War_on_Drugs

War on Drugs Far from Over It has been over thirty-one years since the United States first waged the ”War on Drugs.” This war has cost hundreds of billions of dollars to fight and has given our country many mixed results. We have seen fluctuations in the numbers over the years, which are, can be linked to different social fads and political agendas. Despite the enormous amount of money we have spent to rid our country of illegal drugs, we still have four million Americans addicted today. Stricter drug laws have caused there to be an overflow of prisoners convicted of drug charges and have transformed these people into tax burdens instead of taxpayers. Through the investigation of the drug war with President Nixon, through the peak of drug use in the late 70’s to the rise of crack in the 80’s and into the legalization of Marijuana, This paper will explain why drugs continue to flow into America at an alarming rate and try and uncover the effectiveness of the war. Beginning in 1970, Congress passes the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control act. In addition to consolidating previous anti-drug laws, the act provides federal funding drug, drugs, war, countries, cocaine, over, control, president, policy, people, government, federal, billion, programs, prison, plan, new, enforcement, cartels, united, states, spending, policies, need, money, million, little, law, issues, crime, anti-drug, act, abuse, about, years