In the early 1900's Americans realized that alcohol and other types of drugs popular at the time were being abused and thought it may be a good idea to criminalize their use to stop the problems that their use and abuses caused. Legislation was introduced and made into laws, outlawing alcoholic beverages on January 29th, 1920, Marijuana in 1937, cocaine, and other mind altering drugs. It took our government 13 years to admit that these laws were a …
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…forward in an educational and realistic approach? Why don't we as a nation realize that the war on drugs is really a war on American tax payers? Our laws and our demand are ruining other countries as well as the poor farmers are trying to take the only crops worth any money to the market and every day risk being killed by American soldiers in helicopters and airplanes in the so called war on drugs.