Secretary General Kofi Annan and past presidents of Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. ... The report criticizes those who believe the war on drugs has been effective thus far. ... The one thing we cannot afford to do is to go on pretending the war on drugs is working" (BBC News). However, the U.S. and Mexican governments immediately dismissed the report and vowed to continue their violent 4.5 year-old crackdown on cartels that has resulted in more than 38,000 Mexican deaths. ... Instead, Mexico continues its enforcement-based approach that dominates drug policies worldwide (Ellingwood). ...

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For example, in Mexico, there is not a major drug use problem, but it has caused a destabilizing effect within the country because of the power struggle between the drug cartels fighting for key drug distribution routes which have caused an estimated 60,000 deaths within Mexico since 2006 (BBC, 2014). ... -Mexico border alone, and countless billions supplying the Mexican government with equipment to combat the cartels (Council on Foreign Relations, 2014). ... There is no clear solution in solving America's drug problem, but serious solutions should be explored as the War on Drugs is not w...

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The 1960s presented a different issue for the war on drugs in its entirety. ... In 1973 Nixon dispatched an enormous interdiction operation in Mexico. ... Hundreds of millions of dollars was spent on closing the border, virtually ending trade between Mexico and the United States. Nixon's efforts proved valiant, Mexico was no longer supplying marijuana to the United States although Columbia quickly substituted. ... Reagan's war on drugs became known as the "zero tolerance" program. ...

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THE WAR AGAINST MARIJUANA ..A LOSING BATTLE Marijuana, also known as hemp, pot, grass, weed, hash, chronic, as well as many other slang terms, has been around since 3750 B.C (Brief 1). ... However, a man named William Randolph, a popular journalist in America around 1930, began to write articles about "lazy Mexican marijuana smokers raping women and children after smoking the drug" (brief). ... Let's end the war. ...

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In his book, Anslinger portrayed images of Mexican and Negro criminals, as well as young boys, who became killers while under the influence of marijuana. ... At this point marijuana was removed from the public eye, and heavy users included poor Negroes, migrant Mexicans, and Jazz Musicians (Himmelstein 3). ... However, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1973 and over the next 20 years, each succeeding president continued to escalate the drug war. ... This war on drugs is wasting the money, as well as the lives of American people. ...

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These include: the institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians; American Bar Association; American Public Health Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine; AIDS Action Council; British Medical Association; California Academy of Family Physicians; California Legislative Council for Older Americans; California Medical Association; California Nurses Association; California Pharmacists Association; California Society of Addiction Medicine; California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church; Colorado Nurses Association; Consumer Reports Magazine; Kais...

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