War on Drugs
The war on drugs should not be continued. ... Yet, despite all of these arrests, illegal drugs are just as large a problem in today’s America as they’ve ever been. The United States spends at least 20 billion dollars annually to fund the war on drugs; not including the billions spent processing drug convicts through local law enforcement agencies. Proponents of the drug war say that this cost is worth paying to prevent the myriad crimes that come along with drug abuse, fund prevention programs such as D. ... This would be a reasonable assertion if the war on drugs was showing good results, but the results have been poor at best- D. ... has proven to be widely counter-effective, and drugs continue to run rampant everywhere today.