Cocaine is one of the most drug that people around the world use. It makes a very big economic system but where is the main place that they use to grow cocaine.
According to
Scenes from Peru's Cocaine Capital in the TIME World (2013), Many counties in South American have been using and growing coca, a raw material of manufacturing cocaine, for a thousands years by tradition and religious belief, but nowadays, one of the South American counties, Peru, have a rebel from coca seller and drug seller. They resist the government because the government want to stop coca cropping.
Many counties in the world have a drugs problem. Drugs problem makes counties break down and one of the big problem is children drugs addict. As I see many children in Thailand, they tend to addict drugs because of social and economic. First for social, a lot of Thai children addict drugs by their friends. It starts with their friend persuade them to try to smoke cigarette and than change to something that have stronger effect. Many children smoke because they want be cool and sometime they want to socialize with other peoples. Second for economic, in this cause it may start by their family. A lot of Thai people have less education so when mafia or gangster offer them to sell drugs, they will do it because it is a simple task and it is an easy way to earn a lot of money. When they become a drugs seller, they usually become the drug addict too and it effect to their children after that children will do the thing that like their parent did. Consequently, these two reason make Thai children tend to addict drugs.
Scenes from Peru's Cocaine Capital. (2013, October 9). TIME World. Retrieved on October 9, 2013 from
http://world.time.com/2013/10/09/scenes-from-perus-cocaine-capital/photo/aptopix-peru-coca-growing-valley-photo-gallery/
Ong is right that many countries have drug problems.
ReplyDeleteBut which countries tend to have the biggest drug related social and health problems: countries where drugs are legal or where drugs are illegal?
Why is Pamela Hartmann interested in the answer to this question?
Does the government in Thai have any recommendation in this situation? Selling illegal drugs in Taiwan is serious guilt and the prison tern is around ten years at least.
ReplyDeleteDoes the government in Thai have any recommendation in this situation? Selling illegal drugs in Taiwan is serious guilt and the prison tern is around ten years at least.
ReplyDeleteAnd are such prison terms, and such laws, just or unjust? What justifies the discrimination between alcohol and cocaine that punishes the sale and use of one with a long prison sentence whilst making no such punishment for the other?
DeleteIs this discrimination just, or is it unjust prejudice?
People who think cocaine and alcohol should be treated so very differently need to give a sound reason for the discrimination. Is there one?
Ong's post usefully starts thinking about the sort of issues that Hartmann asks us to write about in Part 5 of chapter 7.
ReplyDeleteOng, you hadn't given this post a title, so I've just added one. If you would like to change it, that's fine.
DeleteI chose it because it reflects the important comments you make in your response to the article - the sort of ideas we want to consider as start thinking of one answer to one of Hartmann's questions on pages 224 and 227.