War on Drugs is a Dismal Failure

If the House of Representatives cast 263-146 votes, the House of Representatives recently approved a bill containing $ 1.7 billion for additional military aid to combat Colombian drug cartels. By doing so, they continue with one of the recent historical policies the US has recently misunderstood. At least some Republicans can try to remove Colombian aid from the $ 13 billion foreign aid bill. Unfortunately today's drug war is creation by Republicans of the Reagan era and is attractive and most liberals are defending it blindly. Either way, the two sides currently overwhelmingly support the drug war, making it impossible for their opponents to be confused.

Supporters of drug policy reform pointed out that drug warfare, the reform of the marijuana law and the reduction of drug damage are important issues. Advocates of policy changes like the Drug Policy Alliance believe that drug war was once a policy failure, which led to waste of resources, human potential and infringement of rights. Collective imprisonment by drug users is considered to waste taxpayer money through narcotic advocacy reform. The United States spends more than $ 51 million annually on drug warfare. Organizations that focus on reforms, such as project rulings and zero campaigns, claim that the potential for imprisonment for drug-related complaints varies completely from race to race. Michel Alexander said that her book "New Jim Crowe: Mass Imprisonment in the Age of Color Blindness" and "Drug War" is a new form of organizational oppression and social control, similar to the apartheid's imposition Declared. Jim Crow method.

Excessive opioids and overdose are increasing every year. Under the guidance of this new administration, drug warfare continues to intensify, but drug warfare is nothing but a failure of racial prejudice. Despite the fact that whites and colored races use the same proportion of drugs, the number of drug use and deaths continues to increase, and more and more minority ethnic groups continue to be locked. It seems that there is no effect at all even if you lock your health condition. Instead, generations of African Americans and Hispanics have left criminal records, can not find a job, can not vote (most countries are more generous), and their addiction Can not receive appropriate treatment for. People of all races and classes are addicted to the use of drugs Important is the color of the skin The place you live, the money you are not caught and not imprisoned.

Clearly, "drug war", which was first started under the Nixon regime a quarter of a century ago, and unfairly aimed at ethnic and ethnic minority in the inner city of the United States, is a frustrating failure. According to existing surveys, federal, state and local intervention and social management measures are becoming increasingly disadvantageous, but narcotics trafficking and narcotics-related crime in domestic cities, the degree of violence and lawlessness has not decreased. On the contrary, despite increasing war and high cost, this social illness is increasing.