Essays on War on drugs

August 16, 2017 at 8:24pm, 17 year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos was last seen being dragged by two men. Four witnesses later said that he was given a gun and told to run. Delos Santos was later found dead with three gunshot wounds to the back of the head. This incident comes after a drug…

The illicit drug business runs like any reputable business would. The drug is manufactured, then shipped out to drug dealers at a wholesale price, then these buyers turn around and sell the drugs to retail sellers on the street once they are in the United States. At the retail or street level, there are two…

According to BOP Statistics, “46.2% of inmates in prison are incarcerated for drug offenses.” In the United States and countries abroad, there has been an effort to eradicate drug use and production. The war on drugs has caused upheaval, chaos, and social unrest. Undoubtedly, this war has failed and will continue to fail if we…

The Federal Government, while trying to protect us from our human nature, developed harsh anti-drug policies with the hope of eradicating drugs. These policies seemed simple enough: imposition of penalties on those who use substances illegally, iterception of drugs coming from other countries while ending all drug cultivation in the States, and prevention of foreign…

Mass incarceration is one of the biggest social issues in our society. Unfortunately we house 25% of the world’s prisoners. Mass incarceration is mass or extreme rates of imprisonment. This is caused by many factors that has led to this social issue, for example neglect or corruption from our government officials for example, lack of…

Introduction We are number one! America likes to think of our nation as number one, the top, the best, and there are a lot of ways this is true. America is the number one economy in the world for example, America is also the number one destination for immigrants who are seeking a better life,…