High In Houston Analysis

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In the documentary, “High in Houston” better known as the ‘Bloody Nickel’, the “5th Ward” neighborhood in Houston, TX is full of drugs, gangs, and cartels. I could not understand how every day and night man and woman were out either prostituting for either food, but mainly money for drugs to get high. Some of the most popular drugs in this area that were discussed and that were discussed that most dealers sell and most people want to buy is prescription cough medicine “lean” which is codeine and crack cocaine. The drug dealers in this documentary talked about how they sell their items, how they run the streets in the 5th ward and do not mind killing someone to prove that to a person who challenges them. I am sad that right here in Texas, not even 40 miles outside of Prairie View, TX where I attend school class at, there are young man and woman who would whether sell drugs into our communities and kill our black community and keep us down. The question is when will we ever rise above the stereotype? Women day and night are …show more content…

Drug-law crime is having one or more illegal drugs in one’s possessions for delivery, sell, or even personal use is a crime. In this documentary, there were many individuals who were selling drugs on the streets to other individuals, buying drugs from their dealers, and using drugs to get and feel high and that would be considered a drug-law crime. A drug-related crime is a crime when it is done through trafficking, drug cartels, organized crime, and gangs. In this documentary, there were examples how gangs work to keep the drugs flowing through 5th ward and the Cartel and Cops working against each other for the control of the territory. But since the Cartel is keeping drugs flowing in the 5th ward and working against the cop this is considered a crime. But it is illegal to work as a group (a gang) to do illegal things like sell, distribute, or even use drugs for personal

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