ANTH106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Your Choice Records, Harm Reduction, Sea Serpent
31 May 2018
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ANTH106 Week 8 The War on Drugs
- Quiz: President Nixon intatied war on drugs in 1970s, national threat and public
enemy – easy sell to get elected
- Revived link in public mind between
- Nixon respoibsle for extending war on drugs aborad = took to UN to attack sources
of drugs and bring war on drugs outside the US
- Foreign drug traffickers labelled national enemies by Nixon – big change – politic
- 1980s, resurgence, anti-drug gov expanded bush and ragen
- Quiz: Bush sig. increase involvement of miliarty to Latin America mostly bore the
brunt of US miliaritisation of war on drugs
- 3 major protagonsists and supply side policies – United States, United Nations 1991,
UNODC
Drug War supply-side strategy
- Was on supply and fought in three stages
- Erradcition or crop resibstitution
- 1. 1986 – reduction of foreign aid if country is source of drugs unless instatute
eradticition
- 2. Intercept drugs on route or on borders of US and
- 3. Drug enforcement seize and arrest
- Law enforcement assumption – making soethig epesie does’t stop people
from wanting it
- Measuring effectiveness on war on drugs these failed
Money Spent
- Huge increase in budget
- Employs 11,000 people
- Quiz: Obama decreased funds for international drug control and increased funds for
treatment and intervention
- Despite huge expense war on drugs still failing
- Forture laws
Drug War Failure
- Ireasig oe for la eforeet, ou’d thik redutio ut slo ad stead
increase in illicit drug use
- Money spent to stop usage and drugs coming in but no effect on people using or
distributing illicit drugs
- Increase acrease world = slow and steady increase
- Failure in US, abroad for drug use rates,
- cultivation no sig. decrease
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Document Summary
Quiz: president nixon intatied war on drugs in 1970s, national threat and public enemy easy sell to get elected. Nixon respoibsle for extending war on drugs aborad = took to un to attack sources of drugs and bring war on drugs outside the us. Foreign drug traffickers labelled national enemies by nixon big change politic. 1980s, resurgence, anti-drug gov expanded bush and ragen. Quiz: bush sig. increase involvement of miliarty to latin america mostly bore the brunt of us miliaritisation of war on drugs. 3 major protagonsists and supply side policies united states, united nations 1991, Was on supply and fought in three stages. 1986 reduction of foreign aid if country is source of drugs unless instatute eradticition. Intercept drugs on route or on borders of us and. Law enforcement assumption making so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g e(cid:454)pe(cid:374)si(cid:448)e does(cid:374)"t stop people from wanting it. Measuring effectiveness on war on drugs these failed.
