Select an article from a news magazine or research journal where data is displayed in a graph. Describe the data displayed in the graph and what conclusion you could draw. Be sure to include a reference to the article that you used.…
and prevention was reduced. Funds given to the Department of Education were cut from $14 million to $3 million from 1981 to 1984 (Alexander 33). Reagan employed a Southern Strategy where he promised tax cuts to the rich and punishment for the crack users (DuVernay). In his speech to the Nation on the campaign against abuse, Ronald Reagan gives a rundown of the drug war (Reagan 1). Reagan addresses the American public as a concerned parent, grandparent and neighbor, declaring drugs an enemy concerning the young people who their future demands on (Regan 2). Reagan stated that drugs are killing the children, menacing the society, and threatening their values (Reagan 2). Reagan announces smokeable cocaine, or crack as the new epidemic that must…
Although Richard Nixon first declared a “war on drugs” in 1971, the war escalated during the Reagan presidency and shifted its focus from treatment toward incarceration and law enforcement. As George Moss and Evan Thomas explain, Reagan came to Washington “committed to waging a war on drugs and bringing the international drug trade under control” in 1981. Thanks to the rise of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia and other cartels in Latin America during the 1980s, illegal drug trade networks flourished, and America became “the world’s major consumer of illicit drugs.” This increased usage of drugs led to many social crises, including heightened urban crime and health problems, which encouraged both the Reagan administration and private groups…
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The drug war has delivered significantly unequal outcomes crosswise over racial gatherings, showed through racial segregation by law authorization and lopsided drug war wretchedness endured by groups of shading. In spite, of the fact, that rates of drug utilize and offering are practically identical crosswise over racial lines, non-white individuals are much more inclined to be halted, looked, captured, indicted, sentenced and detained for drug law infringement than are…
The 1960s were marked by a plethora of social and political changes, with the counterculture movement being one of the most widely historicized and familiar aspects out of this period. While this movement did contribute to positive changes in some ways, a rise in drug usage amongst young people occurred. Due to the inherent dangers drugs impose on the individual, concerns were raised throughout the country. In response, President Richard Nixon moved to enact legislation hoping to curb drug usage. This initial “war on drugs” was controversial and characterized by very little success.…
“For many the American dream has become a nightmare.” This quote by Bernie Sanders tells us how he feels about America’s state right now. He wants to make the people of our country have power again and be free. Bernie Sanders should become our next president because of his ideals and his stance on marijuana, immigration, and the college for all act.…
Many people would claim that President Richard Nixon started the war on drugs. Although it is less well-known today that the Nixon Administration also repealed the federal 2–10-year mandatory minimum sentences for possession of marijuana and started federal demand for reduction programs. He also endorsed drug-treatment programs, and that Nixon only made an effort of continuation towards the states original acts of prohibition dating back to 1905-1914. Even with these programs the U.S. still has a high incarceration count for drug related arrest when compared to other countries. So, are these methods effective for reducing addiction, or is there a better alternative to the war on drugs?…
Many have said that the war on drugs is a failure and needs reform. Others have lamented that the war on drugs is a war that cannot be won and valuable resources and money has been used up. Drugs are cheaper, purer, and more easily obtained than ever before. The war on drugs is futile. This paper will discuss why the United States should end the war on drugs.…
Office of National Drug Control Policy. National Drug Control Budget: FY 2014 Funding Highlights. Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President, April 2013. Web. Feb. 19. 2014…
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In this paper I will evaluate America's War on Drugs. More specifically, I will outline our nation's general drug history and look critically at how Congress has influenced our current ineffective drug policy. Through this analysis I hope to show that drug prohibition policies in the United States, for the most part, have failed. Additionally, I will highlight and evaluate the influences acting on individual legislators' decisions to continue support for these ineffective policies as a more general demonstration of Congress' role in the formation of our nation's drug policy strategy. Finally, I will conclude this analysis by outlining the changes I feel necessary for future progress to be made. Primary among these changes are a general promotion of drug education and the elimination of our current system's many de-legitimating hypocrisies.…
“Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. And I ain't never did a crime I ain’t have to do.” -Tupac. The war on drugs targeted many communities particularly those of color. Throughout America, people of color have always been the target. In the 1980’s and 90’s the drug war increased drastically. The war on drugs was just another reason to fuck with the people of color. The United States constantly targets minorities, and the crisis of the drug war increased the prison population causing even more coas in the country.…
Over the past four decades, drugs use remains a very serious problem in the US, even though the drug war has made these substances less accessible. There are a lot of supporting views for the motion that government should legalize drugs, the reasons being: to spend less on war drugs, to make drugs more accessible to people and scientists in need of drugs, to collect tax revenues, etc. Two well-known professors and authors, Michael Huemer and Gabor Maté, argue, in their articles, against America’s drug war with two different approaches. Even though some might agree on Huemer’s point of legalizing drugs on the basis of individual freedom, I noticed some claims that I believe are not moral to the Kantian and Utilitarian point of views. On the…
The Mexican drug war has been a long and deadly fight between the Mexican government and the cartels in Mexico. Most of the war has been fought on the border of Mexico and the U.S.making small border communities ghost towns. The reason why these people are leaving is because of the extreme violence this war has brought on to Mexico. From 2006 to 2012 there has been 63,000, deaths related to drug violence in Mexico. The war has left its mark on the people and on the government of Mexico. The government and the people of Mexico have been affected by this long war. .…