Assignment: The War on Drugs

Drugs and Crime: Drugs of Abuse and Law Enforcement's Efforts at Controlling Drug Abuse >

The war on drugs has been waged, officially, since the 1970s, although the history of combating drug use goes much further than that. The criminalization of drug use can often be associated with the individuals identified with using those drugs and socio-political influences. However, the war on drugs moved from a federal problem to a local initiative when the federal government unofficially ended the war on drugs (Fields, 2009).

Look for articles that cover specifically:

•The evolution of the war on drugs and how crimes were defined and prosecuted,
•Who was targeted by each phase of the war on drugs
•The social influences that drove some drugs to be criminalized while others were not.

5 pages no including reference page

3 scholarly journal articles.