The movie “21 Jump Street” there are two guys that went to high school together. One, who plays Channing Tatum, was the popular guy in the school. The other guy who plays, Jonah Hill, was not as popular and was sort of the nerdy kid that had braces. A couple years have passed, and they end up becoming cops. The at first dislike each other but they have to get over it because they end up being partners. They are not very good cops at first, one cop does not read the rights to the person, so the criminal gets to go free. They soon get yelled at by their boss. They were then transferred to 21 Jump Street; this is where the bad cops go to get better in their field. However, during that day, they get into an assignment from their sergeant. They were to go under cover in a high school to try to end a drug bus. They end up messing a lot of steps wrong and one guy even gets into a relationship which he is not supposed to do. They were instructed to stop a huge drug that was becoming famous. In order for the guys to get a hold of the drugs they planned a party and invited everyone to it so they could get a range of who was taking it and who was selling it. During this whole time the guy they tried to stop before but ended up getting free, has been chasing them trying to kill both of them for snitching on them about smoking marijuana. The cops found out that one of the kids knew who was selling the illegal drugs. The popular kids in high school ended up selling the drugs. This connects to the chapter we are talking about this week because it has to do with drugs and alcohol. This film is mainly based on drugs however, the film does have some alcohol scenes during the movie while they are planning their party. In the book is explains what a drug is, “A drug may be defined as any substance other than food that, when taken into the body, affects the structure and/or functioning of the body” (Social Problems, 2016). In the movie it shows how each of the body is taking the drug differently. They can either suck on the drug or chew it to get the best results. It reminds me of this concept because you can see in the movie that their body is affected.

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Social problems: Continuity and change. (2016). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Retrieved from https://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/. CC BY NC SA 4.0 license.