(Solved) Long War on Drugs - Essay
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Added on 2021-04-21
(Solved) Long War on Drugs - Essay
Added on 2021-04-21
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Running Head: LONG WAR ON DRUGSLong war on drugsName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1LONG WAR ON DRUGSIntroductionRaymond Leslie Buell is a publicist, an educator, a lecturer, a writer and a speaker oninternational affairs. His activities are associated with travel, the ‘Republican Party’ and the‘Foreign Policy Association’ (Buell, 1925). The following essay aims at highlighting certainaspects of Buell’s article “The Opium Conferences”, which deals with long war on drugs.DiscussionThe article by Raymond Leslie Buell, suggests that the United States contains hugenumber of drug addicts, who are so obsessed that they can be referred to as ‘slaves’ of these evilcomponents [drugs] (Buell, 1925). The people who get addicted to drugs not only becomeuseless, they also pose threat to the proper functioning and development of the society.Therefore, the practice of internalizing harmful drugs [such as opium] must be obliterated fromthe society. The author considered opium consumption [in any form] as harmful and alsoconsidered it to be an issue capable of arousing international concern. However, this notion ofthe author, was opposed by certain oriental [India] and European [America] countries; theydeclared dealings with opium to be their internal concern and did not completely declare opiumto be having any sort of ill effect (Boister, 2016).A conference held in the year 1912, at Hague, condemned the practice of smugglingdrugs (Buell, 1925). The stated conference suggested that the countries should implementeffective rules and regulations, in order to cease the production and supply of raw opium. Theconference further suggested that the production of the drugs must not be for the purpose ofsmoking, its utilization must be limited to medicinal and legitimate purposes (Smith, 2016).
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