Chris Searls Public Policy Drug Prohibition Under the United States Constitution the federal government is charged with the responsibilities to protect our individual, as well as collective, rights to life and liberty. Often times this charge leads the various branches of the federal government to create, implement, and enforce policy that is designed to protect society from itself. Noble in it’s ambition the result although not apparent initially, sometimes does more to hinder the …showed first 75 words of 1645 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1645 total…teenagers in these poor neighborhoods to neglect or totally drop out of school, which leaves a mass group of people uneducated, unskilled, and committing crime. All of these factors only precede poorer communities  Personal Rights Prohibition at its’ root is an assault on the rights of the citizens on which it is inflicted. The ‘war on drugs’ is no exception. At the most basic of these rights are our inalienable rights to life and liberty.