Drugs and Crime

Drugs and Crime

What’s the worst combination you can think of? How about drugs and crime? Between state and federal prisoners, 35 percent of them are in jail for a drug related crime. Drugs have been in America for years slowly increasing in number and continuing to cause problems in the U.S. Drug dealers have always found a way to smuggle in drugs, have them distributed and have the money that is spent on the drug returned to them. Also, poor people have found ways to use junk to make powerful drugs like meth or just use over the counter medicine for a quick high. I think that in America that most crimes can be linked to drugs, because people will do anything for the money that you can make off the drug , for the drug itself and also whatever off the wall thing a drug could influence you to do.

There’s no telling how long drugs have actually been in America but we do know it’s been a long time. Marijuana was one of the first major drug problems to surface in the U.S. Its’ legal use is used for medical and recreational purposes. Regulation began as early as 1619. By the 1930’s cannabis was regulated by every in every state, even the states that adopted the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act. However, in the 1970’s many places in the United States started to abolish state laws and other local regulations that banned possession or sale of marijuana. The drug being regulated is also in conflict with federal laws stating; marijuana is a schedule one drug according to the Controlled Substance Act of 1970, which classified marijuana as a high risk for abuse, no medical use, and not safe to use without medical supervision. The United States Supreme Court has ruled in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyer’s Cooperative and Gonzales v. Raich that the federal government has a right to regulate and criminalize cannabis, even for medical purpose. Now you can even use a welfare credit card to purchase marijuana in states that regulate the drug.

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