Critical the War on Drugs in the Philippines

Since 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte established war on drugs to eliminate all the people who used and sell drugs. As a Filipino who saw how Duterte’s war on drugs became the reason of killings in our country I can say that this platform is not the platform that we need in our country so I’m against on how war on drugs propagated.Critical the War on Drugs in the Philippines

In stated in the article that was written 4 years ago by Natalie Regoli, there are 6 disadvantages of war on drugs. First one is widespread corruption; instead in the corruption, we only focused to the war on drugs that we forgot the other crimes including the corruption. The second disadvantage is it provides a smokescreen to hide the real problem behind drug abuse. A majority of the population that are easily lured into drug dealing are those within and below the poverty line. People who have no hope of achieving very much because of their circumstances would resort to drug dealing where knowledge and skills are not required in their resume. They also see it as a way to make something of themselves, and to have the resources to fund their own drug habits. Next one is, increasing risk on the lives of policeman and military. Missions against drug lords is no joke, considering that they too have their own army that has no care about the lives that will be lost during a shootout or drug bust operation. The safety risks on the lives of many policemen are also very high.

Friends and family of these brave men and women would be very unhappy if something happened to them. Increase racial tension is the fourth one. Disparity on sentencing is the fifth disadvantages of war on drugs. Opponents complain that sentencing in drug-related crimes have major flaws. There is a huge problem in the sentencing between possessions or trafficking of powder cocaine and crack. For the last disadvantages of war on drugs, never-ending chain reaction. One man incarcerated for drug abuse or drug-related crimes is likely to have children who are growing up without a father. Statistics show how this can have a bad effect on the little ones. If they are in the same situation as their father before them, they could end up drug users or sellers as well, whichever comes first. So the cycle just goes on and on. It will be a never-ending ride of history repeating itself.Critical the War on Drugs in the Philippines