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In an unprecedented move this week President Trump suggested using capital punishment for
drug dealers in order to crack down on America's opioid epidemic.
The President's comments came just a few days after it was reported that he had been
praising Singapore's mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking offenses behind closed
doors.
Trump's senior aid, Kellyanne Conway, who runs anti-drug initiatives at the White House,
was quoted as saying that Trump's position isn't one-size-fits-all kind of initiative.
She went on to make it clear that the president isn't talking about your local marijuana
dealer who sells a few dollars, but instead, he wants to go after the high-level dealers
and kingpins who's sales of millions of dollars of Fentanol translate to hundreds
of casualties per week.Trump has also praised the Philippine President Roderigo Duterte,
who has led a massive extrajudicial crackdown on drugs in his country that has left thousands
of high-level drug dealers dead.
Last year, Trump even went as far as to contacting Duterte and told him he has done an "unbelievable
job on the drug problem."If this new way of combating the U.S. Drug crisis goes into
effect this would be the first time drug dealing would be classified as a capital offense.
Currently, the only drug dealers who qualify for the death penalty have been the ones which
have been involved in the murder or death of a law enforcement officer.
The president also made it clear he doesn't see a lenient approach to drug-related crimes
as being something that should be tolerated.
And isn't against the idea of implementing a campaign unlike Nancy Reagan's "Just
Say No" campaign of the 1980's where children were taught the dangers of drug abuse, along
with teaching the fact that they will die if they abuse drugs.Via History.com:
"The "Just Say No" movement was one part of the U.S. government's effort to
revisit and expand the War on Drugs.
As with most anti-drug initiatives, Just Say No—which became an American catch phrase
in the 1980s—evoked both support and criticism from the public.THE 80S CRACK EPIDEMIC
In the early 80s, a cheap, highly addictive form of cocaine known as "crack" was first
developed.
The popularity of crack led to an increase in the number of Americans who became addicted
to cocaine.
In 1985, the number of people who said they used cocaine on a routine basis increased
from 4.2 million to 5.8 million.
By 1987, crack was reportedly available in all but four states.
Emergency room visits for cocaine-related incidents increased four-fold between 1984
and 1987.
The crack epidemic particularly devastated African American communities—crime and incarceration
rates among this population soared during the 1980s.
REAGAN AND THE WAR ON DRUGS
When President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, he vowed to crack down on substance
abuse and reprioritize the War on Drugs, which was originally initiated by President Richard
Nixon in the early 1970s.
In 1986, Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.
This law allotted $1.7 billion to continue fighting the War on Drugs, and established
mandatory minimum prison sentences for specific drug offenses.
During the Reagan years, prison penalties for drug crimes skyrocketed, and this trend
continued for many years.
In fact, the number of people incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses increased from
50,000 in 1980 to more than 400,000 by 1997.
SAY NO TO DRUGS
President Reagan's wife, Nancy Reagan, launched the "Just Say No" campaign, which encouraged
children to reject experimenting with or using drugs by simply saying the word "no."
The movement started in the early 1980s and continued for more than a decade.
Nancy Reagan traveled the country to endorse the campaign, appearing on television news
programs, talk shows and public service announcements.
The first lady also visited drug rehabilitation centers to promote Just Say No.
Surveys suggest the campaign may have led to a spike in public concern over the country's
drug problem.
In 1985, the proportion of Americans who saw drug abuse as the nation's "number one
problem," was between 2 percent and 6 percent.
In 1989, that number jumped to 64 percent.
D.A.R.E.
PROGRAM
In 1983, the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Daryl Gates, and the Los Angeles
Unified School District started the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program.
The program, which still exists today, pairs students with local police officers in an
effort to reduce drug use, gang membership and violence.
Students learn about the dangers of substance abuse and are required to take a pledge to
stay away from drugs and gangs.
D.A.R.E. has been implemented in about 75 percent of U.S. school districts.
Despite the program's popularity, several studies have shown participating in D.A.R.E
has little impact on future drug use.
A study funded by the Department of Justice, which was released in 1994, revealed that
partaking in D.A.R.E led to only short-term reductions in the use of tobacco but had no
impact on alcohol or marijuana use.
In 2001, the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. David Satcher, put D.A.R.E in
the category of "ineffective primary prevention programs."
Proponents of D.A.R.E have called some of the studies flawed and say surveys and personal
accounts reveal that the program does in fact have a positive effect on future drug use.
In recent years, D.A.R.E has adopted a new "hands-on" curriculum, which advocates
believe is showing better results than more outdated approaches to curbing drug abuse.
SUPPORT AND CRITICISM FOR THE ANTI-DRUG WAR
Determining whether the War on Drugs movement was a success or failure depends on whom you
ask.
Supporters of the strict drug initiatives say the measures reduced crime, increased
public awareness and lowered rates of substance abuse.
Some research does, in fact, suggest that some aspects of the tough policies may have
worked.
A study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed that in
1999, 14.8 million Americans used illicit drugs.
In 1979, there were 25 million users.
However, critics say the 1980s version of the War on Drugs put too much emphasis on
deterrence tactics and not enough focus on drug treatment and substance abuse programs.
Another common criticism is that the laws led to mass incarceration for nonviolent crimes.
According to the Prison Policy Initiative, more than 2.3 million people are currently
being held in the American criminal justice system.
Nearly half a million people are locked up because of a drug offense.
Many people also felt the Reagan-era policies unfairly targeted minorities.
Part of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act included a heftier penalty, known as the "100-to-1
sentencing ratio," for the same amount of crack cocaine (typically used by blacks) as
powdered cocaine (typically used by whites).
For example, a minimum penalty of five years was given for 5 grams of crack cocaine or
500 grams of powdered cocaine.
Minority communities were more heavily policed and targeted, leading to a disproportionate
rate of criminalization.
But the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which was passed by Congress in 2010, reduced the discrepancy
between crack and powder cocaine offenses from 100:1 to 18:1.
There is perhaps one thing both supporters and critics of the 1980s drug war can agree
on: The policies and laws put into place during the Just Say No era created a drug-focused
political agenda that still impacts many Americans today.""
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