Essays on Drugs Page 7

A profound rap lyricist who goes by Kendrick Lamar once said in a song, “I don’t smoke crack, motherfucker, I sell it!”. In today’s society, teens and young adults are indulging themselves in the world of drugs more than ever before. The lingering question behind the use is questioning whether or not drugs and alcohol…

Drug abuse are chemical or substance abuse that can cause poisoning, physical and psychological dependence on the body. Drug abuse is common in the modern society and it has affected everywhere in the world. Drug abuse affects all of us, wherever we live and whatever we do. Data from the United Nations Office on Drugs…

“Hitler massacred 3 million Jews … now there are 3 million drug addicts. I’d be happy to slaughter them.” as said by Rodrigo Duterte during a September 2016 press conference. For over decades of years, the Philippines is still undergoing one of the most pressing problems of the country which is the rising number of…

Introduction Since the onset of the war on drugs, the U.S. has held one of the world’s highest rate of incarceration, with over 41.6% of inmates under a federal drug offense sentence (Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2018). The war on drugs usually refers to the severe measures enacted by the criminal justice system regarding illegal…

Having any sort of drug prohibitions will have a negative effect on the world’s economy because of all the violence and criminal activity from drug cartels, and the unknowing of the safety of the drugs leading to more people overdosing and being poisoned. Many examples in the present and past have shown that drug prohibitions…

Taking a political approach to the Mexican drug wars is essential to understand how power relations amongst the stakeholders within this conflict have shifted over the years and how it has led to this violent escalation. The first part of this political section will analyze Mexico’s political transformation since 2000 and explain how this led…