Recreational Drug Usage & Ethics of Prohibition

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Recreational drug usage is the use of psychoactive drugs to induce an altered state of consciousness for pleasure or for the experience without medical reasons. Some examples of recreational drugs are LSD, ecstasy, psilocybin, and opium. Recreational drug usage prohibition occurred first in America; then, other countries joined this political movement to be funded by America. This was an act to discriminate the minority groups such as Hispanic, black, and Mexican people. In June 1971, Nixon declared a global “war on drugs”…