Since the beginning of the 19th century, America has had to deal with the on
             going problem of drugs. We're surrounded by them everyday, whether we realize it, or
             not. The evening news is filled with stories of "crack heads" killing each other as well
             innocent standers- by in a fiendish attempt to find drugs or money to buy drugs.
             Perhaps you may recall reading the morning paper only to find that another teen has
             been found dead in an attempt to sale drugs as a way to quick and easy money. Surely
             every true American as heard a story or two or four about major "drug cartels" paying
             off police chiefs, judges, and even some members our beloved American government.
             I think it is agreed by all Americans that this terrible substance must be
             controlled, and by who else than the great government of the United States of America.
             Certainly, all those masterminds can find some kind of a way to deal with this ever
             increasing problem; after all, we are talking about the same government that allows
             murders, who are defined as " menaces to society" to sit in penitentiaries for years
             while they use society's tax dollars to take care of these individuals.
             The solution to this drug problem can be solved quite easily by looking in
             retrospect at the history of this grand nation. Every rule, every law, and the very
             essence of this country has came about through our humane ability to compromise.
             When the first Americans did not feel like tending to their land, the government
             "compromised" with Africans and slavery was born into the United States. In another
             instance, when white women became a bore to white men a "compromise" was made
             between white men and black women, and a mulatto was born that was neither
             excepted by his white father, nor his black mother. Can one not see that yet another
             great compromise is at order? It is time yet again fo...