War On Drugs Essay

The Mexican Drug War: Is It Their War or Ours? A common news headline in any newspaper or on any news channel these days mentions the “Mexican drug war”. It has become common along the U. S./Mexico border to hear people talking about it at schools, work places and in their own neighborhoods - coworkers, classmates and neighbors whom are involved in some way or know someone that is. Violence is seen and heard of on the U.S. side of the border quite frequently which raises the questions, is…

incarcerate are of African American decent. While they only make up 13% of American society yet by 1991 imprisonment increased by 54% Tonry, correlates this as a result of the war on drugs that began in the seventies (Cole, & Gertz, 2013). According to a survey done in 1991 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it found that drug use was not an unequivocal balance between ethnicities, leaving the question as to what is the missing part of the equation and is what Tonry further discuses in…

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the united states, having been used by 1 in 3 Americans in their lifetime. Cannabis is more commonly used among the young community. Most youth today engage in drug use due to peer pressure, curiosity or a way to deal with problems in their lives. As stated in the justice.org achieves: the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the U.S are gangs; street gangs, outlawed motorcycle gangs and prison gangs. The increasing numbers of gangs activity…

of forbidden narcotics and blocking both import and export of any illegal substances, the United States war on drugs is an attempt from government officials to safeguard the public from the use of illegal narcotics. This drug war has had a presence in American history since 1971 when President Nixon addressed the nation stating, “America 's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.”…

When the word "war" comes into peoples' minds they think about the people who serve our country and are out in the world fighting other groups of people so the United States can maintain the state it is in right now. The word "war" also has another meaning. Over the years, America has been involved in what is called "The War on Drugs." This "war" is about whether or not drugs, like marijuana, should be legalized in the United States or not. Marijuana is a plant that many people grow in either…

started the modern war on drugs, his administration’s actual role in drug policy legislation and enforcement never lived up to the inflated rhetoric surrounding the issue. The war on drugs, from a policy standpoint, was largely created under the Reagan administration. Despite having fewer than 2% of the American public reporting that they believed drugs were the most important issue the country faced (Alexander, 2010 p. 49), the Reagan administration announced its war on drugs in 1982. Unlike…

To End The Drug War. By: Art Carden The claim is a central contention asking a question or printing out these problems issue to be discussed and supporting with specific reason(s) and evident(s). Is it time to end the war on drugs? Well first let’s take a look at what the war on drugs is. “The War on Drugs is an American term commonly applied to a campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to define and reduce the illegal drug trade”.…

Has the War on Drugs Been Successful? Lawanda Hamon Keiser University Has the War on Drugs Been Successful? Despite of the large amount of money spent on the war to fight drugs, Americans have not been successful. The focus of the war on drugs was to fight the crimes against drugs instead of trying to prevent the problem. As many know, crime prevention may take time, it is not something that happens automatically. The Americans have heard from their president that he will eliminate the…

In the article “Why Mexico’s Drug War is Unwinnable,” Laura Carlsen asserts that irrespective of the method of evaluation; be it better public safety, stifled supply of illegal drug to the US market or the crippling of drug cartels, the drug war is falling. According to Carlsen, within four years of the militarization of the streets of Mexico by President Felipe Calderon to curb the drug trade, over 37,000 drug-related homicides were recorded in addition to thousands of human rights abuse…

The social policy on war of drugs is not always a good idea. Sometimes police officers may receive false, anonymous tips that people are selling drugs and due to this policy, police react on it with great force. The war on drugs seemed to have increased the force that is used when dealing with drug allegations. The way that police force and policy makers deal with the social policies regarding drugs is unproductive and infringes terrible things upon (sometimes) innocent people. Officers are…