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Wakefield's daughter becomes a powerful character in the film because she proves to her father that the war on drugs fails to address the root cause of addiction.
Traffic therefore addresses several separate but interrelated issues: addiction, organized crime, law enforcement and legislation. Addiction is a fact of life; human beings become hooked on any number of legal and illegal substances. Banning drugs is no way to combat addiction. Therefore, the war on drugs does absolutely nothing to help people who use drugs to fulfill psychological needs. People who want drugs to ease their pain can always find them: on the black market or on the mainstream consumer market in the form of alcohol or prescription medications.
Organized crime is a genuine social problem that law enforcement officials worldwide must learn to deal with. Ironically, though, the war on drugs bolsters organized crime rings. The value of drug trafficking skyrockets when dealers have to risk their lives to move product. If drugs were legal, regulated like any other substance by fair rules of international trade and scrutinized by world health organizations, then organized crime would have no vested interest in drugs whatsoever. Organized crime is not a philosophy or religion; it is a business model. Remove the source of profit, and the model falls apart.
Law enforcement is portrayed in a realistic light in Traffic. Benicio del Toro plays Javier Rodriguez,...
The film's optimistic ending showing how Javier worked the war on drugs to the advantage of his Mexican village shows that not all cops are corrupt. On the other hand, Montel (Don Cheadle) shows how American law enforcement officials have lost sight of the true victims of the war on drugs. Bent on nabbing bad guys as if they were cowboys in a child's Western, cops like Montel are willing to break the law to apprehend drug dealers. If the point of the war on drugs is to create more order in society, then it has certainly failed. The war on drugs has made Americans forget the ultimate purpose of living in a free society: to live in a world in which citizens trust their government.
Drugs and drug trafficking are as old as humanity itself. No number of laws or regulations are going to eliminate drugs from human society. Drugs serve an important function in human societies too, and when they are used judiciously do not create addictions. Another facet of the war on drugs Soderbergh leaves out of Traffic is how the pharmaceutical industry is one of the world's most successful dealer. Traffic shows that the war on drugs is not about healing, is not about protecting society against some evil monster but is fully about money. Government agencies and the cartels they combat both benefit equally from the war on drugs.
Drug trafficking provides people with money and power. A lot of crimes are connected to drug trafficking. That is because the activity is often run by criminal organizations that make large profits from the selling of drugs and people. When criminals traffic drugs that frequently traffic humans as well. These people are often trafficked for sex, slave labor, and organs. When drug trafficking mixes with these kinds of crimes, national
In their efforts to put an end to the presence of drugs on U.S. territory, authorities have implemented tougher drug laws. "Congressman Barr has described the "War on Drugs" as a war for the very lives of our children." (Williams, Juan 2001) Even if there have been divergences in the past between the American government and drug abusers, it has not been until the 1970s that the actual war against drugs
An estimated 275 "metric tons" of cocaine (a metric ton is 90% of a full ton, which is 2,240 pounds) arrive in Mexico each year, ready for transport into the U.S. -- and of those 275 metric tons the authorities average seizing about 36 metric tons. Doing the math quickly that indicates that about 239 metric tons of cocaine arrive in the U.S. annually, according to the GAO figures. As
Drug Wars A Thin, Bloody Line Borders are artificial lines. Even when they follow natural divisions such as rivers or mountain ranges, borders are still artificial. They are imaginary lines that different governments (or other official groups of people) have decided marks the place on the earth where the authority and power of one group ends and the power and authority of the next group begins. Borders are in general a good idea
War on Drugs Following the Colombia's history, there has been a sequence of violence and conflicts perpetuated by class warfare ever since the Spanish era during land allocation and slavery in the country. The focus of this article will be to satisfactorily analyze the situation facing the Columbia, considering the efforts United States has been undergoing to militarize and centralize conflicts related to class. The States has been working ever since
Economists are concerned with the impact that the sale of drugs has on both individual and economic freedoms and frame their argument from this perspective. Others argue that reliance on the criminal justice system has not produced significant results and that it is time to reframe the argument to focus on the education, prevention, and treatment of drugs. From the economic perspective, there are apparent differences between government prohibition and