War On Drugs Research

A system that was build to “protect ad serve” took on the experiment of the war on drugs in 1968 when the Nixon administration decided to redouble efforts against the sale, distribution, and consumption of illicit drugs in the United States (Moore, L. D., & Elkavich, A. 2008). The war on drugs has giving the US a run for there money with the enormous growth in the prison system (Race and the War on Drugs, 2007). In any war in the world there’s always an intended target when the drug laws were enacted, their targets were drug king pins (Race and the War on Drugs, 2007). But over the past quarter century drug arrest have tripled, and almost half a million women are behind bars for drug-related offenses (CITE), which means the women population in state and federal prions has been growing due to the War on Drugs (Cite). This paper will focus on what the war on drugs policy was about. The …show more content…
F. (1994). the moral disaster created by and fueling the war on drugs produced a vast body of new state and federal laws in the 1980’s (Ryan, K. F. (1994). Substances that were legal like (PCP, MDMA) or decriminalized (marijuana in some states) were either criminalized or recriminalized and sentences were toughened in an attempt to deter drug use and drug distribution (CITE). Rockefeller drug law is one of the most famous and harsh drug laws in the United States (Mazza, C. 2004). Those convicted of either selling two ounces or processing four ounces of narcotics’ drugs are sentenced to prions or a mandatory minimum of fifteen years to life, That’s equal to someone raping and killing a victim (Mazza, C. 2004). The Bush Administration drug war expenditures rose from $4.5 billion in 1988 to $13 billion in 1993. As McCoy and Block report, between 1977 and 1988 the number of annual drug arrests doubled, from 569,000 to 1,155,000, virtually crippling many urban court systems