Social Policy Paper War on Drugs: Take A Stand: Yes, No. Maybe! Learning Team B Kathy Bell Shamlin, Kenneth Fishman, Shorunda Hinton: Instructor: Ms.S BSHS / 355 September 4, 2015 Social Policy Paper War on Drugs; Take A Stand: The Case for Reforming Drug Policy: Most of us cannot imagine a place where it is legal to sell, buy, and use drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, crystal meth, ecstasy
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Marijuana in California. The debate regarding the legalization of soft drugs such as marijuana is capable of being characterized as one which pits the concept of freedom of the individual against the concept of a paternalistic State. Advocates of legalization argue that amongst other things, marijuana is not only less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal substances, but also as a matter of fact has been proven to possess certain medicinal property. The people who support the legalization
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Drug use and abuse is as old as mankind itself. Human beings have always had a desire to eat or drink substances that make them feel relaxed, stimulated, or euphoric. Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 BC in China. As time went by, "home remedies" were discovered and used to alleviate aches, pains and other ailments. Most
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Individual Position Paper Decriminalization of Drugs in Indiana “Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.” If I asked someone to guess who said the quote above, most people would probably assume it was some kind of musician like Bob Dylan; however, that is a quote from the 16th President of the United States and arguably one of the most successful ones at that, Abraham Lincoln. The negative stigma that drugs has received from
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convicted from use of the most common illicit drug in the world, is forcing the United States of America to rethink its stance on the matter. In general, the underlying argument about Marijuana in this country is: should Marijuana continue to be prohibited to citizens based on its health effects, medicinal values, and costs to the country? The reasons why this argument is so important are great. As previously stated, Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the world, and with millions of people
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Drug prohibition awareness has struck people in many countries in the last decade of the 20th century. Not to mention, that some form of prohibition on drugs is incorporated in every country’s laws. However, the national drug prohibition was created as a subgroup of the alcohol prohibition in the 1920’s. Shortly after, during the 1930’s congress divided drugs and alcohol creating a new federal drug prohibition agency (Miron, 1995). Prohibition can be defined as a set of restrictions that focus on
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such as: * Smoked vs. non-smoked marijuana for medical value * Medical marijuana in public policy * The risks of marijuana for medical purposes including: * Actual medical risks * Is it a gateway or a stepping stone for hard core drugs? * Possible addiction beyond the medical use * Governmental views on marijuana as a medical option * How a patient would gain access to medical marijuana * Who might be allowed to distribute marijuana: * How would it be prescribed
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fourteen with potential legalization measures on the ballots this November (Rough, 2016). With public opinion shifting so quickly and marijuana becoming increasingly commonplace in American culture (pop and otherwise), it’s hard to imagine that this drug has been largely illegal and controlled in the United States for a century. Proponents of marijuana legalization argue that the initial criminalization of the plant has its roots in racism and capitalism, and that marijuana became the political sacrifice
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The topic of prostitution and drug use has been an ongoing battle over the decriminalization of these so called victimless crimes. They are both correlated to sociological factors, such as, race, gender, socioeconomic standing and age, which, increases the likelihood of becoming involved in prostitution and illegal drug use. They are correlated to each other because prostitution is a means of income to support drug use and drug use is used to make a prostitutes work “bearable”. This paper will discuss
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Marijuana is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant (cannabis sativa). Currently, the U.S. federal government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I substance—identifying it as having “a high potential for abuse” and “no currently accepted medical use,” and placing it in the same league as opium and LSD. Because of its Schedule I status, it is illegal to buy, sell, grow, or possess marijuana in the United States, and people convicted of marijuana offenses face
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