War On Drugs Essay

their government is set up much like ours, though. A webpage from Info Please elaborated on how the Mexican government is notorious for corruption, which is especially due to the drug cartels. So prevalent, in fact, that it is worth mentioning in this context. There are dangers associated with crossing paths with the drug cartels in any way. Overall, and for our purposes, I would say that we do not have to worry about this too much. The way we operate at JHAL, I do not foresee any battles to be…

research the drug world in Mexico. Before researching this topic, I already knew drug trade is a common thing in Mexico, drugs are imported and exported from and to Mexico and many people are killed because of reasons related to drugs. A couple of things I wanted to know about this topic were how drug trade has affected Mexico economically and the normal way of living and how much violence had been directly tied to the drug trade. In the end, I decided to investigate if the legalization of…

continued to cramp down on all drug related crime. Since this time, we have seen millions of people indicted on drug charges and our prison system is reaching maximum capacity. With multiple new drug laws, it has been made somewhat easy for police to arrest anyone who is involved with drugs and the majority of arrests have come on minority races and people of low class. While the laws were not intended to focus on a certain race or class, the results have showed that this “war on…

Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa cartel is an international drug cartel syndicate made up of several different organizations. The US intelligence community considers the cartel the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world. They are known for being extremely violent in expanding its drug business using murder, kidnapping and bribery as a tool. In Mexico, many cartels and drug organization have their origins in the state of Sinaloa. The families that lived in this region during the…

explains how interconnected the drug cartels are to both America's and Mexico's economies. In fact, Mexican citizens prefer working drug-cartel jobs as informants or mules, rather than working legal jobs, because they make better money. On the higher end, businessmen and cartel bosses spend the illegal drug money on purchases in America. Thus, effectively pouring the money into the economies, despite the fact that the huge amounts of money profitted from selling illicit drugs is untaxed and…

that 'the war on doping is being won.’” Doping in professional sports gives players an unfair advantage. The problem with drug testing is that it's not always effective and people can get past them. These drugs make them feel better when they are using them but they aren't thinking about what will happen to their bodies in the future. Professional athletes should be drug tested so they don't have an advantage and so that they don't damage their body. Professional athletes should be drug tested…

Mass incarceration also creates a social hierarchy with Blacks being at the bottom because of being labeled a drug addict/user and a criminal, which in Rawls’ perspective is an injustice because its placing certain individuals higher than others. Rawls would view the situation the same as he viewed distribution of wealth and income, except the moral inquiry would…

Liberal Drug Approach In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs and four decades later the United States has spent $1 trillion (Branson). What do we have to show for it as Americans? The world’s largest prison population at 2.3 million people and more than half a million of the inmates are imprisoned due to drug violations (Branson). About 460,000 more people in jail and prison today than in 1980 all from drug related crimes (Branson). The United States has the strictest drug…

people, and drug addicts unfairly and for far too long. Mass incarceration is a system that captures people, then labels them as criminals and felons, keeping them locked up for extensive periods of times only to release them into the underclass where there is no hope to achieve higher living. Since the introduction of the War on Drugs in the 1970’s by Ronald Reagan, where “over four decades, the [Drug Policy Agency} says, American taxpayers have dished out $1 trillion on the drug war”, the…

President Nixon declared a “war on drugs”, and increased the size of federal drug control agencies. To help combat the use of drugs, mandatory sentencing was implemented, which granted for a first time offense a minimum sentence of 5 years in a federal prison. By the Reagan presidency, the number of non-violent drug offenders imprisoned skyrocketed from 50,000 to over 400,000 by 1997 (“A Brief History of the Drug war”). As a result of the incarcerations many families have…