War on Drugs
The concept of the 'War on Drugs' was first coined by President Nixon back in 1971 in an effort to discourage the illegal trafficking of drugs. The primary motivation for this was the way that many states were falling victim to the dynamics of the drugs and terrorism links prevalent in the region. There have many studies conducted that show various authentic connections between the drug business and how a majority of the money it produces is used to fund terrorism and destructive activities.
Throughout the late 19th century, numerous parts of the United States, from time to time, have faced numerous disruptions in their efforts for the peace process because of the growth of the drug industry. The entire debate on war in drugs now revolves around whether or not, certain drugs must be legalized/not legalized and their trafficking and distribution monitored. In a recent article, published in New York Times, the writer goes on to say that one of the major reasons that the war on drugs and drug addiction is general has played such a vital role in years is because of the inefficient prison systems in the country. The writer explains that the rigidity and inefficient monitoring in the prisons creates criminal traits in first-time offenders (The New York Times, 2011).
The article also claims that the structure of prisons and criminal law is not one that supports prisons to be filled with criminal who have committed serious offences and instead leads to common low-level criminals engaging in drug or alcohol abuse within the prisons and outside and thus being retained in prisons for offences in the similar domains. This, the articles claims, does cause a major dent in some of the minorities (like the African-Americans) who seem to develop the drug-abusive traits more quickly and are much more vulnerable thereof on a social level as they experience a deprived lifestyle, falling salaries, rising prejudice and injustice (The New York Times, 2011). They also are far more vulnerable, due to this weakened social stature, to the drug traffickers who offer them a healthy-wealthy way out for them and their families. This is perhaps why I feel very strongly about the aggressive continuation of the war on drugs towards not only legalizing or limiting access to certain drugs but also to decrease the stronghold of the drug trafficking structure within the United States on a financial and social scale.
War on Drugs
The interesting thing to note here is that the Obama administration is now considering a different, more productive approach towards war on drugs by, first, not referring to it as a war! The administration takes a somewhat vague approach on the debate of whether the war on drugs must continue or not claiming that the phenomenon of drug addiction was merely a disease and must be treated so. This means that the overall structure of drug abuse, the current administration propagates, must be fought off at a medical, psychological and cognitive level. They justify this approach by claiming that further restrictions or legalizations of drugs will make the drug distribution much more difficult to monitor, hence making them lose control over how they maintain the community's health and security against drug trafficking (Institute for Behavior and Health, 2011).
While, the approach of the current government to maintain a steady and balanced approach towards the dilemma of legalizing restricting drugs access is understandable, but the overall impact of drug trafficking in the region cannot be ignored and should, perhaps on its own, be reason enough for a more aggressive approach on restricting drugs access and restricting distributions of certain drugs currently available in the market. A great support for this particular argument is the case of Columbia in Latin America where the drug trafficking structure has increased terrorism and destroyed the sanctity of a prosperous and developing social structure. This...
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