Prohibition Party

More importantly, the Christian Democratic Union has held a dominant position in German politics for decades. This party has strong conservative ties and wields a significant amount of influence. This party also takes a hard-line stance on drugs by “Proactively engaging in drug plagued regions of the country in order to restrict the flow of supply and demand” (Verein Für Drogenpolitik 2006). The United Nations

of the life style this caused many women to start a prohibition movement that would ban the sale, movement, buying, and distributing of alcohol. This movement covered all ways of getting new alcohol but it did not make consuming the product illegal. This was a form of “grandfathering” the already bought alcohol or else the US would have had to pay each individual for the alcohol they had to turn in. Following the start of the prohibition in 1920, people started having what are known as “Speakeasy’s”

At the simplest level, mass incarceration is defined as the imprisonment of a large amount of people. However, that does not tell the whole story. The majority of people incarcerated are minorities, and although mass incarceration began as a system of unjust racial and social control, today it continues for many political reasons including government grants, swaying voter opinion, and for-profit prison revenue. The United States incarcerates more people, per capita, than any other nation in the

Though there are many studies to show that drug use amongst young people have become more tolerated, there is also a high number of the population that believe do not accept the deviant behaviour of regular drug use and support the prohibition on recreational drug use. This counter argument is supported by evidence from James Crouch in Opinium Surveys (2015), stating that in 2014 when 2000 UK adults were given a survey on drug legalisation, despite 33% of the population believing that recreational

War on Drugs Introduction In 1971, President Nixon created the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 commonly known as the War on Drugs. The war on drugs was implemented to combat production, distribution, and consumption of illegal drugs (Olaya & Angel, 2017). In 2007, law enforcement officers made approximately two million drug arrests in the United States (Potter, 2014). Supporters state that the war on drugs was successful because it lowered some drug users in the United

Thus, why artists and writers would use this to send their ideas on the prohibition of drugs through media. The imagery of drugs slowly shifted away from the morality of anti-drugs, then focused towards normalising illegal drug use as it approached the years 1960s and 1970s. The film Easy Rider (1969) establishes two white men

lower crime rates, and to stop the drug black market. As drugs have its disadvantages they would have a more beneficial leeway on us the people if used for more healthy and environmental reasons. Legalization of drugs can be used in medicine. The party drug “Magic Mushrooms” produce hallucinations, even when

There is an emerging revolution in global drug policies, with significant changes to the long-held western model of prohibition (Taylor, Buchanan and Ayres 2016), where policies to decriminalise recreational consumption are developing. 3,4methylenedioxymethamphetamine, with popular epithets MDMA and Ecstasy, is one such popular narcotic up for debate (McDowell and Kleber, 1994; RNZ 2015; Taylor et al., 2016). The National Institute on Drug Abuse (2013) estimates 26.2 percent of Americans have tried

The Legalization Drugs The dawn of the twenty first century has ushered in a new age of optimism and wonder. Despite the proclamations of television, all is not in well in our part of the world. Our societies have succumbed to the modern holy war on drugs. Being fought against our own citizens and citizens abroad, an international effort to eradicate drug production and use has undoubtedly failed leaving in its wake social unrest and political chaos. Assault, property crime, racial and economic

End the War on Drugs The war on drugs dates back to 1971, when President Richard Nixon first popularized it. His presidency and administration were primarily responsible for getting the ball rolling. Following his presidency, every administration has more or less doubled down on his stance on the war on drugs. It has become a hot political issue that politicians now use to swing votes by the use of “fear” and promises of “safety”. However, the reality is that we are not anymore safe than