Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage

The “war on drugs” was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has

been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their

disposal. Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government

of the United States of America. Others feel- that this heightened media coverage is a

direct result of the consequences of drugs and drug abuse. For whatever reasons that the

media was there, the participants in this pro and con attitude that surrounded the “war on

drugs,” used any platform that the media could provide them with to speak their thoughts

on the subject. The proprietors of these thoughts and words were people of all types.

They ranged from professors, to congressmen, to prisoners of the “war on drugs.” All of

these people had something to say and the media was there to listen to most all of it.

In the following pages two opposite views about the “war on drugs” will be

looked at. Those who believe the war on drugs is effective, and those who feel it is a

gross waste of money as well as a violation of human rights. Also, w

such as D.A.R.E. and other drug prevention methods were unleashed on the country’s

drugs, all the man power thrown at it, and all the public information campaigns that it is

of marijuana for cancer patients and other sufferers of disease. The advocates for the war

“Just Say No” public service announcements were born. The media was now in alliance

marijuana smokers are still arrested. The evidence indicates that we can stop arresting

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