Urgent in Our World Today? Essay

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Worst of all, the strenuous and, frequently, irrational efforts of the police to control drug use has resulted in a monstrous tyrannical state. Police benefit from the proceeds and from the assets seized when they arrest drug dealers. Informants are bribed by cash rewards leading children to inform on parents. Otherwise innocent and vulnerable people become hardened criminals due to their incommensurate jail sentences. The American social inequality becomes exacerbated when White influential Americans are given drug treatment whilst their fellow citizens, from lower classes, languish in jail. Prisons have become more barbaric. Prisons spate families causing children to end up without parents and in foster homes, and people die from drug overdose due to their fear of the expense and repercussion of seeking treatment. These are just some of the ramifications of America's 'war' on drugs.

Countries choose their issues and problems. America has none of the problems that the developing world has. Its population is well-fed and, largely, literate.
Its climate is balanced and it has largely expelled disease from its borders. America, however, has its own issues, and some of these issues, one may argue, are contrived and result in more harm than good. The War on drugs may be one of these. An anthropological perspective will, therefore, be helpful in order to fully assess how and where the war has gone wrong. Helping the country assess its wars and criticize them may well help move them back on track and may, in some instances, possibly eradicate the war in the first place. The War on Drugs is just one example of a case where criticizing it may help us see that not only need a 'war' not exist but fighting one not only instigates corruption but pulverizes hundreds of innocent lives instead.

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