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    at war. We have been fighting drug abuse for almost a century. Four Presidents have personally waged war on drugs. Unfortunately‚ it is a war that we are losing. Drug abusers continue to fill our courts‚ hospitals‚ and prisons. The drug trade causes violent crime that ravages our neighborhoods. Children of drug abusers are neglected‚ abused‚ and even abandoned. The only beneficiaries of this war are organized crime members and drug dealers. The United States has been engaged in a “war” for

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    sigler Senior Writeing 12 December 2012 THE WAR ON DRUGS The number of people arrested this year for drug law offences as of Monday December 3‚ 2012 was (1‚541‚363). That’s 13% of the total arrests this year. Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations than any outer offenses this year. also someone is arrested for violating a drug law every 19 seconds but this is a good this and someone think that these laws agents drugs is too costly and too much time and money for law

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    got recruited into the most violent cartel and confess of beheading his victims .Drug cartel leaders are among the most feared people in the world.  Drug cartels started by recruiting family members to keep the business going‚ but now as cartels have expanded in the United States they will recruit anyone in order to make their cartel even stronger.  Usually‚ the cartels would recruit people with experience in the drug world‚ but recently they have been targeting young adults..  Young adults are influenced

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    A solution to the war on drugs Name: Institution: Date: Abstract The War on Drugs is extensively regarded as a requirement in the present society that has been laden with the burden of drug abuse‚ addiction‚ rehabilitation and increased crime rates due to drug abuse. War on Drugs has remained a deep rooted contentious campaign that has been debated over and over for several years in the search of a liable solution that can solve the problem permanently. The war on drugs affects every citizen

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    Newman (10 Ways the Drug War Is Causing Massive Collateral Damage to Our Society) and Solomon and Baksh (Evaluating the Drug War on Its 40th Birthday‚ by the Numbers) discuss the detrimental consequences the war on drugs had on society. Specifically‚ the prison system’s dramatic increase in population. The mass incarceration of people of color in the United States can be traced back to numerous historical events. One of those events being president Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs‚ which provoked the

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    The War on Drugs‚ a collective term for the series of federal anti-drug efforts run by the United States government‚ attempted to significantly reduce the import‚ manufacture‚ sale‚ and use of illegal drugs and narcotics (Head‚ 1). Regardless of the intention‚ the four-decade long legal movement left a staggering amount of political and social unrest‚ such as the monetary costs for the efforts‚ the harsh laws associated with drug possession‚ and the inflated penalties for relatively low-end crimes

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    War On Drugs Analysis

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    Rationale‚ I will be covering the topic of the “War on Drugs” to convince legislators that it has proven to be a phenomenal waste of time and money‚ incarcerates minority people disproportionately‚ and does not solve the drug problem at all. To show that they should work to repeal all applicable draconian drug laws immediately. The reason legislators need to hear this argument immediately is that since Richard Nixon initiated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970‚ we the

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    The War on Drugs Week One Assignment CJA 234 [Type the author name] 10/4/2011   Prison and the War on Drugs. The war on drugs has been implemented for more than 30 years. Currently‚ there are close to a half million persons imprisoned on drug charges in this country. That is a tenfold increase over the 50‚000 in 1980. (jrank.org‚ 2011) In the past few years‚ close to $40 billion has been spent annually fighting the war on drugs. As a result of the drastic increase in drug-related

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    Drug War Statistics To Sum this up I’ve gathered some information not well information to show the damage does to our society the economic failure from of America’s “War on Drugs”: There is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. Of the more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2009‚ 82 percent were for possession alone. The U.S. government estimates that more than 118 million Americans above the age of 12 (47 percent of the population) admit to using illegal drugs. One out of every

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    The war on drugs is a complete failure. When connecting drugs to crime the relationship is complex. Many different reasons can be the cause of addiction‚ selling drugsdrug users and the creation of war on drugs. The criminal justice approach only created a deep depression over minority communities. The war on drugs created a vicious ongoing cycle that minorities‚ especially American Americans cannot not escape. Michelle Alexander suggested the war on drugs is similar to Jim Crow laws. The war on

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