War 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 The purpose in writing this essay is to shed light and possibly convince voters and policy makers in the United States to dispel their support of the War on Drugs. More than 40 years ago, United States President Richard Nixon declared what is to be public enemy number one: drug abuse (Vulliami 2011). This…

For the past 5 decades, the way to demonstrate rebellion, especially amongst the youth has been drugs. The United States has been at war with drugs since June 1971, after president Nixon “declared a “war on drugs,” (A Brief History of the Drug War, 2019) He dramatically increased the size and presence of federal drug…

Many think that the war on drugs began recently, however, the war on drugs started much earlier. To start, we need to know when and why many of our drugs became illegal. Many of our drugs were illegalized not because of any data, or scientific knowledge that had been gathered about the negativity of using…

One of the biggest wars America is fighting against is drugs. While the war on drugs as become even more of a severe problem over several decades, this conflict has been a battle for over a century. Some of the most common drugs that are abused my millions everyday consist of prescription and over the…

Although many people highly advocate against drug usage, there are still millions of people that use some sort of drug every day, whether it’s for medicinal reasons or not; legal or not. According to WebMD, a study done in 2017 shown that 55 percent of Americans use prescription drugs. Roughly 200 million people worldwide use…

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…

History often repeats itself, and that certainly holds true here in the US. All the way back in 1875, San Francisco had banned smoking dens for opium which was a law aimed at Chinese Immigrants. In the 1910’s, California, Maine, Wyoming, and Indiana all outlawed marijuana. During the 1920’s the US decided to make the…

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…