Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

globalization activities and enjoying the ride. Drug traffickers have found ingenious ways to push their illegal drugs around the globe better than any nation trying to administer legal drugs. The war on drugs has only seemed to overload our prisons with small time dealers and users rather than the hardened criminals creating and moving the products in a global manner. With the trade being mostly a ghost operation, it has become a favored method of money laundering as well. According to Agnes France-Presse, a writer for commondreams.org, “nearly 400 billion dollars from drug money was pumped into the global economy in 1999 alone”. (France-Presse, 2000) With the economic boost this provides to countries, one can easily see…

Although there were some good effects of prohibition it mostly hindered rather than helped the advancement of society in the United States of America ranging from the encouragement of organized crime to the nation’s use of large amounts of government spending in a vain ungainly battle against drugs the few benefits of prohibition are far outweighed by the vast and negative consequences that it produces. The topic of prohibition is a very important one to the American populous because there is an…

Drug Wars: Positive Or Negative? Retired policeman Tony Ryan declares, “While we definitely have a problem with drugs in this country, we definitely have to have a change in the policy,” (Richard, 1). Drugs are defined as a broad base of substances with psychoactive effects divided into four categories which include tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs, and other drugs. Many currently illegal drugs, such as marijuana, coca, and psychedelics, have been used for thousands of years for both medical and…

Drug Importation and Information Drugs have been around for a long time, people have used them in many different ways. In this paper I will be telling you about how drugs will change your life, the history of drugs, and trafficking activity that evolves around drugs. Most people today have tried drugs, just to try them, which is bad. Drugs have been becoming more popular as the years go by. Trafficking is one of the easiest ways to get drugs from country to country. Many Mexican Cartels use…

Clearly, all of drugs are addictive and unfortunately are not hard to find. “I was addicted for seven years, I was getting them from my friends, well who I thought were friends, and now after rehab I can’t see them anymore,” said Stashak (Stashak 2014). Like Stashak, many people purchase these drugs off of their “friends” who are prescribed by a doctor or get them from someone else. For some people they receive them right from their physicians. “Illegal acquisition of prescription drugs for…

Is the war on drugs a complete failure of a policy that has not deterred drug use, has some racists roots, hurt innocents, ruined lives and is a waste of money? The policy has been in place for over forty years and we are no closer to ending it than we were forty years ago. Has the policy that has cost the United States over a trillion dollars yielded any results? According to an opt-ed by Buchanan, Julian “the war on drug is nothing but a war on drug users.” Even though it was in reference to…

spend money lobbying for, the continued criminalization of drugs. The continued criminalization of drugs is critical to the drug war, and includes strict punishments and sentences for those convicted of crimes involving drugs. It has been shown that groups such as private prisons, and prison guard unions lobby for strict punishments to increase incarceration, and reap the profits. These company’s contributions promote the war on drugs, by giving the state no incentive to scale back their…

Drug has existed since the beginning of American History. Drugs such as caffeine and alcohol has become part of American socialization, children grow up watching parents drinking alcohol. Most of the drug users uses drugs in social settings or due to peer pressure. In this society, there are many stigma and myths around drugs and drug abusers. Certain drug users, mostly Blacks and low income individuals, are often portrayed as murderer, abuser, thief. Anti-Drug laws did nothing, but increased…

argue. The freedom to use drugs. What one does in their personal life and home, including the use of drugs, should be accepted as morally permissible as long as no direct harm is done to others. Whether it be because of privacy, Utilitarianism, Mill’s Harm Principle, or just freedom in general, people have the liberty to fulfill their life to the standard they…

Starting in 1986, crack quickly grew into a super drug that was in the eyes of authorities (Congress) becoming an epidemic. The resulting legislation clearly has had an impact on the justice system and how it has functioned ever since (Kulze, 2015; Vagins & McCurdy, 2006). The issue of disparity in sentencing extends past cocaine and onto Amphetamine and Cathinone, the active ingredient in khat. The molecular structure between Cathinone and Amphetamine are almost identical, both are stimulants…