CURRENT US POLICY ON DRUG CONFUSED,
HYPOCRITICAL AND ATTRACTS CRIME - PART 2 their
field to sustain themselves
socially. Again the AUTHORITIES had their fingers
in the funds to buy arms to be used by the Special Forces.
Apart from the confusion in the legal policy and
implementation, there is also the
hypocritical sense of the whole US
drugs policy. Paul Hager, a famous philosopher is yet to see the
point of having a constitution that purports to tackle drugs related
crime only for it to be inept depending on who and under what
circumstances. He goes further to take exception with the manner in
which the related
constitutional amendments are carried out piece
meal and selectively, with his loudest complain being why the Federal
is left out at the most contentious amendments. Then there is the
substantive due process that is supposed to permit doctors to use
marijuana on medicinal grounds. And although this is a constitutional
right, there have been several ruling by judges to insinuate that
they are ignorant of this law.
The evidence on the failed US drug policy has
been pouring in their volumes from all quotas of either affected or
partners who participated in the war on drugs internationally.
Richard Davenport (2001) decried the sense of only apprehending a
smaller fraction of consignment, when clearly the baron were still
breaking even going by the street values and their continued
motivation to traffic. When Dr V’s Private Hell, publicly advocated
for cannabis, these was a constitutional law in place, only chose to
go silent. Only one rare straight talker, Alberto Fujimori of Peru,
had the moral authority to declare the US drug policy a lame duck
whose war effort were indirectly proportional to the results.
More sad statistics have been trickling in to the effect that
the more and more adolescent have been involved in drugs related
cases from possession, trafficking, consumption and even sales. The
recent figures show that nearly 0.8 millions are involved with a
standard deviation of 0.1 million annually ever since 1975. However,
nearly $7 billion is spent annually by the US on the crusade from
arrests, rehabilitation to prosecution and jails. Perhaps when
confusions like the government classification of marijuana as
schedule 1 which is opposes nature medicine scientific belief are
sorted, there will be some saving and light at the end of the tunnel.
Redlich Warren (2005), was quoted, “It is true that the
approach suggested in this paper would limit the police power.
Constitutional protection of individual rights exists for that very
purpose. We face coercive government action, carried out in a corrupt
and racist manner, with military and paramilitary assaults on our
homes, leading to mass incarceration and innocent deaths. We can
never forget the tyranny of a government unrestrained by an
independent judiciary. Our courts must end the War on Drugs.”
(Redlich 2005)
While the war on drugs has been going tough on some
citizens, the have been slowly moving toward alcohol consumption at
an alarming rate. Some citizens are said to be consuming a
combination of both. Industrial volume production has not helped in
the calls for the reduction of alcohols in the US and the current
state could be rightly describes as a crisis. The effect of alcohol
can be assessed from either economic blow to social ramifications.
Yet the alcoholic drug addiction has not discriminated racial,
culturally and gender wise. However substantial evidence shows that
there are worst statistics from the age of 28 years, after college.
At this age many people have been living in denial of early addiction
syndrome and have been justifying that they are merely have a
recreational sip. The effect of the policing therefore has been a
cost of $ 20 Billion a year.
The most commonly associated crime with alcohol has been
gender violence, sexual offences, traffic offences as well as work
absconding. The furthest the law of US goes is on the prohibition of
minors and the level of alcohol for drivers. Yet the medical
consequences of alcohol are wide and include loss of vital organs and
death. Not to under look the social factor of family life relations
lost opportunities, lost family loved ones.