Leary Traffic

The war on drugs has been a huge problem for a very long time now. Personally, I don’t believe that the war on drugs is winnable for the social or political levels but I do think it could be winnable for the individual level. The movie, Traffic, showed how these levels are winnable or not winnable. Many characters in the movie were doing everything and anything they could to stop the war on drugs or at least help it. The scene at the beginning of the movie were the two Mexico cops stopped the truck full of drugs is a good example of this. These cops helped stop a huge distributer of drugs which in all helps contribute to stopping the drug war. Other characters were contributing to the war on drugs and making matters even worse. For example, this happened in the scene when Mrs. Ayala decided to help her husband get out of jail and do whatever she could to help him. This in fact worsened the drug trade because her husband was in the trading business and made it so that the trade continues. From the social and political aspect, I don’t think it is possible to win the drug war and stop it for those reason. It just doesn’t seem possible since so many people are involved and violence it brought into it if sellers or buyers are trying to be stopped. On the other hand, it might not be easy for the individual to stop doing drugs but it is definitely possible. I think that if the individual wanted to stop doing drugs then they could with some willpower. You see this in the movie with Caroline and her drug addiction. The scene where she is being sent to rehab for the second time describes this because she is attempting to get better and stay off the drugs individually.