Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, Cesar Gaviria, and Ernesto Zedillo. 2009. The War on Drugs Is a Failure. Wall StreetJournal, February 23.Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, Cesar Gaviria, et al. (2009). The War on Drugs is a Failure...
Colombia has had a long history of drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence and has been at the epicenter of the US-led war on drugs for decades. Unlike some of the other case studies in this book, Colombia has been— and continues to be—a major producer of drugs. This chapter...
The Failure of the War on Drugs Essay The U.S. government eventually began establishing statutes against individuals possessing and using the drug. During a 1914 Congressional hearing, Congress approved the Harrison Act, which was a federal tax statute aimed at managing cocaine and attending to the...
The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want in any city in America within half an hour. -- David Sheff, American author "Price of Fentanyl will rise sharply" ...
At the same time, it goes to question whether or not the ‘War on Drugs’ is a wholesale failure, or if the primary method needs to be shifted from prohibition to education and regulation. Some think maybe the focus should stop being put on punishing those arrested for drug charges and ...
War on DrugsDrug PolicyProhibitionPrivate individuals and policymakers often utilize prohibition as a means of controlling the sale, manufacture, and consumption of particular goods. While the ECoyne, Christopher J.Hall, Abigail RSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
The War On Drug War Today the number are in the war on drug is a huge failure with devastated unintended consequences, it lead to mass incarceration in the us, to corruption, to political destabilization, and violence in latin america, asia, and africa. To systemic human right abuse across...
A resounding success of a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs’, 2012, Drug... CE Hughes,A Stevens - 《Drug Alcohol Rev》 被引量: 91发表: 2012年 The effects of partial decriminalisation on cannabis use in South...
The War on Obesity as a Moral Project: Weight Loss Drugs, Obesity Surgery and Negotiating Failure Anti-obesity interventions are configured within British biomedicine as a hierarchy of condoned practices, with access to those further up the hierarchy ma......
Here we are, four decades after Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs in 1971 and $1 trillion spent since then. What do we have to show for it? The U.S. has the largest prison populationin the world, with about 2.3 million behind bars. More than half a million of those people ar...