of our leisure’s and social activities accumulates to be a sixth of the national budget. The information is given by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, which is an appeal to authority that makes the quantitative data given a trustworthy one. In the second paragraph the author is saying why the topic is important to her and why it should become important to us too. Since it is a great amount of money that is spent by Americans, we should understand the importance of her argument. In the third paragraph Allen states we are incarcerating innocent people and keeping the real criminals out on the streets. Allen considers the first step towards fighting towards drugs is to be releasing innocent offenders out of prison to stop and …show more content…
The argument Allen makes is that by legalizing marijuana, allowing other drugs and not treating drugs as a crime but as a public health issue if we want to fix our society. The author’s argument is believable in which it could help reduce a lot of the factors that is being caused by drugs. I think the author’s argument is convincing because it has a lot of expert evidence in which makes it more trustworthy. Also, by knowing the authors background it makes her argument even stronger because we know that she knows what she is talking about in the