War On Drugs Essay

First Supposition: The War on Drugs as an Abject Failure The first supposition that I have chosen to discuss is about the War on Drugs as an abject failure. I chose this supposition because I definitely agree with this statement. I believe that the War on Drugs has failed at their efforts of trying to reduce and eliminate the use of drug and has overall failed at improving society. As a result of the War on Drugs, I believe that it increased racial profiling and the incarceration of African…

In the article The political economy of Mexico’s drug war written by Helen Redmond there is a quote she included from Dr. Arturo Valenzuela Zorrilla, “The whole world has a bad strategy for fighting drugs... this is a health problem, not a criminal problem.” She supports this by providing the ideas of Dr. Viniegra. Prohibition was one way that the US tried to battle drug use but that backfired terribly. Prohibition made the drug market a prominent part of the international consumer markets.…

The war on drugs has caused irreversible damage to societies. During 1971, President Nixon declared an all out war on drugs because it was public enemy number one. Nixon’s campaign galvanized the rest of the world into adopting the same campaign. The results are in and it has caused devastating and unintended consequences. One devastating consequence the war on drugs generated is - homicides. Starting in the United States, many Americans have seen a rise in homicides. A video by Kurzgesagt, a…

could kill you. History has shown that many deaths have come from deadly infections or other bacteria related incidents. Over the years, there have been many medical technological advances, but one of the most famous was penicillin, “The Wonder Drug”. The drug, that was never suppose to exist and was almost disposed of, has revolutionized the way we treat infections. The effects of penicillin have been…

Seelye takes on the Heroin crisis in America head on in her New York Times article “In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs”. She starts the article off by discussing how heroin use among white individuals is a growing issue. She then proceeds to share the stories of families directly affected by heroin use. The article comes to a close by providing how drug addiction should be treated as a disease and not a crime. The author use of narration of events and illustration and…

In the Vietnam War. To what extent did drugs affect the war and what effect did drugs have on the soldiers fighting the war I answered this big question with these three questions. To what extent did the use of drugs affect the American soldiers fighting the Vietnam War? How readily available were drugs during the Vietnam War? And to what extent did the use of drugs in the war have on the families when they returned home? To what extent did the use of drugs affect the American soldiers fighting…

The article by Sonia Nazario, “The Children of the Drug Wars; a Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis” is the article that caught my attention the most this semester. The passage talks about a different but very similar couple stories about children’s living in very dangerous places in Central America where gangs are one of the biggest problems. Christian’s story, Was one of the stories that caught my attention the most. His story starts when he was 11 years old. His father was killed by…

prison population but one quarter of the total population? The answers to these questions can be largely explained by the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs has increased punishment for the distribution,…

African American communities which have the highest incarceration rate out of any other race by a landslide. How do they actually target these communities? Well it all began practically with the Reagan era and the “War on Drugs” which swept the nation, enforcing mandatory minimums for minor drug charges focusing particularly on cocaine in the lesser affluent neighborhoods. In class we have emphasized this, and in the documentary that we viewed in class, 13, expresses the division of our system…

have continued fighting against drug use in America by having law enforcement lock up any and all people caught possessing, distributing, growing, or selling any illegal drugs (Breaking the Taboo). The War on Drugs has led to the large number of drug offenders in prison. Currently, half of the federal prison population is incarcerated for drug-related crimes (Galston and McElvein). It is important to note the nature of crimes committed, especially involving drugs, because of another large flaw…