"Campaigns to prohibit drugs and alcohol in the United States emerged as part of a much broader moral reform movement" (Woodiwiss, 1998: 253). Concerted efforts to legalize drugs and alcohol have little power against these moral reform movements. Anti-drug movements were set in motion as far back as the early nineteenth century, dealing more with socio-economic power struggles and maintaining the status quo with minorities at the bottom rung of the economic ladder than the highly touted …showed first 75 words of 2721 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2721 total…drug policies would be to change our present government. Not necessarily the idea of capitalism just the people who are in charge. It is unfair that five percent of the population own ninety-five percent of the wealth in the United States and unless the wealth begins to trickle down rather than up drug policy as well as the social problems that we face today will never be resolved. Contemporary Drug Policy and Possibility of Change