VIC136H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Diazepam, Arab Spring, Fluoxetine
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Marcocorrido a mexican song that celebrates drugs, drug use and drug smuggling/dealing. Among those in jail in the united states currently, there is a huge proportion of people that are there for drug or drug-related crime. The brothers who committed the attacks in paris were part of slums in paris who were drug dealers beforehand. The use of drugs are more to blame for islamic terrorists than actually islam. There are international and racial aspects of drugs. Racial aspects: there are a huge amount of black people in prison for drugs which is hugely disproportionate to the amount of white people for the same crimes. International aspects: there are places like mexico or even afghanistan where drug trade is a major trade that is not government regulated and acts as an alternative power structure. Bolivia has said no to the us for the war on drugs.