Drug Trafficking Is Wasting Our Tax Dollars
| It is strange that a person convicted of murder in the United States can expect punishment of less than 6 years in prison but a person having 5 grams of cocaine will be expected to pay a fine up to $2 million and a stay of 40 years in prison without parole. |
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The United States is trying very hard to fight the drug war for over 3 decades but it all seems a waste of our tax dollars. Towards the end of 1960s, it was Richard Nixon who started the drug war to hide his illegal espionage activities. Even after Nixon was impeached, the drug trafficking was blamed for all evil and crime in our society. Every person who spoke against drugs was applauded, and in 1973 Nelson Rockefeller, the then governor of New York, gave a state address insisting that every illegal drug dealer should be put away for life without parole. Within months of the laws to this regard came into effect and soon other states also followed suit.
This led to the prisons getting filled with illegal drug traffickers and users who were being sentenced from anywhere between 5 years and life. New prisons were built in America to house the increasing number of drug users. Overnight federal and state budget to fight drugs increased. Attempts were being made to cease the drugs before they made it into the country.
Unfortunately, despite all this, drug use in the US has increased steadily and this just points to one thing that the war on drugs is lost and we are wasting our tax dollars by allowing the government to continue waging this war.
Drug traffickers are now trafficking drugs that are cheaper and purer. In addition, illegal drugs are more easily available today than every before. While we are busy combating drug trafficking, we are forgetting about the problem of addiction. Nearly 57 percent of Americans who need drug treatment do not get it. In prisons, the situation is even worse. Plus the state and federal budget is running into billions to stop drug trafficking. This means that the harder the government tries to stop drug use, the more money it is going to cost an average American.
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