The War On Drug War

The drug war is an all out war between drug cartels, and the governments of the usa and mexico. It has been going for more than 40 year, but it has been a things since the nineteenth century since drug was trafficked from one place to another. In the 1960s drug was a common thing in usa whether legal or not it was a for form symbol for many from rebellion toward the government, social upheaval and even political dissent until the 1971s when it became a bit harder to obtain the drug because of the many laws that came when nixon became president.

Thousands upon thousands of lives have been taken due to the huge demand for drugs crossing from Mexico into the United States. The murder rate is extremely high, and has caused so much chaos between both countries because of this. Drug dealers in the United States contact drug dealers in Mexico, and vice versa, to cross the drugs between borders illegally. A high percentage of the time, either of the drug dealers from both sides will have a scape goat swim the border while carrying high amounts of drugs with them, or will attempt to cross it over smuggled in a vehicle. In Mexico, it is extremely corrupt and even the law enforcement is involved in the crossing of drugs illegally. This being done causes so much conflict

The American Government has passed and encouraged legislation that intentionally criminalized and incarcerated black citizens. During the 1960’s, drugs became a symbol of rebellion against society and politics. The rising epidemic of drugs plagued the country which prompted President Nixon to launch the “War on Drugs” campaign. Nixon increased the presence and funding of federal drug control agencies and enforced mandatory minimum sentencing. However in 2016, one of Nixon’s former aides, Domestic Policy Chief John Ehrlichman, revealed the war on drugs targeted blacks and hippies. He stated "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people..we knew we couldn't make it illegal

The Mexican drug war has been going on for many decades now affecting many generations. Drug trafficking has gain more power by its sinister leaders that maintain power at all cost. This affects how mexico is perceived in the United States and rest of the world. The drug cartels have been taking advantage of Mexicans poor education rates to persuade young Mexican males to joying their cartel in order to keep power. As longs the main leader aren't capture the cartels are going to keep on controlling Mexico. The Mexican drug war has been going on for about two decades creating such a prosperous business for its leader and main partnerships. This has created a society in which people live in fear and consternation since the cartels have started a fight to be the most powerful and dominating cartel in Mexico. The Mexican government priority shouldn't be a reform on its education programs to try preventing its youth to fall on hands of the deadly cartels.

What started this so called “War on Drugs,” and why was it started? Drugs were first known to be used recreationally in the early nineteenth century. The drug most widely used then was marijuana, which before the Civil War was a major source of income for farmers in America (Casa Palmera). It wasn’t until 1971 that a “war” against drugs was started by President Nixon (DPA), when he stated that drugs were, “public enemy number one in America” (WBGU PBS). He held the belief that in order to stop the increase in use of drugs, it was, as he stated, “necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive” (Stanford University). This seemed like a great idea at the time, but since then, new drugs have been developing every day, while the old laws stay in place.

The Mexican cartels drug war have been an ongoing situation in Mexico’s society for years. The history behind the start of these cartels and how they affect society in Mexico is very important. The most prominent and influential Mexican cartels today are The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Los Zetas Cartel, and the most powerful and notorious, The Sinaloa Cartel. Led by drug lords who themselves are ruthless and powerful, Cartels are very violent criminal organizations. Mexican cartels known for being some of the worst criminal organizations also do good things for society. Obviously doing them for the advantage for themselves there’s no reason for multiple sides in history.

On the other hand, from 2000 to 2010, both countries faced similar conflicts but each with their own purpose and background. For example, in 2006 Mexico declared war against the 7 Mexican cartels. This war was the first time that Mexico declared war on drugs. In this war, approximately 164,000 people have been a victim of homicide due to drug conflict (Shirk, 2011). In 2007 according to U.S Government estimates, approximately 15,500 metric tons of marijuana and an unknown number of Methamphetamine were produced in 2007 and exported primarily to the United States (Schaefer, Bahney, Riley, 2009). Mexico in this war was experiencing one of the most horrible and bloody wars of its time. Mexico was fighting the drugs cartels that were strongly armed

The Mexican Drug War was a sad time when Mexico was trying to have firearms, tobacco, alcohol, etc... come over the border into their country illegally. During this time many lives were lost and sadly forgotten.

Mexico is currently the largest foreign supplier of methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, and heroin to the United States. Corruption in Mexico’s political system has allowed drug trade operations to flourish and for cartels to become lethal and powerful forces. Along with the influx of drugs, the wave of violence that followed President Calderon’s declaration of war on drug trafficking in 2006 has taken an estimated 164,000 lives as of July 2015.2 The United States has been waging a war on drugs for over 40 years. President Nixon was the first president to declare a war on drugs in June 1971 to combat a rise in

Drug Wars. When people hear the term “Drug Wars” they think that the cause of all the Drugs and Violence flowing through into the United States, is all Mexico’s fault, that Mexico is the cause of so many deaths and a War that the United States thinks it’s “Winning”, but they are not even making a little dent. Interestingly enough, Mexico is not the only cause of this War going on around the Border, The United States plays a big role around the Drug Wars as well.

The war on drugs has been all over the world for the past several decades, country to country and region to region. When you really think about it each and every place at one point in time has had the trouble of facing the many negatives that come along with drugs such as people becoming addicts, violence, and crime in general, drug lords, and a plethora of other problems. Handling these problems before they get out of hand are relatively important, because if not handled right the country, region, state, or local municipality could collapse at any given time. Mexico, who has been handling a drug war this past decade seems as if they are not getting better any time soon and serious repercussions will come of this if something doesn’t

America has long been fighting a war against drugs that has seen no end in sight, and the U.S.A isn’t the only country being affected by this War on Drugs. The US government needs to take a step back and re-examine it’s approach to the illegal drug trade. The small victories here and there, (a drug seizure or a captured drug-lord), that government-filtered news programs feed you, simply don’t compare to the social harm and collateral damage that comes from this War on Drugs. America’s policies on drug enforcement, have led to illegal drug cartels gaining immense wealth and power, overcrowded prison systems and violence and terrorism in Mexico/parts of the US. The cost in blood has become too high to ignore any longer. The simple fact of the matter is that it is not a winnable war and the expenses; monetary, emotionally and physically, resulting from American policies on illegal drugs, continue to be an extreme disadvantage to everybody. Maybe once our government understands this, it can direct its efforts towards what really matters; the health and security of its citizens and communities. Things need to change fast, for the current War on drugs can only continue its disturbing trends.

The United States has a long-standing history of dealing with people who abuse drugs within the criminal justice system. The war on drugs policy came out of the framework of youthful rebellion and social upheaval in the 1960s. Drug Policy Organization (2014) asserts that drugs became symbols of youthful rebellion and their political dissent towards the government at large. Within substance abuse policy in the United States, the pendulum continues to swing back and forth between the punitive and treatment approaches.

The war on drugs in the U.S. is mainly a supply-side war which targets drug importers and users in an attempt to cut the supply of illicit drugs instead of focusing on the rehabilitation of users which would help decrease the demand for illegal

The War On Drugs has lasted many years, including before it was officially called “War On Drugs.” The prohibition of drugs first got its start in the late 1800’s with anti-opium laws, focusing on chinese immigrants. This was common with the first anti-drug laws. It entirely about scientific based facts on what the effects or risks of the drugs, rather who was associated with the use of the specific drugs. For example, the anti-cocaine laws in the early 1900’s were directed at black men, and the anti- marijuana laws in the mid 1900’s into the 21st century, directed at Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans. Today, black and latino communities are susceptible to being profiled as heavy drug using neighborhoods.