The_War_Against_Drugs

The War Against Drugs The War Against Drugs Under the United States Constitution the federal government is charged with the responsibilities to protect our individual, as well as collective, rights to life and liberty. Often times this charge leads the various branches of the federal government to create, implement, and enforce policy that is designed to protect society from itself. Noble in it¡¦s ambition the result although not apparent initially, sometimes does more to hinder the rights of the citizens it is attempting to protect, and/or the cost of doing so becomes a higher price than that of the cost that is being avoided. In this case it is necessary to re-evaluate the situation and explore any alternatives that may offer a more fathomable solution. In the„«both protection of rights as well as the cost of so doing. late 1980¡¦s the United States government made such policy and today the results have done little to resolve the problem and have left the country closer to the danger it sought to prevent. The policy is known as the ¡§ War on Drugs¡¨. Initially the drug prohibition was, however idealistic, a valiant attempt to rid the country of this terrible ¡§enemy¡¨. The objectives drug, policy, drugs, prohibition, government, cost, rights, people, liberty, illicit, federal, billion, states, one, hundred, war, percent, positive, dollars, bush, thousand, society, price, negative, estimated, enforcement, crimes, united, two, rise, protect, prison, prevent, per, limited