War on Drugs

informative video titled “The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail.” In the video Jay Z addressed the discrepancies of the drug war and its negative affects on society. The issues that were spoken about in the video have been the main points made in the anti-drug war argument. There has been many studies done on this topic which produced many supportive results. However, there still people who do not see the drug war as a failure. In his article, “4 Reasons Why Ending the War On Drugs Would Be a Huge…

A War on the People The war on drugs has been nothing but a failure. For nearly 45 years, this seemingly endless war has brought nothing but mass incarceration, violence, wasteful spending, and fear to the American people. Over one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) dollars invested in the policy and it’s expected results have not shown. Drug use and addiction are just as prominent as they have been before the policy and have not shown any correlation to the time and money put into enforcing this…

June 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Today “an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older—9.4 percent of the population—had used an illicit drug in the past month.” It has been slightly over 40 years since the war on drugs began and yet the country still finds itself in the midst of a drug epidemic. “An estimated 22.7 million Americans (8.6 percent) needed treatment for a problem related to drugs [...] but only about 2.5 million people (0.9 percent) received…

The war on drugs was first recognized on June 18th, 1971 in a press conference given by President Richard Nixon (Booth, K.). It was declared that the war on drugs was a public enemy because of the potential harm it had on society. The following years led to the establishment of new drug enforcement groups in order to fight against drug trades (Frontline). Since then, the distribution of drugs has gone underground and on the black market and become a global industry that generates violence that…

Facts On The War On Drugs Imagine you are sitting at home or your workplace with one thought coursing through your mind, that you're being accused of doing drugs and have to take a test what are you going to do? Well here’s what you can do, the fourth amendment talks about us and our right to freedom from unwarranted searches. With many drug tests could also turn up a false positive. And in most cases you can turn down a search warrant but it’s not always a good idea. Some say that drug…

Nixon and the War on Drugs "Woolley, John and Peters, Gerhard. Richard Nixon: Special Message to the Congress On Drug Abuse Prevention And Control." 2017. Presidency.Ucsb.Edu. (Accessed June 16, 2017)http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3048. The contents of the website, which is government owned, is the message President Nixon sent to his Congress about the war on drugs in America. In the content, Nixon proposes new measures to effect for curbing of the drug menace in the U.S. and presents…

of National Drug Control Policy, gave his speech at Harvard University, former Vice President George H. W. Bush was beginning to involve himself in the media coined term “War on Drugs”. This evidently led to several academics to heavily criticize the effectiveness of making several drugs illegal, who Bennett called the “Intellectuals.” Bennett, in response to the criticism of these intellectuals, passionately claims that these individuals do not provide any practical reasons for drugs to be…

individual, they implemented The War on Drugs in 1971 and purposely attacked minorities, by placing cheap, deadly, addictive, drugs, in poor communities, causing the…

the countries’ dependence on the U.S. (LeoGrande). The U.S.’s economic aid has largely been reduced, except for aid to the poorest countries or for the war on drugs, which has also diminished the U.S.’s control of the area, aided by the increasing political maturity of Latin America (LeoGrande). The U.S.’s power is still pushed through the war on drugs, however, the fact that Latin America is heading in the direction of legalization may take away the U.S.’s…

University by the name of Danielle Allen wrote “How the War on Drugs Creates Violence”. Allen makes a solution to the war on drugs, she emphasizes that making drugs a public health problem will then decrease the incarcerations, homicides, and poor education rates. If drugs were being tried like a health issue, not a crime, the rates of everything else that is carried on with the drug use would drop. The quantitative amount of illegal drugs that is spent by Americans as one of our leisure’s and…