what were the preceived moral and social implications to society cause by prohibition and war on drugs?
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Not much. This isn't a really an answer but prohibition on alcohol in the 1920's didn't work. As long as there a demand\nfor drugs and alcohol there will always be a way to find it legal or not. I lived in Holland and Marijuana was legal. A lot of other drugs were legal. The crime rate was VERY low.\nYou could go to your pharmacist and get heroin by prescription. This country still has a moral problem viewing drug addiction as a crime rather than a disease. Like alcoholism. It's harder to quit and does more damage than heroin addiction. This country needs to wake up and realize that if people want help it is there for them . If they want their disease to progress that is yup to them also.\nI hope I helped
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Thats an interesting one my friend.My belief,unfortunately is ,that they already are!\nPirates and bandits, as long as there was no harming of innocents, were held in some reverence thanks to the poor being unharmed. Usually it was the "rich" who were robbed.\nDrug gangs harm every pillar of society in the most undiscerning way.\nTheir legacy has led to a complete dumming down of society.  Keep them ignorant and addictive= POWER. Indirectly supported by some governments.Great line of questioning though .\nTake a look at http://thebaldchemist.blogspot.com for a view of life.Take care my friend.
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Drugs, ignorance, and just being losers in general were all contributing factors.
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drugs are seriously bad for you\none bad reaction to a pill can kill\none pint will hardly have any affect( in most people lol )\n\ndrug users create a huge problem for society. a high percentage of criminals are involed in drugs in one way shape or form.\nmental health is a huge problem for most hard core drug users.\ni not saying alcohol - drink are faultless, not at all in fact our streets are not safe after closing time most nights\n\nhowever rather than throwing our hands up and saying we give up we cant cope or deal with you. we must continue to strive to help those affected by drugs, users and their friends/families.\n\nwe must not create a free for all society where anything goes.\nwe are adults and have choice but some people make the wrong choices.\nlaws protect people from criminals and by legalising drugs you are in a round about way legalisiing the actions of people in an altered state( much the same as drunk behaviour, sorry gov i didnt mean to run her over i was drunk etc)\n\nmaking aware the facts of drugs is a great thing to do but what good does it do to a 15 yr old who dies due to bad reaction...many known cases.\n\ndrink and smoke are also addictive but the effects are medically researched and reported. they also do not not need criminal acts to fund.\nthe effect of drugs on mental health are totally incomplete and research is already showing links to schizoprenia and other mental illness'\n\nlets hope that progress is made and we can combat all of societys ilness'\nbut meanwhile \n\ndont give up trying
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it's definitely a matter of individual responsibility.  what kind of world would this be if all the crimes were blamed on america's dysfunction?  it would be chaos 24/7 in america if people could blame their crimes on society.  but when it comes down to it, everything is a matter of individual responsibility.  ultimately, you make the choice to do what you do.  whether it's getting drunk, smoking a joint, beating up a gay person based on personal issues or killing someone because of God-only-knows what.  you make a decision to do what you do, society doesn't make you do anything.
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By making drugs illegal, the government makes them more expensive and more difficult to obtain. The newspaper Chicago Sun Times had done a series of articles years ago that suggested that Prohibition was not as ineffective as is normally accepted. In fact, by making alcohol illegal the government was not able to stop the consumption or alcohol completely, but was definitely able to dramatically lower the per capita consumption of alcohol. This was a direct result of alcohol being more expensive and more difficult to obtain.\n\nOne need only look at the practices of modern sales and advertising for legal but unhealthy items to see what the legalization of drugs would do to harm the US. Advertising and marketing of items like alcohol, fast food, over the counter stimulants, pornography, along with their ease of acquiring, leads to the overconsumption of these items. This overconsumption leads to horrendous national problems such as a generally unhealthy lifestyle, shortened life spans, loss of productivity, increases in health care costs, and indirectly to the further erosion of the family, increases in the rate of bankruptcy, etc.\n\nAs the magazine THE ULTIMATE UNKNOWN has stated, the legalization of recreational drugs would lead to their legitimization, and that would lead to their general acceptance and overindulgence by everyone.
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Wow -- already destroyed so many brain cells that you can't spell legalize ... their ... \n\nOBVIOUSLY, you have not yet realized the problems associated with an addictive and dangerous substance -- don't we already have enough problems in society already with the substances that are used (even alcohol and tobacco -- both cause death/serious injuries or harm to those who DO NOT use them).
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not sure. but my guess is how society changes in respect to it's opinions on politics- as in more or less liberal/conservative. or how politics and world events may affect a society in general.
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gambling, gun ownership, drinking age, gay marriage, prostitution (legalization or not?), marijuana ...
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Drugs may have been the biggest impact.
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Racial profiling is the *reason* for the war on the drugs.
666757
Depends on your idea of morality. Our society is certainly more tolerant about matters like sex outside of marriage and homosexuality. And our commitment to some ideals of economic justice has definitely diminished. But we have become much less tolerant of domestic violence, drunk driving, and racial discrimination. The lists could go on and on and on. Like in every other age and time, some things get 'better' while some get 'worse'.
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I can forsee many social impacts from the potential legalization of marijuana.\n\npros \nFarmers will have a viable cash crop\nTax monies can be collected from the sales\nCigarette companies could package it and promote less tobacco use\nLess criminals in an already crowded legal system\nMany drug dealers would be put out of business and foreign imports of the drug curbed\nLess need for other means of getting high\n\ncons\nFurther class separation\nWorkforce productivity impact and drug related injury increases\nAnother source for family breakdown\nGenerational dependency issues\nIncreased lung and heart disease incidents and other long-term effects of chronic usage
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A very good question.  \n\n1. The inherently racist laws since the founding of this country.\n2. Ridiculous punishments for using/selling illegal drugs.  If you research why most drugs because illegal in the first place it was because of racism.  \n3. Because of the large number of impoverished black communities the options for young minority men are limited.\n4. Something must be said for the glamourized thug representation that is the main portrait of black men in the media and the history of latino machismo that sanctions violence.  Not to say white men are so peaceful but they get away with things more since the judges and juries are usually white as well.\n\n\n" The United States is way ahead of the rest of the industrial world in imprisoning its own population. That's for population control. None of that has anything to do with crime. "\nNoam Chomsky, American linguist and US media and foreign policy critic\n\n" Working class addiction to crack (cocaine) is a crime. But, middle- and upper-class addiction to drugs or alcohol is a disease. "\nSabina Virgo - Criminal Injustice\n\n"The state of California has opened only one college since 1984 -- and twenty-one prisons."\nElliott Currie, Crime and Punishment in America
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Parental neglect, peer pressure, lack of self esteem, lack of motivation, lack of supervision and genetic propensity to addiction.\n\nTeens who use drugs are found in every race and every socio-economic level.
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Well due to the dominant conservative ideology we have in the country, I don't believe that we can ever legalize drugs. Conservatives see legalization as a means of condoning its practice and use. Despite eliminating the flow of money towards organized crime, and essentially ending the "war on drugs," the decriminalization of substance abuse and legalized sales of drugs is seen as a ineffective solution.
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The real reason for the drug war is because politically it sounds good.  Families can be devistated when family members are hurt or killed because of the drug trade, or by the loss of family members to addiction - Those families vote and so politicians saw an opportunity to garner votes without thinking it through.\n\nWe can NEVER win the war on drugs, but it is NOT exactly like prohibition, the cost on society if all drugs were legalized would be HUGE for rehab etc.\n\nUnfortunately, even without a chance at winning AND the fact it was a political move to get votes, I still think it is something that should still be fought.