Drugs

Drugs America’s inception as a country was founded in smuggling and illegal trade; with that in mind it is of no surprise that drug use and or abuse is a large part of our culture and a fixture in our collective minds. Children today in America go through mandatory drug education (DARE), federal employees are subjected to mandatory drug testing, and all professional athletes are subjected to those as well. Still, even with so many preventative measures being taken to curb Americans from drug use our prison system is choked with drug offenders, and by “drugs” I am referring to the standard grouping of “illegal substances” in this country: what are classified as illegal, naturally derived drugs: hallucinogens, narcotics, opiates, and marijuana. The fact of the matter is that the use of these afore-mentioned drugs has reached an all time high in this country. When an observer to this situation sees only what is occurring presently as the problem, then they are wholly misguided. Drug u! se has always been, and most likely always will be a popular pastime in the United States, and in fact drug use per capita is only higher, at least my opinion, because of stringent government inter-action drug, opium, drugs, american, marijuana, americans, over, until, country, being, been, america, time, new, illegal, years, united, states, plant, opiates, off, hemp, first, fact, cocaine, taken, substances, substance, say, saw, recreational, popular, one, now, made, influence, history, heroin, culture, consumption, became, against, after, world, within, west, wasn’t, very, usa, trade, through