Essays on War on Drugs

Drug use has occurred throughout history for thousands of years, for both recreational and medicinal purposes. There are even many types of drugs, including marijuana, opium, and tobacco. However, one may wonder how it came to be that some of these drugs became illegal in…

War on Terror, War on Poverty, War on Everything.What comes into your mind? More death? More injuries? More taxes? Yet, war doesn’t seem end anything soon. War on drugs is probably the longest war US government and its citizens have faced since President Nixon declared…

Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness2010 In The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander states that the War on Drugs and the subsequent mass incarceration is, as the title states, a revived version of Jim Crow. She does have…

Imprisonment is one of the first things that people think of as a way to win the “war on drugs”. Is this the best way to handle it though? In July of 2018, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, roughly 46% of prison inmates…

The war on drugs — according to Poltifacts, was a proud moment initiated by President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s inevitably this would become one of the biggest failures of United States history increasing incarcerations over six times the average; costing Americans millions in…

War is a unifying tradition that the United States has been practicing since its conception. Rallying together is easiest when there is an enemy that must be defeated. However, when the enemy is a faceless group or an idea, it becomes a war of ideas…

Film Analysis Featuring: A Crazed Rambling The House I Live In, a documentary exploring the effects of the “War on Drugs” on families, communities and users, offers an emotionally compelling glimpse into the lives of individuals who are often left voiceless. The disturbing truth of…

Ever since the 20’s people have been using substances to get inebriated. Some substances legal others not. And the government has taken it upon themselves to decided what people can and cannot partake of. Earlier in the 1920s the government made alcoholic beverages illegal but…

The Unintended Consequences on the War on Drugs The war on drugs has been a subject for 50 years, but no prevention measures have been found to aid in the prevention of the supply and use of the drugs. It is in the course of…

The Unintended Consequences on the War on Drug The war on drugs has been a subject for 50 years, but no prevention measures have been found to aid in the prevention of the supply and use of the drugs. It is in the course of…