Sir Walter Raleigh And The War On Drugs

A noble English man Sir Walter Raleigh, who introduced the art of smoking was the first Victim of the war on drugs and drug related activities? Sir Walter Raleigh was smoking a cigarette and was so involved in it, he ignored the amorous advances of his wife. She thought he was on fire and, she poured a bucket of water over him to extinguish the fire. Wars fought for an ideal, a belief, and the war on drugs is fought to stop illegal drugs in our society. In the United States, the war on drugs creates a need for the pharmaceutical industries to analyze how legal drugs affect the social, economic and psyche of society. According to Besler
The global war on drugs began in 1961, when the UN single convention on Narcotic Drugs was established in

order to create a “drug-free world”. The United National office on drugs and crimes puts out an annual “world Dug Report “where in they examine trends in drugs use and production. The report never cares to assess the cost created by the war on drugs itself. ” (Boesler 2012 p 1).
The common relationship between the war on drugs and Pharmaceutical Company can be in the way drugs are preparing, preserving, compounding and dispensing. Prescription has played a role in defining medical practice, structuring the doctor-patient relationship and also sharpening the access to therapeutics. Drugs that are used to cure illness and prevent them are done by most pharmaceutical companies. However, “the goal of pharmaceutical polices are often undermined due to institutional corruption,” (Rodwin, 544). Despite repeated documentation of the much lower risks associated with certain drug consumptions.
Drug use adds up to a wide variety of drugs, these drugs consist of authorized drug such as tobacco and alcohol, and unauthorized drugs like marijuana, hallucinogens, cocaine, heroin. . We have Nixon and Regan trying to develop the war on these drugs. People where ingesting substances into their body and it was causing harm to the society. The war on drugs is links to pharmaceutical company, in the sense that it sometimes the pharmaceutical companies, these drugs can lead to morbidity and mortality despite all efforts aimed at minimizing and preventing the use of these drugs. We always have this mental picture at the back of our mind that rural areas are different from rural area. People in areas urban have higher rates of drug poisoning, and deaths. Drug use results in significant societal economic costs; addiction costs the U.S. approximately $400 billion in health care costs, lost worker productivity, and crime (McGinnis and Foege, 1999). Nationally representative surveys have indicated that, in rural areas, not only are there higher mortality and injury rates but also adolescents are more likely to use prescription of unauthorized drug, than people in urban areas.
Bourgois States, United State Federal law enforcement agencies spend over 4 billion a year incarcerating at least three quarters of a million people on marijuana charges, sally merely on charges of possession (Bourgois, 2003).

The decline in casual drugs use may be unrelated to the war on drugs. Furthermore, stressors at a macro level such as economic deprivation, inequality, structural discrimination, and other pervasive stressors in the environment may serve as risk factors for drug use. Also family and peer influence is a strong correlate of drug use. The widespread prevalence of use of marijuana among youth, continues to generate a moral panic, even though evidence states that marijuana usage causes few significant health or behavioral problems to vast majority of the people who consume

it.
The note of incarceration was new in American, there are more prisoners in American than most of the world. It started in the 1820, where alcohol use was high. American incarnation rate was high from 1920-1970 about a 100000 thousand. In 1970 was the beginning on war on drugs and the end of the civil right movement (Web NP). The decline in casual drugs use may be unrelated to the war on drugs, however, cigarette smoking and excessive use of hard liquor are also dangerous because of the greater awareness of health dangers. This is not to say that marijuana is harmless to everyone.
Criminalization, and traffication has dramatically increased the profit gotten of marijuana and also the violence surrounding its trafficking. Furthermore, ‘millions of vulnerable lives are ruined as large sectors of poorly educated destructive youth serve prison terms for selling trivial amount of marijuana’ (bourgeois, 2003). Young people are incarcerated each year by their parole officers for failing their drug test during a random drug test. The war on drugs has clearly failed, hard drugs are now more potent and easier to buy than ever before. The truth, is crimes rates do not explain the sudden and dramatic mass incarnation in the past 30 years. Drugs offenders alone account for about two-third of the increase in the federal inmate population and more than half of the increase in the state prison population. Michelle notes:
The drug war has never been focused on rooting out drugs kingpins or violent offenders. Federal funding flows to those agencies that increase dramatically the volume of drugs arrests, not the agencies most successfully in bring down the bosses. What get rewarded in most this war is sheer numbers of drugs arrests to make matters worse, federal drugs forfeiture laws allows state and local law enforcements agencies to keep their own use 80 percent of the cash, car, and homes seized from drug suspects, thus granting law enforcement a direct monetary interest in the profitability of the drug market. (Alexander)
The pharmacological effects of a drug are not the sole determinate of its potential harm.

If we are able to control or neutralize the effect of tetrahydrocannabonoid a chemical component in marijuana which affects the brain neurotransmitter. I know of a man who will power cocaine in a clear bag and inhale it. The adhesive have strong chemical component that gets him high, there by damaging his brain cells. Poverty strives youth, dire to extent the special importance and the connection between socially structured vulnerability and destructive drugs consumptions. Especially in a country like the United States which a positive social services infrasture provoke who has grownup due in dire poverty in east Harlem New York (Bourgeois 2003).. From a risk reduction perspective, it is important that we take seriously the possibility that the increase in marijuana use has been reducing alcohol and narcotic drugs consumption. The greatest harm caused by marijuana comes from the damage of illegal harm it has cause in our cities and

communities.
A medical historian professor David Musto said “that the war on drugs started a 100 years ago, when protestant Missionaries and other American religious group from the US working in China convinced Congress that drugs were evil and drugs users were dangerous, and immoral people”. The religious groups mainly believed these foreign drugs users to be moral threat to American. Still others were humanly concerned with the obvious damage that this sinful and immoral behavior caused among the inferior races swayed Congress to enact laws (Musto, NP).
The process of legislating criminal behavior is vital in analyzing America’s war on drugs, given the of emotion surrounding the drug war, and the mandatory prison sentences Even children were free to enter a pharmacy or a general sale store to purchase morphine, opium, cocaine, cannabis, and other nostrums that today trigger heavy criminal penalties for possession or sale. In those days the popular beverage contained medicinal equivalents (Joseph D).
In 1914, a government publicly advocating the reduction of crimes, passed legislation creating unknown millions of crimes (McNamara P 2). Drugs had to be outlawed because ‘cocaine raised the specter of the wild negro, opium the devious Chinese, morphine the trumps in the slum’. Harrison Ant-Narcotics Act, became the cornerstone of USA criminal drug control policy. The Harrison act of 1914 made congree allowed cannabis in 1937, Marijuana tax act, which also eventually receives federal court appeal as a penal state. Health care cost of the drugs was not left out ( Joseph p 2).