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    Nixon's Drug War

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    The drug war‚created by Nixon in June 1971 created many devastating consequences around the world‚ including the breaking of families‚the skyrocketing of crime rate‚and of course some of the worst people in history getting into power.One of the biggest supporter of the drug war Rodrigo Duterte was born into a religious household and the violent city of Davao.Some of the people had nothing but hatred and the people who supported him they has been had‚them have been smudged. He was called a monster

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    Fighting the War on Drugs

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    Using Advertising to Fight the War on Drugs: The Power of Social Marketing or a Waste of Money? Belch & Belch   Purpose/Objective: • Preventing children from trying and using drugs. Problem: • ONDCP and PDFA couldn’t prove that the money being spent on anti-drug messages were reducing drug use among children and young people. Key issues within the case: • Between 1987 and 1989‚ advertisement produced by the Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA) relied on scare tactics

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    Afghanistan and war on drugs

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    promoting access to White Rose research papers Universities of Leeds‚ Sheffield and York http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ This is an author produced version of a paper published in Political Studies. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/43142/ Published paper Adeney‚ Katharine and Wyatt‚ Andrew (2004) Democracy in South Asia: Getting beyond the Structure-Agency Dichotomy. Political Studies‚ 52 (1). pp. 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248

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    War on Drugs Solution: Legalization? Proposal Much like the exclusion of alcohol back in the 20s which was aimed to evict various substances from our civilization‚ the drug war today has not only ruined its mission‚ but has made its mission unfeasible. Today various failures‚ whether it is the huge amount of money being spent erroneously or the increasing number of crimes and users‚ one thing is for sure; the war on drugs has fallen short. There is no

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    Drug War Research Paper

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    Drug-Wars Op-Ed The war on drugs has failed throughout the world and countries globally have some sort of problem pertaining to narcotics and other drugs. The United States is on top of the list of countries for drug use and abuse of drugs. It got so terrible that forty years ago President at the time Richard Nixon declared the United States government ’s "War on Drugs‚" a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention. Having foreign countries participate in the "War

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    In 1971 Nixon Declares the “war on drugs” this entailed placing marijuana under a schedule one drug‚ dramatically increasing the size of and presence of federal drug agencies‚ and made strict prison penalties if caught with a schedule one drug. As the war on drugs became more and more prominent in society there emerged a growing racial disparity in drug related arrests and prison populations. Which brings the question of was the war on drugs focused on targeting low income African American neighborhoods

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    In 2004 Obama said: "The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws… we need to rethink how we operate the drug wars." according to the website http://www.commondreams.org. When the war on drugs was declared everyone thought it would be a could idea. Not knowing that in 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared the war on drug‚ his plan would only result in trillions of dollars wasted on an endless battle that couldn’t be won. President Nixon

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    whether war is a form of diplomacy‚ or rather a failure of diplomacy. While scholars such as Clausewitz would argue that war is a policy maker and that the conduct of war should be subordinated to its political goals‚ other scholars such as Fearon may also suggest that war is a failure of diplomacy and that entities intervene as a last resort. While both points of view are interesting‚ the definition of “war” and “diplomacy”‚ the purposes within war and diplomacy‚ peaceful negotiations within wars‚ summitries

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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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    Two Front War Failure

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    A Two-front war is classified as a war fought in separate locations at the same general time‚ and World War I was classified as just that. The startup of the Two-front war was instigated when Gavrilo Princip‚ a member of a terrorist group aimed at Serbian liberation called the Black Hand‚ shot and killed Austria’s Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia. The Austrian-Hungarian government did not know if the Bosnian government had been directly linked in the assassination and had used the death of Franz

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