Kennedy (2003) called “Drug Wars in Black and White” and the second article is called “Street-Level Drug Law Enforcement” by Lorraine Mazerolle‚ David W. Soole and Sacha Rombouts in 2006. In addition‚ the last article is by David Dixon and Phillip Coffin (1999) called “Zero Tolerance Policing in Illegal Drug Markets” from the Drug and Alcohol Review. Summary Kennedy (2003) discusses the background of the war on drugs in 1920s and provides information that shows a difference of the drug wars being less punitive
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difficult to understand that the government is negotiating with the FARC‚ while this narco-guerrilla has continued hitting the country‚ they are still killing soldiers‚ civil population and drug trafficking. Since 1945‚ this group has committed a lot of massacres against the civil population‚ they have been drug trafficking worldwide‚ and also they have been killing members of the Armed forces indiscriminately. Besides the fact that the FARC will not deliver all of their weapons until the government
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War on Drugs Policy Proposal John Cox POL 300 June 5‚ 2011 Benjamin Webb Proposed Policy for Mexico and the United States The United States and Mexico are fighting what could be called a never-ending war‚ the war on the illegal drug trade. Drugs flow across the US-Mexico border seemingly unrestricted‚ even though both countries spend billions of dollars each year attempting to halt the flow of drugs. Drug cartels in Mexico operate with impunity‚ and have little regard for laws‚ regulations
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The international issue of drug cartels and the threats posed by drugs has been approached in many ways and have altered throughout its history. Its deleterious effects on citizens and national governments have been most brutally evident in Latin America. The expansion of drug cartels and their increasing authority and influence in Latin America posses various national and international threats. Additionally‚ the contradicting notions on the root of the conflict in Latin America have stalled and
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Drug Testing You are playing varsity for the sport you love your freshmen year. You have many colleges looking at you already and you are still a freshmen! Next thing you know‚ you are going to the collage of your dreams on a scholarship. This is the best thing that has ever happened to you but‚ you have a dirty secret…...When you were in high school you developed a drug addiction. The college you go to gives a drug test every month. With your addiction‚ you don’t pass‚ you get kicked off the
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I have a dream that one day America will be drug free. We lose so many people each year because of drugs. I’m not even fifteen and I have seen many people die and have their kids taken away from them because of drugs. When people hear drugs they think of heroin and cocaine‚ but it can also come from a simple blood pressure pill‚ I know this by seeing it happen.Today two years ago my grandpa died from a simple prescription drug‚ he was depressed therfore he overdosed on blood pressure medicine. The
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due to new laws and social media. Others would argue quite the opposite. The argument of random drug testing in schools is a modern day idea that can solve many problems‚ but can also create problems too. Both sides of the argument bring up many valid points‚ all of which are from credible sources. Whether they think random drug testing in schools is harmful to students’ rights or that the benefits of drug testing outweigh the preferred privacy of the students‚ the articles present reliable evidence
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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
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community is that smuggling drugs is now a serious problem in American. It is a known fact that most police officers who should be upholding the law are as corrupt as the drug dealers. Fairly low paid officers are able to accumulate enormous profit from illegal drug sale. In contrast to the traditional police corruption in which police takes bribes from gangster to look the other way rather than enforce the law‚ many police officer have become drugs baron themselves. Drugs corruption has also penetrated
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Organized Crime and Drug Trade Organized crime and the illicit drug trade is a fairly recent ordeal occurring throughout the world‚ both strongly linked with drug trafficking. Organized crime refers to the unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized‚ disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods and services‚ including gambling‚ prostitution‚ loan- sharking‚ narcotics‚ and labor racketeering (Schmalleger‚ 2011‚ pg.234). Drug trafficking‚ which is a type of organized crime
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