increase as well. Even if the drugs were cheap people would just end up buying more for themselves causing them to be that much more addicted to the drugs and become dependant on them to function (74). These two articles have a lot of similar views. They both agree on the fact that in legalizing drugs violence would also increase. They both say that physical illness will most definitely become and issue if the use of drugs proceeds. Legalization Madness and Traffic both showed the different perspectives of the issue on legalizing drugs. Although Traffic seemed to be based on keeping drugs illegal some other parts of the movie would completely contradict that. Many scenes in the movie is showing the drug Czar and his compulsive need to have “just a drink.” He wouldn’t face the fact that his daughter had a problem so he would drink. He said he needed to loosen up but really he just didn’t know how to deal with the problem in his own house. Another part of the movie shows how different the rules are in the United States compared to Mexico. The Mexican police seemed like they were breaking the law also. They were out to get benefits for themselves not to enforce the law. The movie Traffic is a perfect example of the problems associated with drugs. People will do things they normally wouldn’t do. A perfect example of this would be Helena. She had nothing to do with the drugs but as soon as her husband was going to jail she resorted to measures that were illegal just to save him from staying in prison and to keep her son safe. A good point of this movie is that you can’t stop drugs in general unless you start with individual people. In the movie Traffic they used pathos mostly to get us to sympathize with Caroline. In the scene where she was in bed and so messed up that she couldn’t even see strait really was meant to get to people’s hearts. They wanted us to feel sorry for ...
