ILLEGAL DRUGS Flashcards
sniffer de la cocaïne
To snort cocaine:
se banaliser
To become commonplace :
un réseau de trafiquants
A drug ring, a drug cartel :
A drug pusher, a drug peddler :
un dealer
entreprendre une cure de
désintoxication
to go into rehab :
être accro à qqch
To be addicted to sth :
essayer l’héroïne
To experiment with heroin :
rechuter
To relapse :
le responsable de la
lutte contre la drogue.
The drug czar / the drug tsar (US) :
la criminalité due à la drogue
Drug-related crime :
faire entrer de la
drogue dans un pays
To smuggle drugs into a country :
le pour et le contre
The pros and cons
les symptômes de l’état de
manque
Withdraxal symptoms
War on drugs
The expression “War on drugs” refers to a Nixon policy that begun 1969: to struggle drug reselling and abuse,
Government created a “Drugs Enforcement Administration”. Due to a new point of view of the Obama
Administration about drugs, the so-called “War on drugs” is since 2009 over.
The US-Government experimented a Prohibition policy about alcohol betwenen 1919 and 1933, also known as
“The Noble Experiment”. It as failed and enforced trafficking-activities, such as illegal bootlegging, and public
violence. Increasingly impopular, the experiment was stopped after the beginning of the Great Depression.
prohibition
L’administration Obama a exprimé son désir de privilégier le traitement au détriment de la répression en ce qui
concerne la drogue.
The Obama Administration has expressed its desire in favor of treatment over punishment when it comes to
drug abuse.
Pour beaucoup de gens, le débat sur les drogues est un débat moral, analogue aux débats sur la légalisation du
divorce ou de l’avortement, par exemple.
For many people, the debate about drugs is a moral one, akin to debates about allowing divorce, say, or
abortion.
L’exemple de la Prohibition a montré que la répression profite surtout aux organisations criminelles.
The example of Prohibition has shown that repression mostly benefits (no preposition) organized crime
dissuader
deter
