War On Drugs Satire

The war on drugs has been going on for some time. The war on drugs refers to the government’s attempts to stop the circulation of drugs. This includes the production, selling, and transport of illegal drugs, in order to reduce drug abuse. This war has been going on since the 1900’s. The bureau of justice reported that fifty five percent of federal prisoners and twenty one percent of state level prisoners are incarcerated on the basis of drug related offenses( ). That amounts to about half a million people for scale that’s more people than live in Wyoming. The war on drugs has been going on for thirty years now. The war has made a significant impact on society, the economy and has made a lot of history gaining spotlight time along the

That’s the struggle right? And they say ‘oh it’s a choice’, ‘oh that’s bad you won’t ever amount to anything.’ Truth be told it’s not always a choice, and a lot even though few do in fact amount to be something, even fortune five hundred CEO’s. There is no guarantee you will make it until tomorrow or that you will one day be a fortune five hundred CEO, but there is always a chance. Personally, I think the government’s attempts to end the War on Drugs failed and are worthless. Drug production, use, transportation, and so forth is so widespread there is no way to stop it. Dealing with this war is kind of like dealing with children in my opinion; you tell them not to do something and immediately they want to do it, or the moment you care they intend to rebel. In this case the drug dealers have succeeded. So why keep fighting a war you have initially lost? There is no point. As demonstrated in the state of Colorado with the legalization of marijuana, criminal activity and numerous other accounts have decreased greatly. In fact they have bettered our economy in such a small amount of