Drug abuse is a huge problem in the United States and throughout the world. Each year more and more people become addicted to drugs. The situation keeps getting worse even though the government spends millions of dollars yearly on drug control. Rehab clinics help addicts get over their problem, but ...

The U.S. Government should take a chance with a new approach towards the war on drugs obviously the one in effect now is not working to well. I do not think that the government will ever be able to tell the U.S. public that they have succeeded in the fight on the War on Drugs. Let's face it the war ...

Everyone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems caused by drug abuse. Concern about the abuse of drugs is so most serious problems in today\'s world, threatening the security and freedom of whole nations. Politicians, health experts, and much o...

Making Matters Worse "Drug abuse is a serious problem, both for individual citizens and society at large, but the 'war on drugs' has made matters worse." -Ethan A. Nadelmann The prohibitionist approach to the war on drugs, just like the temperance movement of th...

Naufel Tajudeen Crimes, Drugs and Policy The War Against Drugs In this country, we are locked in war we simply cannot win. We strive to protect over 10,000 miles of border, against enemies who are driven by the lure of an obscene profit. We have fought this a version of this war before, and have ...

Naufel Tajudeen Crimes, Drugs and Policy The War Against Drugs In this country, we are locked in war we simply cannot win. We strive to protect over 10,000 miles of border, against enemies who are driven by the lure of an obscene profit. We have fought this a version of this war before, and have los...

Drugs In America By Robert Emmet Long. The war on drugs is I believe the longest war in the history of mankind. I also think it is one of the most important topics today. I personally do not see an end that is going to come anytime soon because there is no way that we can stop the use of it. ...

Evil Forces of Drugs The use of illegal drugs among today's teenagers is rampantly increasing. Drugs are going from the undergrounds to the hallways of America's schools; nevertheless, they are corrupting America's youth. Those that are fighting the war against drugs are using the ...

George W. Bush spends almost $200 million dollars per year to fight the "War on Drugs." You probably didn't notice this because the only results we've seen have been in the form of misguiding commercials claiming that "buying drugs supports terrorism," or "marijuana can get you busted". But is it re...

Illegal drugs influence people every day of their lives. Illegal drugs affect people whether they are users themselves, drug dealers, victims of drug-related crime, or dealing with a friend or family member\'s addiction. Illegal drugs influence people every day of their lives. Illegal drugs affect p...

For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems of society. There have been escalating costs spent on the war against drugs and countless dollars spent on rehabilitation, but the problem still exists. Not only has the drug problem increased but drug related problems are on the rise. Dr...

Although it is apparent that America\'s drug plague is reaching epidemic proportions, costing US taxpayers an estimated 20 billion dollars in a year, the legalization of drugs cannot be economically justified. Despite pro-legalization arguments, the estimated economic benefit that would be derived f...

Everyday someone is thrown in state prison for anywhere from 3 years to life for the "illegal" use of the drug known as marijuana. It has come down to it that thousands of pounds of marijuana are smuggled over the border of Mexico and into the United States. Regardless of the fight or struggle of ...

Legalizing Illegal Drugs This factual essay explains the benefits of legalizing illegal drugs that grow from the ground. It is important to understand that our issue does not deal with legalizing man-made drugs such as acid or ecstasy, but drugs that grow from the ground such as heroine, mariju...

Fewer Coloradans have signed up for the state's medical-marijuana program than expected but officials say the pace may increase in coming months. Ninety-nine Coloradans are legally smoking marijuana with their doctor's approval under the state's 7-month-old Medical Marijuana Registry program. The f...

Eliot Marshall once said "The discovery and invention of substances that change the way we feel and behave are among man's special accomplishments". Man has been given the ability to alter a person's behavior, mood, health, thoughts, and perception. However, due to government ...

Should Society have the right to prohibit drug use? Why would the government care if you use drugs? Is it because drugs can be harmful to your heath? But what does the government care about your heath for. Shouldn't your health be your business and not the governments? These are some of th...

Everyone knows what illegal drugs are and how the people who do illegal drugs are deemed in societies throughout the world. The basis of this can easily be defined from what Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke stated in The Human Project; \"For them, the effectiveness of the social contract depe...

Side: Against the legalization of illegal drugs Legalizing illegal drugs would make the illegal drug business a free enterprise. This would naturally subject the drug business to factors common to other business, namely competition. Competition will force drug manufacturers to strive to produce ...

America is going through a war with the Afghanistanians right now, but we are also going through another war as well. We are in a war against the use and production of drugs in Columbia. The US government needs to find a way to help Columbia stop their civil war and stop this drug problem. The write...

Legalization of Drugs. (PRO) "There is much hysteria about drugs and drug use in this country and much misinformation. It is time we got rid of both, put drugs and drug abuse in their proper perspective and go on with our lives." Richard Lawrence Miller, The case for Legalizing Drugs. I coul...

It is frequently stated that illegal drugs are "bad, dangerous, destructive" or "addictive" and that society has an obligation to keep them away from the public. But no where really, can be found reliable, objective scientific evidence that they are any more harmful than substa...

The Vietnam War & Fred Shepherd The Vietnam War was fought in 1964-1975. Before United States involvement, Vietnam was a French colony and the Vietnamese wanted their freedom. They fought for their independence from the French and were successful in 1955. The United States wanted an ally in...

INTRODUCTIONPresident Richard M. Nixon signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act on October 27th, 1970. Moments later, he turned the law over to Attorney General John Mitchell, head of the Justice Department at the time, who was directed to head the federal drug-law enforcement ...

When you turn on the television you see many visions of problems in America. These problems include violence, poverty, crime and murder. All of these problems are either caused by, or directly related to drugs. A drug is any substance ingested into the body that is not food. The greatest proble...