Is the war against drugs in the United States really working?

A couple of months ago Bush asked Congress for $1.4 billion dollars to fight drugs in Mexico in order to prevent the infiltration of illegal drugs into the U.S; with that money the Mexican government would provide a special training for the police and tools to dismantle drug cartels, including helicopters, surveillance planes, drug-sniffing dogs and software to track cases.

But is this war on drugs really worthy? , we been fighting this war since 1880 when the U.S. prohibited the shipment of opium coming from China, then was the prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s and so on , for all this years the only result has been an increase consume on drug use among Americans.

For years Colombia was the main center of drug production trafficking to the Americans, but after the U.S.”war on drugs” initiated the government stopped them from trafficking to our country; but let’s face it we all know that the drug marketing works and the producers and distributors who were disrupted in one area will just move to another country to keep with their business. Now we have Afghanistan with their huge heroin production and consumption worldwide since they were separated from the Taliban.

To stop this war will cause us billions and billions of dollars, we can’t afford that anymore! It’s clear that the war on drugs isn’t working and we won’t be able to stop it as long as we have consumers who still buying drugs at any cause and price. And is more than obvious that Americans really enjoy taking drugs and drinking; I would just let them do what they want with their lives but the problem starts when they affect third persons. That’s why we should not give up this War; we just have to find different techniques to solve this problem from the inside like educating young people about the causes of drug abuse as the association with suicide, homicide, HIV infection, hepatitis, pneumonia, violence, mental illness, and car accidents.

"Death Upon Texas"

In this article Brian gives us important facts over the death penalty history in our country as important dates of court cases that made this law pass.
Nowadays there are people who still think that this is a very cruel punishment, arguing that no one has the right to take someone else’s life, even when the person had committed murder. I was looking at the Texas execution information center where you can actually find a list of the people that had been executed and you can also have access to their court case like this one: Jackie Barron Wilson, 39, was executed by lethal injection on May 4, 2006 in Huntsville, Texas for the abduction, sexual assault, and murder of a 5-year-old girl. I was dread after looking at those execution reports and I don’t think there’s a better punishment for those criminals, they have to pay for what they have done, that’s why I am in favor of the death penalty and I totally agree with Brian’s point of view over this topic.
I just don’t think that after all the harm that these criminals have done they should have all those privileges like being allow to watch T.V and live for twenty years more before they are executed.

http://bnationalreport.blogspot.com/2007/10/death-upon-texas.html