War on Drugs



War on Drugs

Introduction

The term “war on drugs” is frequently applied to an operation of exclusion, military interference and the foreign armed forces aid that are commenced by the government of the United States. This campaign is supported with the aid of other contributing nations and the aim is to describe and diminish the unlawful and illicit trade of drugs. In the western world, the United States has the highest confinement rate. This rate is four times greater than the France and United Kingdom on a capita basis (Painter, 2003).

Discussion

Illicit drugs are an industry having an income of 60 billion dollars per year. In this industry, 16 million people of America and seven percent of the population of the United States is involved which is above the age of 12 years. This stage of drugs consumption evidently concerns the rest of the people in the United States.

For the year 1985 to 2001, the most significant problem that was faced by the people of the United States was of drugs and it was 1 of the top 10 answers given b y the public. For such issues, the state and federal legislatures and executive branch officials ratified and executed policies that were diverse in method and were leaning towards the enforcement.

Background

The initial law of the United States that limited the usage and distribution of the drugs was the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914. The local laws of drug prevention came in 1860. The U.S. passed the National Prohibition Act in 1920, along with the 18th Amendment. In which the manufacture, sale and shipping of alcohol for the utilization on a national level was forbidden and banned. The United States declared war on drugs on 5th September 1989 (Messing & Hazelwood, 2013)

Approaches

Various strategies and approaches have been made by ...