TOPIC: The ‘War on Drugs’: Do you think these attempts to control drug consumption have succeeded or failed? If you could change drug policy, what would you do differently and why? What

TOPIC: The 'War on Drugs': Do you think these attempts to control drug consumption have succeeded or failed? If you could change drug policy, what would you do differently and why? What steps would you take to make drug control more effective?

1. Read Drug Control The Great American Flop.pdf

2. Read Brief History of the Drug War

3. Watch Aljazeera's debate on the War on Drugs: Who Benefits from the War on Drugs—links

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4. Next, watch this brief two-minute video and read the related article: Controversial use of informants: Case Study of Past FSU Student or Rachel's Law – 10 years later

5. Find supporting statistics here: https://drugpolicy.org/issues/drug-war-statistics

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Using these resources, consider the effectiveness of the War on Drugs.

• Do you think these attempts to control drug consumption have succeeded or failed?
• If you could change drug policy, what would you do differently and why?
• What steps would you take to make drug control more effective?
• You must include at least three in-text citations referencing materials for this assignment; one must be from the article "Drug Control: The Great American Flop."
• Your assignment must address all parts of the prompt, be spelling and grammar error-free, contain three in-text citations, and be between 300-500 words long.