There's No Justice In The War On Drugs Milton Friedman Summary

Milton Friedman was a man of many hats, and never really stuck to just being one of them: A professor by profession in Economics, Lead financial advisor for Richard M. Nixon (President at time), Nobel Prize winner for his studies in macroeconomist, and finally a writer in heated political debate. Friedman is a man of accomplishment, and in right he has his opinions on what the American government should be. In his article, “There’s No Justice in the War on Drugs,” Freidman has found the government’s ethics to come into question, and uses factual evidence on specific topics to defend his argument to make us understand that the war on drugs is unnecessary. His theory behind his essay comes down to the government’s actions has impacted American’s

This is beneficial to his argument because it makes problems bolded out to his opinion which really makes his thesis hit home quicker. To begin his argument he creates the word informers and that the real world didn’t need them until the hidden network of drug trade was created. He uses gets the reader’s attention by calling the police and government just as corrupted a drug dealers and addicts due to the amount of money that is at stake. Next, arguing that the size of prisons are way too much to handle by attacking the empathy of the government. He explains this by saying, “There is no light at the end of that tunnel. How many of our citizens do we want to turn into criminals before we yell “enough”?” By doing this he draws at the logical appeal that not having these laws would create a lesser amount of population criminalized by illegal drugs. He also attacks the law making body for not doing its job in the area of people living in chronic pain and making people who use “illegal” drugs the criminals of America. The emotional attack hits home to most people in America because most people do know someone who lives in daily pain, and never seem to be able to find treatment. With this form of specialized points like stated above he has the power to tap into our personal emotions to get his point across that drug warfare in America isn’t necessarily what America

He makes the general statement that the war on drugs is unethical by the government which should affect every American. Then he specializes his argument into seven key points which may only affect some people in America, but still informs those who didn’t know before. To do this he uses facts and statistics to sort of impress the people uneducated in the subject to grab their opinion in his favor. Saying this makes the audience more informed but impressionable. Concluding that his audience was the unaware Americans, and just Americans in