War on Drugs

   In 1800 drugs drugs first emerged in the United States. Opium became very popular, then came Cocaine, Morphine and Heroin.In those day Cocaine and Heroin was more with African American compared to other race. In the 19th century Cocaine and Opium reached epidemic proportion and then local Governments began to ban their importation. In the 1950's the drug use grew among Americans and spread widely in 1960's, most especially among black communities. In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs and he proclaim that America's enemy number one in the United States is  Drug abuse. Nixon passed policies that reflect both temperance view and disease view of addiction. In the movie. It was often associated with the poor people without parent and had to lead their own live. 

                  The people who are indirectly involved in this war are the families of drug dealers and drug users. In this movie it has been found that about 2.7 million children are leading their lives without their parents, who are either drug dealers or drug victims. 

 It is learn from the movie that the drug law has sentence more people to prison. some of these victims do not receive a fair trail because the crimes they comment do not deserve the punishment. A black victim will receive a severe punishment compared to white how commit the same crime. This shows that race was a factor in this war.