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.
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I totally agree with you about the war against drugs. Instead of wasting billions and billions of money to prevent the infiltration of illegal drugs into the United States. Like you said we have been fighting this war since 1880 but we never got the outcome of it. The only outcome that we see is the increase of using the drugs.
Once again, I do agree with you. We can’t fight war against drugs until people are enough educated to understand that drugs are extremely dangerous for us and the whole society. This problem can be only fixed by talking to our brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, girlfriends, boyfriends, and especially our family members and the loved ones. Drugs create nothing but problems in people’s lives. The government and nation’s people should work on this instead of looking and finding different ways to stop war against drug. The government should make education system much easier and cheaper so everyone can get good education and good jobs.
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