Ethan Nadelmann Summary

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“What has the War on Drugs done to the world?” Asked by the founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan Nadelmann. He made his argument at the TEDGlobal in 2014, his presentation is titled “Why we need to end the War on Drugs”. His Talk is about the War on Drugs and how we should change our views toward drugs. That our drug policies is tainted by fear and not by people’s health. According to Nadelmann “the world is losing the War on Drugs and that the probation of drugs did not help with the crisis. That we need to turn our backs on the failed probation of the past and embrace new drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. Nadelmann is determined and compassionate about his movement, that the audience had an emotional …show more content…

He didn’t mention that he is the founder of the organization and the movement that he is fighting so hard for, but its mention in his autobiography. Not stating that he found Drug Policy Alliance, can make him seem as a random human right activist that love drugs. But he isn't some random dude, he wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on international drug control and interviewed hundreds of DEA and other law enforcement agents in Europe and the Americas, about what they think is causing all the drug war. He also meets people who have lost someone to drug-related violence, prison, overdosed, or by AIDS, because our drug policies emphasize criminalization, over health. His organization helps people with drug-related activities and it also helped legalization of medical use of marijuana. His personal experience of helping people with drug problems increased his credibility. His determination of pursuing the answer of “ What have the War on drugs have done to the world”, makes him credible and aware of the issues that drugs have done to the …show more content…

“Where there is a demand, there will be supply. And if you knock out one source, another will emerge.” Stating that the drug market is like any other market, it's implying that the drug market is a multi-million dollars business and it’s nothing to mess with. Giving the audience information about how big drug business really is and how they have the power and the money to cause mayhem to the world, shows how much info he knows about the War on Drugs. Nadelmann had a lack of visual aid he didn’t use it at all to help his argument. He could have shown the pictures of people using drugs, dying by drugs, he could have even shown pictures of piles of drugs being smuggled to the U.S and even the destruction of cartels and drug kingpin have done to the world. But he didn’t show any of it and maybe he didn’t it have to, it could've hurt his argument that drugs should be

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