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Kassandra Cando Drugs and Behavior Breaking the Taboo

The War on Drugs is a deep-rooted debated campaign of prevention that has been argued for years. We wonder if the war will ever come to an end, and if there’s a accountable solution. The “war” will never end, and the only way to maintain balance in our society is by not letting any laws on drugs change. We can make a positive change within America as the first step. Legalization of drugs and more criminals on the streets are all examples of why “The War on Drugs” is affecting us. Within time the United States has been allowing the war, by allowing legalization of Marijuana to take place in certain states. Winning the war seems like an impossible task. But losing completely would weaken security and immovability in our world. Applying more action and acknowledgment will increase our awareness to stay away from this defeat, and would better our economy as a whole. To improve the end “The War on Drugs” as a whole, we need to focus on winning the battle here in the United States before other countries.

In the film “Breaking the Taboo” it considers the global nature of the drug trade by visiting Afghanistan, Colombia, Holland, Portugal, Russia and the United States, I believe that the film’s standpoint is well-defined, the U.S. led “War on Drugs” realistically has failed. The film claims that the failure is described by a erroneous policy of suppression, first spoken by Richard Nixon in 1971, that has described global drug policy ever since. The film also outlines the failures of U.S. international drug policy, including Plan Colombia, Plan Mérida in Mexico, and the U.S. government’s alternating embargo and tolerance of poppy production in Afghanistan.

The film emphases mainly on members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a group of world leaders that issued a harsh indictment of the global war on drugs in 2011. This communication is replicated in interviews with former presidents of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, all of who denounce U.S. drug policy. Formal president Bill Clinton also admits in the film that the drug war “hasn’t worked.” The film also takes us to the country in Holland where a small coffee shop has been granted the right to sell 5 grams a day of drugs tone single person a day. They believe that controlling the intake like this will decrease the violence in this country. Many politicians have demonstrated positive sayings to handle the control of drugs, Ronald Regan’s wife slogan was “Just Say No”. Bill Clinton states in the film “The key to your freedom and future is to be drug free”. Overall, The War on Drugs seems like a never-ending war, but in reality all it takes is small but powerful change in order to approach it. If we were to help ourselves before helping others, we would be of more service and help. And these principles could be applied anywhere else that has the yearning to put an end into a drug power environment. This peaceful approach goes along way and overtime will save more lives and ability to the people of tomorrow. We can start by prevention, and work from there. Prevention is the warning we need to face the war in a positive direction. This can best benefit the people of tomorrow and provide a safe and bright future to our society....