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Please read the article by Robert C. Bonner, “The New Cocaine Cowboys: How to Defeat…
Crack is part of the stimulants family. This drug is one the drug that the high isn’t that long. “Crack smokers achieve maximum physiological effects approximately two minutes after inhalation. Maximum psychotropic effects are attained approximately one minute after inhalation. Similar to intravenous administration, the physiological and psychotropic effects of inhaled cocaine are sustained for approximately 30 minutes after peak effects are attained.”(Drug-effects.com) After reading this I now understands why people chase a crack high more. When smoking crack some of the mental affect that come with it is the magnification of pleasure, euphoria, alertness and in some cases - hyper-alertness, ,increased and sometimes a (grandiose) sense of well-being, and decreased anxiety. “The long term effect of crack use is an increased risk of psychological disorder, such as agoraphobia, depression, and psychosis. Users may experience agitation, mood swings, and the inability to experience pleasure. One of the most severe symptoms of long term crack use is psychosis and delusions that resemble schizophrenia. Sometimes untreatable, this symptom may persist throughout the user's…
Although Richard Nixon first declared a “war on drugs” in 1971, the war escalated during the Reagan presidency and shifted its focus from treatment toward incarceration and law enforcement. As George Moss and Evan Thomas explain, Reagan came to Washington “committed to waging a war on drugs and bringing the international drug trade under control” in 1981. Thanks to the rise of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia and other cartels in Latin America during the 1980s, illegal drug trade networks flourished, and America became “the world’s major consumer of illicit drugs.” This increased usage of drugs led to many social crises, including heightened urban crime and health problems, which encouraged both the Reagan administration and private groups…
What are some short-term effects of using cocaine? Some short-term effects of using cocaine are as follows: Constricted blood vessels, increases blood pressure and heart rate. It also produces feelings of euphoria as well as anxiety, depression, and excitement. It can also cause seizures and even an overdose. Other effects are increased temperature, and dilated pupils, nervousness, and some paranoia. It produces a feeling of increased energy and well-being. Long-term effects include erratic, delusional or paranoid paranoia. Smoking crack cocaine can produce a particularly aggressive paranoid behavior in users. When addicted individuals stop using cocaine, they often become depressed. Prolonged cocaine snorting can result in ulceration of the mucous membrane of the nose. Acute cocaine poisoning leads to profound CNS stimulations, progressing to convulsions, which can lead to respiratory or cardic arrest.…
“It [Plan Colombia] was initially conceived largely as an anti-narcotics collaboration, and that part of the plan was hardly a rousing success. Colombia’s drug trade was splintered but far from destroyed, while the drug cartels; logistical control of the trade simply shifted to Mexico. And coca production, which was reduced for a time largely through a controversial US-supported aerial eradication program, has surged back in some regions in recent…
Substance abuse and consumption have become an epidemic in America. The use of drugs results in countless drug-related deaths and causes states to spend billions of dollars to combat drug trafficking. Drugs are shipped in by sea, air, automobile, and even smuggled in by person. These drugs are supplied by drug cartels. These criminal organizations where formed to promote, control, produce, and distribute narcotic drugs. While these cartels operate from all parts of the world, some of the most infamous are the Mexican and Columbian Cartels. America has put policies into combating drug trafficking, however these policies are not effective as drug abuse is at a society crippling high.…
How is it possible that America, the strongest country in the world, cannot rid the use and sale of illegal drugs? First, we must take a look at what their policy includes. The Drug Wars’ “primary aim is to prohibit supply, so that Americans cannot find or cannot afford drugs to use; its secondary aim is to discourage those who do consume drugs, mainly by penalizing them,” (Bertram, pg. 3.) Still, with this policy and its lack of achievement, we deny any true change. “Despite a decline in casual drug use since the late 1970’s, and despite the billions of dollars spent to fight the drug war, the number of people suffering drug use or addiction, the level of violent drug-related crime, and the spread of diseases linked to drug…
There is one point to make here about crack cocaine and powder cocaine if they stop the importation of the powder form there will not be the crack form. This goes to show that maybe powder does cause more trouble than crack to start with. Or you can look at it another way if people would quit using illegal drugs they would be no sentencing disparities to challenge.…
A large portion of FARC’s profits now come from drug trafficking; however, they weren’t major drug traffickers when Plan Colombia was first implemented. Peter Dale Scott, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of several books on this topic, noted that the Colombian government estimated in 2001 that paramilitary groups controlled 40% of the cocaine exports; whereas the FARC controlled only 2.5%. The FARC had been more involved in the “taxing” of the drug trade, but they have since significantly increased their role in production by forcing farmers to grow cocaine. Economics and geopolitics are the clear reasons why the U.S. government implemented such a flawed drug policy which targets the FARC while turning a blind eye to the attacks committed by right-wing paramilitary groups.…
Drugs affect Colombian people in general. People need to read and know about it. There are a lot of information on the internet like documentaries, articles, and TV programs. After read and understand people could make a decision in favor or against. Some people are in favor of drugs with uses in treatments health. Other people are against because more young people will be encouraged to consume drugs. Colombia should be choosing by referendum if the drugs should…
Colombia's government and the rebel group FARC reached an agreement May 17, 2014 on ending the illegal drug trade. The deal called for FARC to cooperate with the government in convincing farmers to grow crops other than coca, which is used to make cocaine. The announcement was made Friday in Havana where the two sides have been negotiating an end to a 50-year-old insurgency. Colombia was the world's leading producer of cocaine until Peru recently overtook it in cultivation of coca. The cocaine industry has been the major source of funds for the Marxist rebel group and a cause of crime and instability in the South American country. With the agreement on ending the drug trade, the two sides have resolved three of the six points on their agenda. Previously FARC and the government had reached deals on agrarian reform and political participation.…
The first stage of cocaine intoxication is cocaine euphoria which is described as being similar to a manic episode. Individuals in stage one of cocaine intoxication display restless types of behavior such as rapid movements, insomnia and rapid speech are present in this first stage. Behaviors of hyper-alertness, hyper-sexuality and loss of appetite are also commonly associated in cocaine euphoria. Along with these restless behaviors, reports indicate that users experience increased pleasure and do not feel like sleeping because they have increased energy. These two affects of cocaine euphoria are relatively seen as positive effects of the drug which leads to continued use. In "The Boost", Lenny first enters the cocaine euphoria stage while he is in Joel's office at the first party at Joel's house. Lenny is down about sales and disappointed in his performance. Because Lenny's personality and desire for people to have a favorable opinion of him, he is willing to try anything to do better. For this reason he does a line of cocaine with Joel and instantly is uplifted. Lenny's wife notices his boost in confidence and increased energy which was a vast contrast from earlier in the night. Lenny also speaks rapidly and stays up late with his wife after the party, which as mentioned earlier are two effects of cocaine euphoria.…
It is estimated that $130 billion will be spent on cocaine alone at the end of 2015. 140 tons of cocaine is distorted yearly out of Latin America to Mexico, and around 80 tons to Europe. Dug trafficking starts with the manufacturing of drugs in countries with very lenient drug prohibition laws and/or little government supervision, countries such as China, Thailand and Mexico. Drug distribution has increased over the last decade, leading…
The estimated total of funding from the government has come close to almost $1.4 trillion dollars (Editorial; Nixon's drug war still hurts the poor). For more than forty years, America has funded efforts to suppress the importation of illegal drugs and has had little to no success. Looking at the outcomes of this war, the results are hundreds of thousands innocents dead in other foreign countries. As in Mexico alone, the total rate of homicides was estimated to 11 per 100,000 individuals in 2005; by 2010, it was 18.5 per 100,000 individuals (Enamorado). The effects of the domestic war on drugs is spilling into other countries as a power struggle for who will gain control of the large US market. If marijuana was legal, this effect would no longer be relevant. Individuals would be less likely to seek out and buy the drug for recreational use through illegal…