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This 8 page paper cites numerous court cases in the support of the thesis that the war on drugs is unwinnable. Four major reasons are outlined and exampled. Conclusions based on research offered. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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and seemingly forgotten. In an examination of past laws of prohibition and the devastation it brought to the United States, as well as counting the cost, then it becomes quite
clear that the cost of funding this punitive war far exceeds the cost of preventing it. Case after court case has been waged on the highest levels and even they
have not been able to propose policies which have been shown to be of any affect. If one stopped to consider how much money is being wasted to combat a
losing battle, one begins to see that it is globally irresponsible, disproportionately harms racial minorities, the underprivileged and women, and breeds corruption and violence in the US and abroad. To this
end, the war is not winnable and more importantly is unconstitutional. In order to understand the full ramification of this claim of unconstitutionality one must go back for a
brief visit to when it all began. The altruistic notion of ridding our streets of crime and providing protection for our children from drug addicts was never the real motive.
It was the rationalization, to be certain, but in light of past evidences (Iran-Contra for example) it becomes clear that the real reason a war on drugs was established was
to further global policies under the guise of another name; global policies which would never have been supported by the American People had they really known what it was at
the time. The War on Drugs was initiated, not by the American people, but the big business. Shocking but true, the large oil companies lobbied against the use of
hemp or the production of marijuana in the US as early as the 1930s(Gonsalves 2002). Production of hemp cigarettes and products threatened to compete with the large corporations already
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