The media in the United States of America portrays drugs in many different ways. In movies such as Scareface and Blow, drugs are shown as evil. Although a majority of media portrays drugs as evil, some of the most influential media on the kids encourages them to use and sell drugs. The children of the Untied States of America are growing up listening to musicians talking about getting high and selling drugs.
Scareface is a good example of the way movies portray drugs. In Scareface, a young Cuban immigrant named Tony Montana sets up a huge cocaine empire. He goes from working as a dish washer to owning a huge mansion. This movie shows drugs as the root to evil. In the movie Tony kills his former boss, and marries his wife. Tony also ends up killing his best friend. Through out the movie you can see how cocaine changes Tony.
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Dr. Dre (in red) during his time in World Class Wr...Towards the end, he is a totally different person. After seeing the change that cocaine caused, it makes you never want to try it.
In the movie Blow, they show the evil that drugs bring. George Jung, the main character, gets busted for the first time with over 600 pounds of marijuana. He spends some time in jail where he meets a man affiliated with Pablo Escobar. Once out of jail, George begins his cocaine empire. He marries one of Escobar's nieces and becomes part of the family. His wife has a baby girl, but George gets busted again. When he finally gets out of jail, he goes to a bank in Panama and finds out the government took his money. Now George is broke with no job and a family to feed. George decides to risk the rest of his life on one last score. He attempts to...
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I often wonder if people who write essays have ever taken drugs. What is exactly wrong with getting high then? You never really clarify this in your essay. The addiction? Selling drugs and getting caught? The way drugs can change people?
I agree that drugs can change people as well, and not for the better, however, I think that people tend to classify everything under the general term of 'drugs'. Cannabis is not addictive, and is unlikely to have a bad affect on people, unless used in excess.
What if drugs were legalised, all drugs, and thus regulated by the government. There would be none of the shit put into them as there is at the moment by dodgy dealers (often, it is what drugs are cut with that kills people rather than the actual drugs). Also, if drugs were legal, the actual amount that people take could also be regulated, cutting back on excess.
People are going to take drugs anyway, they always have and always will whether the government like it or not. Surely it would be safer if it was legal?
I, admittedly, have never seen the movies mentioned in this essay. But what about movies like Pulp Fiction? Or Trainspotting? Although these movies do depict the rough side to drugs, they also glamourise them by making it seem cool to be taking them. This can also influence young people.
You say scareface shows drugs as the root of all evil, and that the person in it does horrible things as the drug takes over and his cocaine empire expands. Well, to be honest, I think that even if you removed the drug from the equation here that these effects are possible as a result of greed. I think that capitalism breeds these sort of effects, greed, want of more money can breed selfishness. America is the queen of big businesses, I think that this sort of thing exists without drugs being brought into the equation.
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