What has been America's longest and most unsuccessful war? If you answered Vietnam or World War II you would be incorrect. America has been waging a war since 1972 that is still going on as we speak, the "War on Drugs". It was this year that Nixon appointed a National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse and despite its recommendations to decriminalize marijuana Nixon still declared, in his own ... words, a "War on Drugs." This war brought upon harsher penalties ... shows that these peaked in 1933, at 9.7 per 100,000 people, and in 1980, at 10 per 100,000 people, which coincides with the p...

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... American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up ... . Government's solution is spending more money, imprison more people but that does not keep people from using drugs. In this final part of the paper, I will discuss legali...

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... American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up ... . Government's solution is spending more money, imprison more people but that does not keep people from using drugs. In this final part of the paper, I will discuss legali...

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... American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up ... . Government's solution is spending more money, imprison more people but that does not keep people from using drugs. In this final part of the paper, I will discuss legali...

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... wife beaters, the police chase potheads (Duke 2). The government has mixed up its priorities on what is harming the country as a whole. Neglecting to look at the positive effects of marijuana, the government is tied up with wrong impression on how to solve the drug war. When the government disturbs the black market, the country prospers. ... MS, epilepsy and other spinal cord injuries. People do become addicted to prescription drugs, but people benefiting from marijuana do not become addicted to the drug after the use is not necessary. Jim Bestes, a man confined to a wheelchair, happily...

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... wife beaters, the police chase potheads (Duke 2). The government has mixed up its priorities on what is harming the country as a whole. Neglecting to look at the positive effects of marijuana, the government is tied up with wrong impression on how to solve the drug war. When the government disturbs the black market, the country prospers. ... MS, epilepsy and other spinal cord injuries. People do become addicted to prescription drugs, but people benefiting from marijuana do not become addicted to the drug after the use is not necessary. Jim Bestes, a man confined to a wheelchair, happily...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School