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    An Unfair Drug War

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    Drug production and drug dealing today has become a substantial source of revenue. Whether for making up budget deficits or for the enrichment of certain individuals‚ population groups‚ firms or even countries‚ drugs are distributed worldwide. Drugs also involve economically marginalized sectors of the population‚ such as peasant producers or some small-scale drug dealers‚ criminal organizations or certain closely-knit sectors of society in the world of business or State institutions. The recycling

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    War on Drugs Research

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    Drug use and abuse is an expensive problem in the United States‚ both financially and socially. The War on Drugs has been an ongoing effort to combat drug abuse‚ drug use and crime associated with the drug trade. It’s a war without a clear enemy. Anything waged against a shapeless‚ intangible noun can never truly be won — President Clinton’s drug czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey said as much in 1996. (TIME 2009) Despite the trillions of dollars waged on the war on drugs and the countless arrest made related

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    Winning The War On Drugs

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    The War on Drugs is described as‚ the campaign of prohibition of drugs‚ it has the stated aim of reducing the illegal drug trade. The number of drug arrest have rise and now it accounts for almost a quarter of the people locked up in America‚ however‚ drug use rates have remained steady. The War on Drugs have been going on for almost 40 years‚ that means that means that trillions of dollars have been spend and this "War" has been innerective. The drug use rate has not declined‚ but many people who

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    There has been a debate on legalizing drug use for quite some time now. Most legalizers are liberals‚ and their views on drug policy are consistent with liberal views on other issues. This paper will outline the liberal view of legalizing drugs. Liberals do not generally trust individuals to make reasonable choices about drug use‚ and they think government should adopt policies that attempt to discourage drug use. But liberal legalizers do not like using police power to achieve this goal‚ especially

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    Mexican drug war

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    Mexican Drug War Background ! Mexico has had a reputation for trafficking drugs to the United States and South America since the major trafficking started in the early 1960s‚ but the drug trade between the United States and Mexico started in 1933 when the United States revoked the alcohol prohibition. It is easy for the drug cartels and traffickers to move the drugs through Mexico because of its prime location between the United States and South America. Also do to the cartels in nearby

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    The Drug War in Mexico

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    Mexican Drug War Alex Woodman The drug trade in Mexico has flourished since World War II. The drug lords and kingpins have as much power or more power than the government. In 2006‚ Felipe Calderon took office as Mexico’s President. His first act as President was to declare war on the drug cartels. Since then‚ the violence towards government officials and military/police personnel has increased dramatically. Although cries from the citizens of Mexico call for the violence to stop‚ the government

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    2010 History of the War on Drugs The war on drugs has been an ongoing fight that many presidents and foreign allegiances have tried to stop the trafficking‚ distribution and use of illegal drugs into the United States and around the world. Policy and laws have been created and maintained and changed to try and prevent illegal drugs being made in other countries as well as the United States and from being brought across the borders into the United States. The punishment for the drug traffickers and

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    Mexican War On Drugs

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    emerging drug trade which has become a threat to security of the people. The economy has sputtered‚ and workers’ wages have been ravaged since NAFTA. To recover from the drastic effects of this decade‚ Mexico must aim to achieve political and social stability and security by ending the war on drugs‚ and eliminating NAFTA to bolster the economy. Mexico must look to end the war on drugs as it has not proven to be effective. Mexico has deployed troops across the country in the war on drugs. Despite

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    Anti Drug War

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    Anti Drug War In this chapter it asks do I feel that the anti- drug laws are adequate. My reply to that is no it is not. The legislation needs to implement harsher laws that will prevent the drug problems that the United States is currently having. At this point in time it’s the Mexican Drug Cartel’s that are the main problem. The Mexican Drug Cartel’s have been around for many of years as early as the 1980’s till present day. (Article: Mexican Drug War Wikipedia.com). My opinion

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    Ideology Of War On Drugs

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    Ideology of War on Drugs: Legally or Illegally Attempts to restrict something on which restrictions pose virtually no effects is a complete failure and therefore spending millions of dollars yearly is a pure example how American government operates on drug prohibitions. Here‚ we have drug users‚ non-users‚ producers and fighters to stop it. Actions of these subjects simply collide in deep misunderstandings creating domino effect of tragedies where greed versus existence comes on stage

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