Research an Angle

With the research that was done, a very interesting angle was.  That angle is that this war on drugs is destroying lives for many reasons, that does not include death caused by illegal drugs.  The research states that many different thing, but one that was interesting was that by legalising drugs the crime and deaths would go down.  As well as not spending so much money.   The author of the research that was read brought up an interesting point that said, "making all illegal drugs legal would bring down the number of deaths and crimes."  This is because, it would put drug lords and terrorists out of business for the lack of money.  Therefore the drug dealing business would not be as competitive and there would be no need for them to kill one another.  

The reason the drug dealing business is so competitive according to Jack Cole the author of  "The War on Drugs Is Destroying Lives," is because "the value of these products virtually by up to 17,000 percent increase between where they're grown, mainly, in third world countries, like, as you know, Afghanistan, Colombia, and where they're sold in Los Angeles, or New York City."  That causes for competition and also killings among drug lords and gangsters.  

Another reason why this war on drugs is ruining so many lives is because, the laws and policies for it are more or less corrupt.  For example police are allowed to take any force of action when they "believe" that there are drugs involved.  Therefore, that makes it an unfair fight because police are known to place illegal drugs in order to make an arrest.  And like the author Jack Cole, " if we legalise drugs tomorrow, it would be too late as far as I'm concerned, because today we're going to destroy a lot more lives by arresting people."

In conclusion, as the research showed what the U.S. government is doing against with this war on drugs is not working.  They need a different approach in order to win this fight.  But who will be the one to bring change? Barack Obama?