Marijuana__The_Facts_And_The_Media_Coverage

Marijuana: The Facts And The Media Coverage A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The “war on drugs” was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. Others feel- that this heightened media coverage is a direct result of the consequences of drugs and drug abuse. For whatever reasons that the media was there, the participants in this pro and con attitude that surrounded the “war on drugs,” used any platform that the media could provide them with to speak their thoughts on the subject. The proprietors of these thoughts and words were people of all types. They ranged from professors, to congressmen, to prisoners of the “war on drugs.” All of these people had something to say and the media was there to listen to most all of it. In the following pages two opposite views about the “war on drugs” will be looked at. Those who believe the war on drugs is effective, and those drugs, war, marijuana, drug, seems, government, been, time, united, states, years, money, going, even, dollars, coverage, america, sense, never, illegal, go, country, countries, common, cocaine, billions, about, waste, table, society, since, seem, pot, person, people, out