War On Drugs Essay

But at the end of the 1990s the Colombian government implemented stronger policies to control the drug flow. This reduced the ability of the Colombian cartels to oversee and secure the international narcotic routes. After the Colombian participation diminished new gangs and ringleaders appeared, mostly from Mexico. Many of the previous Transportistas were arrested and the gang network was completely remodeled. New activities appeared which were also followed by violence and even more…

Many of today’s illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, amongst other substances and psychedelics, currently used in society were once in fact legal many thousands of years ago. Several of these drugs (if not all) were commonly practiced for medicinal and spiritual reasons. However, in this day and age, when people think of ‘drugs’ negative connotations of its supposed danger and “badness” perpetuated from the media began to appear. Drugs and drug policy have always been up for hot debate…

Drug addiction has become a burden on our society. In fact, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2010 about 23. 5 million Americans were addicted to drugs and alcohol. Furthermore, drug addiction takes a huge toll on the economy. Every year, a huge amount of money is used to pay for treatments, or even worse, to buy drugs. That’s why many scientists have conducted experiments and research in order to understand more about drug addiction, its causes, and how to get rid…

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs is an interesting novel where Johann Hari, the author tells his story of being drawn to addicts and recovering addicts. His feeling of being drawn to these addicts made it possible for him to travel all over the world. I am going to break this novel into three different themes that I saw Hari make. The first theme that I thought was interesting and not surprising is that race plays a huge part in who is to be arrested and or…

Drug courts emerged as a direct response from the government, after they introduced and escalated their campaign of the War on Drugs in the 1980s and 1990s. This era exposed bipartisan support of the enforcement of drug laws, and its effect on low level drug offenses and harsher criminal penalties for possession and/or sale of small amounts of substances. Due to this, millions of cases flooded the court system, charging people with minor drug law violations, drastically increasing the number of…

Community Effects Drug Enforcement and Societal Costs Drug enforcement is seen by society as a attributing to having a positive effect on society. The idea is someone is doing something that is illegal and said person should be caught and pay an appropriate price for their maleficence to society. However, for every action, there is a reaction and that is not always positive. The 1980’s were a time where the “War on Drugs” was declared by than President Ronald Reagan (8). It was during the…

Will legalizing all drugs causes an epidemic of drug users and bring the world to chaos or will it bring peace to the war on drugs. In 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs and since then there has been a small decline in drug users (Laqueur, 2015, 767). This paper will focus on how legalizing drugs may be beneficial to drug users. If drugs were legal, drug addicts or users will not go to jail for possession of drugs and gang wars may be a thing of the past. Drug addicts will be able to obtain…

comes to people who struggle with drug addiction, but locking them away in cages doesn’t solve the problem, it only makes things worse. According to former Federal Prosecutor Paul Butler “Imprisoning young non-violent drug offenders with murderers and rapists was like sending them to finishing school for criminals. The drug war costs billions of dollars we cannot afford, and it’s just…

Drug trafficking between the United States and Latin America have create a mass of violence between both countries. In the last years, both governments have declared a “war on drugs” with the idea that drug consumption and drug trafficking will stop or will get control. Drug trafficking has brought blood and pain to society. According to surveys drug trafficking is affecting more young adult than other groups. According to Matthew Jenner, “drug trafficking is the most crucial and most dangerous…

In the United States, drug use and poverty come in a pair. It’s difficult to understand why this occurs, it is known that there is a correlation between the two. In a considerable amount of cases, substance abuse and poverty can be causal. The causation and correlation between poverty and substance abuse is a complex relationship that relates to low job opportunities, lack of community resources (such as substance abuse agencies), mental or physical disabilities, and lack of a solid support…