Persuasive Essay On War On Drugs

In 2004 Obama said: "The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws… we need to rethink how we operate the drug wars." according to the website http://www.commondreams.org. When the war on drugs was declared everyone thought it would be a could idea. Not knowing that in 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared the war on drug, his plan would only result in trillions of dollars wasted on an endless battle that couldn't be won. President Nixon brought it to the attention of america that america’s number one public enemy is drug abuse. The term “War on Drugs” was used as a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention, with the assistance of participating countries, intended to define and reduce the illegal drug trade.
Problem number is racial injustice. Where the police are arresting and pursuing mostly African-Americans and Hispanic people just because of their skin color. Even though the rate of drug use and the selling of those drugs are comparable across racial lines. People of color have a much higher chance to get searched, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites. When it comes down to it the rate of drug use and sale is roughly equal between races. But African-American men are arrested at 13 times the rate of white men on drug charges in the U.S, with a rate of up to 57 times in some states. Colored people which included African-american and Latinos together make up 29 percent of the total U.S. population, but about 75 percent of drug law violators in state or federal prison. Which proves that the law enforcement focus more on other races than there