The Ineffectiveness Of The War On Drugs And The Drug War

The crisis in the drug war has intensified over the past decade and has left many families torn and separated, many of the jails are overloaded from many drug convicts, and lately has increased five-hundred percent over the past year. Although the Des Moines... Register used pathos, logos, and labeling to describe the current drug war, there are not enough rhetorical appeals to do justice to the horror of drug trafficking. Hence millions of Americans have been incarcerated due to the effects of drug trafficking that has been brought over by the migrants, who’ve been forced to traffic the drugs in order to let their families survive, This is often the reality for many of the evicted migrants, and hooked drug addicts that are arrested when caught

Today the number are in the war on drug is a huge failure with devastated unintended consequences, it lead to mass incarceration in the us, to corruption, to political destabilization, and violence in latin america, asia, and africa. To systemic human right abuse across the world.”-Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

The American “War on Drugs” war created to keep an exorbitant amount of people behind bars, and in a subservient status. First, America has a storied history when it comes to marijuana use. However, within the last 50 years legislation pertaining to drug use and punishment has increased significantly. In the modern era, especially hard times have hit minority communities thanks to these drug laws. While being unfairly targeted by drug laws and law enforcement, minorities in America are having a difficult time trying to be productive members of society.

The first thing to note, Johann Hari uses pathos to emotionally connect to the viewer, so he can make drugs to not be viewed as

This is written as if not a call to action, then a call to galvanize. The purposes of this report is to enable readers to through empirical and contextual description see the war on drugs for what is really is: a public relations ploy whose end results are not fighting drugs, but

In the past forty years, the United States has spent over $2.5 trillion dollars funding enforcement and prevention in the fight against drug use in America (Suddath). Despite the efforts made towards cracking down on drug smugglers, growers, and suppliers, statistics show that addiction rates have remained unchanged and the number of people using illegal drugs is increasing daily (Sledge). Regardless of attempts to stem the supply of drugs, the measure and quality of drugs goes up while the price goes down (Koebler). Now with the world’s highest incarceration rates and greatest illegal drug consumption (Sledge), the United States proves that the “war on drugs” is a war that is not being won.

Today the number are in the war on drug is a huge failure with devastated unintended consequences, it lead to mass incarceration in the us, to corruption, to political destabilization, and violence in latin america, asia, and africa. To systemic human right abuse across the world.”-Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

When my audience hears “War on Drugs” they may assume it is a worthy endeavor because drug abuse is such a pervasive problem that affects many families. I must dispel the assumption that the “War on Drugs” dealt with the drug abuse problem or reduced drug sales. I can do this by demonstrating that there is plenty of evidence showing that the “War on Drugs” did not do what it set out to do and is therefore not an effective approach to the problem of drug trade and abuse. Additionally the imprisoning of citizens, even if it is done unjustly, does not reduce crime at comparable rates. Research from Harvard found that during the “War on Drugs” in state prisons there was a 66% increase in prison population but crime was only reduced by 2-5% and it cost the taxpayers 53 billion dollars (Coates, 2015). The fact the violent crime went up all through Nixon’s administration while he rallied for “Law & Order” and policing became more severe furthers this argument (Alexander, 2012). Four out five drug arrests are low-level possession charges as well, demonstrating that police policies aren’t dismantling the drug system just punishing addicts (Alexander, 2012). What’s more, drug abuse in America have remained stagnate and even increased in some instances even when billions of dollars have been pumped into the program (National

The war on drugs is a movement that had started in the 1970s and is still evolving from today. Over the years, people have had mixed reactions to the campaign, ranging from full-on support to claims that it has racist and political objectives. People who are affected by drugs are the people you use them and have gotten addicted to the substances that they started using for medical or recreational purposes. The war on drugs has many challenges attached to it but there are five possible solutions that can hopefully end the war on drugs.

Drugs have been a problem in the country for a long time. Issues with drugs even existed in ancient times. However, through the War on Drugs, the media created a panic about the issue, making citizens believe drug abuse was an exponentially growing new epidemic in the United States. Although the War on Drugs was declared in 1982 and was intended to reduce the rates of drug abuse in the US, America’s drug problem increased dramatically over the next years (Bagley, 1988).

What if I told you that a crusade against narcotics has resulted in an overdose epidemic? This has been exactly what the United States Drug War has done. The War on Drugs is considered to have started in 1914 with the ban on opium and cocaine. Prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s is considered to be an important chapter of the War on Drugs. But it was not until June 1971 that President Nixon officially declared a "war on drugs." He enforced this by drastically expanding federal drug control agencies and mandatory minimum sentencing for those arrested for drug crimes. Defenders of the drug war assert that zealous enforcement is the correct way of dealing with America's drug dilemma. However, it has only accomplished increasing the prison population by putting nonviolent offenders behind bars. It has also done nothing to lessen the overdose crisis. This catastrophic, failing war has to meet its end, as it is having many tragic effects such as the production of stronger, deadlier drugs, increased drug use, and has been wildly ineffectual throughout history.

More than 45 years ago President Richard Nixon announced and declared the nation is at war, that war was the "War on Drugs". Nancy Reagan campaigned heavily in the fight against drug use as well; her fight was that of teaching young children the slogan of “Just Say No”. The goals of the criminal justice system in the war on drugs have been a never ending fight against the sale of illicit drugs and that of combating drug abuse. We will discuss the increased resources spent on law enforcement and rehabilitation while making an attempt in understanding

The War on Drugs has ravaged America for years, causing innumerable problems. In her chapter, “The Cruel Hand”, Michelle Alexander explores the consequences that the War on Drugs has had on African-Americans. Alexander utilizes emotional stories, facts, and United States policy to support her argument that the War on Drugs has been an adverse experience for America. Though her arguments are strong, Alexander may have benefited from the use of scientific evidence as Richard DeGrandpre utilized in his book, The Cult of Pharmacology. DeGrandpre includes data from drug studies conducted on animals, revealing misperceptions that can be placed upon drugs because of their name.

In the book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, the author, Johann Hari, takes us through the lives of three peoples’ war on drugs. Throughout the book, he allows us to follow their stories from beginning to end with their war on drugs. Hari takes reality and puts in into a fictional form to add to their stories. Hari talks about the approach that has been taken throughout the past 100 years to get rid of drugs, even though the approach failed. Throughout the book, Hari also argues that drugs have done a lot of damage to our society.

Upon the reality of ever-present street violence rests the pieces, struck together with the unhinged furor of human suffering, of a truth that has come to pass unnoticed. It is while staring straight into the visceral scorn of substance abuse that humans learn it: that addiction is not merely some crime or failure of character and morals, but rather a neurotic compulsion motivated from feelings of alienation. The notion that drugs should be deemed, as Richard Nixon and Felipe Calderon insisted, “public enemy number one” is misguided at best, and profoundly immoral at its extremes. It cannot be sustained that the physical object that a drug, or drugs in general, are themselves criminal offences,