The War on Drugs

The War on Drugs



The War on Drugs

Introduction

War on Drugs has been around for almost 30 years. We still continue to struggle with drug abuse and drug smuggling. But the system works. In the United States is the largest trade place for drug users and smugglers. Our society is addicted. The penalty for drug use in harsh not at all. If we do not change our laws, the drug will take over our society. Or we can legalize certain drugs, and sell them in public pharmacies. We will always be drugs, so why not our society one of the drugs. We have long worked to try to preserve the drugs from our society, and we do not see any major results. Nevertheless, people use drugs, and we need to do something about it.

Analysis

In late 1960 Washington became the capital of crime in the United States Our own nation's capital is a crime capital of our country as bad there, what to see and reflect on our society. President Nixon was elected and began his "war on drugs." Nixon did it, adding 1,000 new police officers. This crime is a situation stem from drugs. Forty-four percent of people in the DC jail tested positive heroin. Something must be done, and quickly (Schuster et al, 1971). Dr. Primm, specialist treatment, developed methadone maintenance treatment. Then along came Dr. Jaffe, who proposed a national program of methadone maintenance treatment. His strategy is a national network of methadone clinics. Criminality and then declined sharply, and one year after the moth program instated, burglary fell by 41 percent (Schuster et al, 1971).

The biggest problem is the smuggling of drugs across borders. One of the main reasons why we are smuggling drugs is a drug cartel. Cartels are mainly located in Mexico. Drugs tend to be flying in Colombia. As a result, it was Cartel in 2000 kilograms of cocaine every month for 3-6 flights. Cartels main work was the transportation and distribution. To do this, they have a legitimate business that, in the range of property for cattle, planes, islands, flats, car dealers, and coffee plantations. All this helped to bring the drug cartel in this country. They were also known to police and bribery, or other political figures. In a recent Newsweek article, the drug smuggler tunnel dug under his house in Arizona would be all the way to Mexico. This is how desperate drug smugglers have received (Marc Lacey's, 2009).

The cost of these drugs is so outrageous. 700-lb. cannabis, otherwise known as the marijuana is sold for 48000 dollars. Cocaine is a fact that makes the bucks for the drug traffickers. Cocaine goes for 60,000 dollars per kilogram, in the United States and sells for 4000 - 5000 U.S. dollars in Colombia. These prices notify us something. What our society really addicted. If someone is willing to pay such money for drugs, he has serious problems. That is why the crime rate is so high; they will do everything for this ...