A Real Life Breaking Bad: How and Why the War on Drugs Has Failed in New Mexico
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2016-07-06
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The United States has one of the toughest anti-drug policies in the world. For over 40 years they have been fighting a so-called “War on Drugs” but data shows that drug use in the United States is at an all-time high. In fact, the United States remains the largest consumer of illicit drugs in the world. This Bachelor’s thesis seeks to find out what effects this War on Drugs has had on American society by using the state of New Mexico as a case study. After discussing the effects of the War on Drugs, this thesis will try to discover the reasons why the War on Drugs remains a large source of social and economic problems in the United States and has not booked any of the results that it was intended to book even though the War on Drugs has been going on for decades.
Keywords: War on Drugs, New Mexico, incarceration rates, corruption, health, balloon effect, cockroach effect, legalization, decriminalization, social security doctrine
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