Ganja-Man skrev:
det er altså en temmelig åben opgave, så JEL - selvom hovedfokus er på de amerikanske unge, kan jeg stadig sagtens perspektivere til den negative inflydelse som den ulovlige industri der følger forbuddet af stofbrug fører med sig verden over, fx i mexico.
Ok, i så fald vil jeg lige gi' dig lidt info fra "Newsweek", som jeg gætter på er en kilde danske gymnasie-lærere vil finde acceptabel i en opgave som din.
Brug det hvis du kan, her er det ihvertfald så ka' du selv vurdere om det er relevant for dig.
Link:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/226211(det er en 3-siders artikel, fra den 8. december 2009, fra en panel-debat holdt af "http://intelligencesquaredus.org/")
Her er et par enkelte hoved-citater fra artiklen (jeg har indsat hvem i panelet der si'r diverse ting, så du har det som kilde hvis det er):
Jerry Adler, Newsweek skrev:
Forty years ago, the United States government began a "war on drugs" whose cost so far is estimated at $1 trillion, and rising. In 2006, newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderón began a crackdown on the drug-smuggling cartels—a "war on drugs" that really is a war, involving military troops and weapons and more than 10,000 dead so far. Americans buy drugs from the cartels and sell them guns, and Washington arguably provided the example for the Mexican government's hard-line tactics.
Fareed Zakaria, editor of NEWSWEEK International skrev:
So Mexico is only the last in a long line of these drug wars, and you have to ask: are we not in some way responsible? We are the largest consumer of drugs in the world. We have the largest supply of weaponry in the world. Two thousand guns cross the American border every day into Mexico. If the supply of weapons is coming from one place, and the demand for drugs is coming from one place, it seems self-evident that we are responsible.
Harvard economist Jeffrey A. Miron skrev:
The reason there are drug wars is because the drug trade is prohibited. Whether you think drugs should be legal or not, it's a fact that when you drive a market underground, it becomes violent. Why? Because participants cannot resolve their disputes with lawyers, or by complaining to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, but only by shooting each other. Prohibition creates the violence, and the U.S., far and away above any other country, has foisted drug prohibition on the rest of the world.
Chris W. Cox, the chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association skrev:
The cartels post profits of $14 to $25 billion every year
journalist Andrés Martinez of the New America Foundation skrev:
We Americans need to make a choice. Either we get serious about clamping down on the consumption of illegal drugs, or we should legalize them. We can't have it both ways. Let's not be distracted by talk of corruption in Mexico or about America's gun laws. This is about what happens to a nation that shares a 2,000-mile border with the richest nation on Earth, that consumes some $65 billion worth of drugs a year and cedes control of that market to offshore criminal organizations. Geography sometimes is destiny: there's an old saying, "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." I recently read a best-selling book on Mexico, and the author wrote that the U.S. wants Mexico "to wage the war and provide the corpses, so it doesn't have to."
Jorge Castañeda, a professor at NYU and foreign minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003 skrev:
President Felipe Calderón is to blame for Mexico's drug war, a war of choice that he should not have declared, that cannot be won, and is doing enormous damage to Mexico.
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This war cannot be won, because it is failing to comply with the tenets of a good friend of mine, Colin Powell. To go into a war like this, you need to have overwhelming force, and we don't have it. You need a definition of victory, we don't have it. And you should have the support of the Mexican people, which President Calderón does have, but he's running out of it very quickly.
Hvis det ikke lige er noget du ka' bruge, så er der ikke noget at gøre ved det. Men måske det så ka' interessere andre.
Det er ihvertfald et del-aspekt af usa's narko-situation.
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