Vucic Traffic

As far as I am concerned the war on drugs is already lost. With nearly half of all high schoolers having tried weed at least once, I highly doubt that the government will ever be able to have control over illegal substances. The war is lost simply because there is such a high demand for drugs and there is so much money to be made off of them. Its also ridiculous that the government can tell us what we can and cant put into our bodies. They claim that it is to save us from ourselves but that was never the job of the government when it was created. The key concept to understand here is that, as long as there is a demand for it, there will always be someone supplying it. Trying to take out the suppliers of drugs does not get rid of the demand. There will always be money to be made as long as the demand is there and, in the scene where Ruiz talks with the DEA agents, Ruiz explains that taking out one drug trafficker will not solve anything because the demand will still exist. Also, the war on drugs to some extent has only made the problem worse. It has perpetuated “drug related” crimes because the more the government has cracked down, the more the underground market for drugs has grown. The black market has and will always exist and though it is a pessimistic outlook, the war on drugs is hopelessly lost.