Persuasive Essay On War On Drugs

The systematic scheduling of drugs in the United States is arbitrary which leads to a discriminative social injustice. Some psychedelic substances such as Psilocybin are schedule 1 drugs, while alcohol and nicotine are legal. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) both alcohol and nicotine are proven to be harmful and addictive (2017). Conversely, Psychedelic substances have not been proven to be addictive. This equates to a social injustice that discriminates over someone who may prefer the effects of psilocybin to nicotine, even under the science that has shown nicotine and alcohol have a higher potential for abuse. Unfortunately, many political factors come into play regarding the legal status of drugs and industries such as the pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol industries, who harbor the most money and have an influence in the legality of drugs whether they are safe or not. While legalizing psychedelic substances would most likely cut into profits for these large industries they would bring about economic benefits as well.

A controversial subject many Americans are constantly at battle over is legalizing drugs. Some experts have the opinion that drugs should be legalized for medical treatment, and for help with severe illness. Other experts argue that this will have a bad effect due to overdosing and addiction, and also the adverse affect on teens. I do not think that drugs should be legalized but they should allow people with serious medical conditions to use these illegal drugs. Legalizing drugs would only create and even bigger drug abuse situation, and especially for juveniles. Legalizing drugs would also create the question of what to do with criminals who are already incarcerated for this offense. There are surveys, which give statistics on crime, and how crime rates are affected by the use of drugs. For example, there is one survey called the “National

The legal prohibition on most psychoactive drugs has been in place in this country for the better part of a century. This policy of prohibition, however, has never been based on reason or careful consideration, but on the paranoia of a small segment of society and the indifferent willingness of the majority to accept this vocal minority’s claims without question. Outlawing any use of a particular drug is a violation of the basic freedom of individuals to act as they please in their private lives. However, even if one does not accept this belief, an objective analysis of the United States’ history of prohibition clearly shows that attempts to enforce this policy have done far more harm than good,

Appearing in the 1970s, a campaign was introduced to forward the prohibition of drugs and reduce the large illegal drug trade. Dubbed the "War on Drugs", this movement has been unsuccessful. In a study produced by The International Centre for Science and Drug Policy states that "prices of heroin, cocaine and cannabis decreased by 81%, 80% and 86%, respectively, between 1990 and 2007, whereas average purity increased by 60%, 11% and 161%, respectively." Despite active government involvement, there will always be a demand of drugs in America. Legalization of these substances will end issues brought up by the War on Drugs, bring new economic opportunities, and reduce the prison population.

This paper will focus on ways to reduce or decriminalize substance abuse in America. The writer will also clearly identify the roles that the government and their contributions in regards to the War on Drugs and will discuss how the judicial system make profits on illegal drugs. In conclusion this paper will include methods that will help provide treatments to reduce substance abuse in our society

Through research and professional first hand account I will explain how the “War” on drugs has been a detrimental not only to drug users but the American society as a whole, and has ruined the lives of American people. While not having any effect on the use of illicit drugs or the flow of illicit drugs into America.

Imagine a world where drug use and drug related issues are no longer a problem in our current society. You could walk in your own city without having to see anyone use illegal drugs. The streets would be safer and the levels of drug use in the United Sates would almost be nonexistent. This is what the American government had in mind when the thought of war on drugs was first conceived. In 1986 President Reagan made it his number one priority to ensure that drugs were no longer going to be an existing problem in America. The War on Drugs was going to stop the production of drugs, disrupt the flow of drugs and even destroy the open-air market in inner cities (Cooper 1). Just the very idea of ending drug problems in America seemed palpable

In my past 27 years on this earth I have come to see lots of friends die or end up in jail. I now live and grown up in a place that may be considered to some to be a not so bad community to live in, but yet I constantly see people die from the illegal use of a substance so powerful, that people die and remorsefully kill others over. With this constant disregard for human life, I have come to ask myself how this did this all started. Where on earth did this beloved substance come from, a substance that is valued over human life, and honestly what can I positively do to make a positive change. Because I know we don’t grow it or make them ourselves here. So where is it coming from, who is making, bringing it to the community or

On Friday February 10, 2017, Kentucky Emergency Services responded to fifty-two calls that had come in regarding people overdosing on heroin. This calls started to heavily come in in about people overdosing beginning at midnight, through eight in the morning. In the past week, the Louisville emergency spokesman, Mitchel Burmeister, stated that there had been twenty-five reported overdoses from the same drug in a thirty-two hour span the week before.

It was just another hot sweaty day here in Townsville, two friends Hayden and Jake were enjoying a few beers when Jake asked Hayden Do you know how the war on drugs started, like really started. Hayden responded, no but by the sound of your tone, you do and I feel a story coming on. Well, lucky for you Hayden, I was learning about it at university the other day and I did some research on it, Jake replied. Well, in 1971 President Nixon had two enemies the hippies who were antiwar and black people. Knowing that he couldn't make being against the war or being black illegal, he had to come up with another way to target these people. So, a war was begun, a war we now call the war on drugs. Nixon decided to use the public's eye to associate cannabis with the hippies and heroin with the blacks, then bang criminalizing them both heavily. A smart, but inhumane way to disrupt these communities, raids on family homes, unfair arrests. That was also the year, the most harmless drug of all "Cannabis" was labelled a schedule one drug, the biggest joke ever played on humanity. War on drugs created from a lie has not worked, over the past 40 years we have seen all these anti-drugs slogans and programs rise and fall, they do not stop drug use they promote it. Why not drugs appeal to the teen rebels like us Jake laughed, a while back it used to be cannabis smoked and the odd pill popped, now we are seeing the drug Ice smoked and injected. You know what, Australia has now topped the charts with the highest rate for ice abused in the world, drug dealers soaking up all this money. This one crazy drug has consumed families, friendships and lives. Like old Jeremy, remember how he used to be the happiest kid in Kirwan High, one hit was all it took for him to be hooked and he became a different person, now he's in prison doing time for armed robbery. You know Throughout the 80's and 90's the rates of imprisonment skyrocketed, the amount people who were sent to prison for nonviolent drug-related crimes went from 50 thousand in 1980 to 400 thousand by 1997, imagine what it is now in 2017 man. Remember back in 2013 old Premier Newman started his war with the outlaw bikers, put all those laws in, all those personal attacks. Well, think

In recent years the use of drugs has become prominent and it is the cause of the recent deaths in the United States. According to Macionis “[this year]… more than 50,000 people were dying each year from causes related to abuse of such drugs. This annual figure represents just about the same number of deaths to U.S. citizens that resulted from the ten-year Vietnam War”. We are in need of a serious change and with the help of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, we may limit the use of drugs.

How many drugs can you think of? Most people don't know the difference between two white powders. One of them is great at making your cake rise, while the other is extremely deadly. Heroin, which is very addictive opiod drug, a modified version of morphine, is one of many illegal drugs in Canada. Many of them are extremely harmful and toxic to the body. Do you really believe that possession these dangerous drugs should result in a small penalty? Drugs that could be illegally used but not get penalized for it?. So think about it, do you genuinely think substances like this, should be allowed to the general public? So why don't we all get high?

The so-called “War on Drugs,” as declared by the Nixon administration in the signing of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, marked the beginning of the current era of mandatory minimum sentencing, racism, privatized prisons, and a powerful constituency that profits as a result of the prohibition of drugs. Psychoactive substances have been apart of the human experience as long as humans have walked the earth. There is little hope that drug production will ever be curtailed, so long as there is a demand; a demand that has remained steady even though it has been forty years since the beginning of said war. As Judge James P. Gray from the Superior Court of Orange County has so plainly put it: “Where did this policy

One hundred and eighty three thousand is quite a massive number. That is approximately 36,600 five gallon buckets of paint. It is around 140,544,045 teaspoons of molasses and amounts to 23,424,000 ounces of orange juice. However, what if I told you this number represents something a bit more sinister than just day to day items. 183,000 is the amount of deaths accredited to opiate overdose in 2015. Not only is this amount massive in size, the number of opiate deaths rise each day. This is not just some minor crisis, this is a full blown epidemic. Now, it would be great to develop a solution, a “fix all.” It would be great to stop drug usage altogether. However, we cannot just get rid prescription pharmaceuticals completely and hope for the harmful usage to stop. It would bring pain to many people who use them correctly and depend on them daily. What is unrevealed to me, and everyone affected by this widespread issue, is how can we stop addiction from forming. How can we prohibit from people having the urge to take just one more pill? In my lifetime I would love to see the “unknown” territory addiction be curbed. I would love to see a permanent solution be developed in order to stop overdosing from happening. It is quite of personal importance to me because it may just save lives - the lives of both my fourteen year old brother and older cousin.

The War on Drugs is a current conflict that has been going on for many decades. It is a movement organized by the United States Government in attempts to reduce the amount of illegal drug trafficking in the country. The War on Drugs enforced strict drug policies that are intended to reduce both the production, distribution, and consumption of illegal drugs. The term was first used by President Richard Nixon, during a press conference concerning the nationwide drug abuse issue, in which Nixon announces to the Congress that drug abuse was, “public enemy number one”. Illegal drugs are certainly dangerous; addiction and death are two but many factors as a result of drugs. However, even though the War on Drugs might sounds justifiable, in truth, it is actually making the drug issue worst in the country.