Role Of Drug Enforcement
The Role of Drug Enforcement Drugs are being more and more available to minors and adults. They are often illegally produced and distributed throughout the nation or foreignly. Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Agency, better known as the DEA, “during his presidency in 1976” (Garvey) to combat this criminal activity. Naturally, since under the President’s control, it is an administrative agency. Administrative agencies hold their own power and have the ability to arrest and carry out their specific task under separate guidelines. Recently, a large amount of American citizens have pressed for the federal government to turn drug enforcement power to the states against the foundations of our Constitution. These people want to let the
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The switch of power of drug enforcement from federal to State will never happen. Marijuana is now much more available due to commercializing of the product, and will soon become another substance for minors to try to obtain before they are of minor age, such as alcohol and cigarettes. Marijuana is now legal under State law in a few States, but the federal government still classify marijuana as a drug. Oxford dictionary classifies a drug as “a substance taken for its narcotic or stimulant effects”. Agents and principals apply in this manner, where “employees who use medical marijuana”, even if legal within the States, “have very little protection if they get fired for their state-sanctioned use” (Chang). Regardless of whether States may allow certain drugs, they are still illegal, and no employers desire to see their employees appear for work while on any sort of substance. With this reasoning, they reserve the right to fire the worker regardless of state …show more content…
Selected Material from Essentials of Business Law. Custom Edition for De Anza
College 4th Edition
Chang, Kabrina. “Creating Confusion in the Workplace.” The Opinion Pages Room for Debate. The
New York Times, 14, March 2014.
Garvey, Todd. “Medical Marijuana: The Supremacy Clause, Federalism, and the Interplay Between
State and Federal Laws.” Congressional Research Service. 4 April 2014
Kilmer, Beu. “The Fed’s Role After Legalization.” The Opinion Pages Room for Debate. The New
York Times, 14, March 2014
Quattlebaum, Jeremy. “What happens when states enact legislation that contradicts federal laws?”
Annenberg Classroom, 4, April 2014
Nicholas, Phil, and Churchill, Andrew. “The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the states, and the origins of modern drug enforcement in the United States, 1950-1962.” Federal Legal Publications Inc.
10 March 2014.
“U.S Constitution Article I” Cornell University Law School. 4, April 2014
Walters, John. “A Major Problem Needs A National Response.” The Opinion Pages Room for
Debate. The New York Times, 14, March 2014.
Wood, Daniel. “Marijuana in California: Prop. 19 won 't stop federal drug enforcement” The
The switch of power of drug enforcement from federal to State will never happen. Marijuana is now much more available due to commercializing of the product, and will soon become another substance for minors to try to obtain before they are of minor age, such as alcohol and cigarettes. Marijuana is now legal under State law in a few States, but the federal government still classify marijuana as a drug. Oxford dictionary classifies a drug as “a substance taken for its narcotic or stimulant effects”. Agents and principals apply in this manner, where “employees who use medical marijuana”, even if legal within the States, “have very little protection if they get fired for their state-sanctioned use” (Chang). Regardless of whether States may allow certain drugs, they are still illegal, and no employers desire to see their employees appear for work while on any sort of substance. With this reasoning, they reserve the right to fire the worker regardless of state …show more content…
Selected Material from Essentials of Business Law. Custom Edition for De Anza
College 4th Edition
Chang, Kabrina. “Creating Confusion in the Workplace.” The Opinion Pages Room for Debate. The
New York Times, 14, March 2014.
Garvey, Todd. “Medical Marijuana: The Supremacy Clause, Federalism, and the Interplay Between
State and Federal Laws.” Congressional Research Service. 4 April 2014
Kilmer, Beu. “The Fed’s Role After Legalization.” The Opinion Pages Room for Debate. The New
York Times, 14, March 2014
Quattlebaum, Jeremy. “What happens when states enact legislation that contradicts federal laws?”
Annenberg Classroom, 4, April 2014
Nicholas, Phil, and Churchill, Andrew. “The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the states, and the origins of modern drug enforcement in the United States, 1950-1962.” Federal Legal Publications Inc.
10 March 2014.
“U.S Constitution Article I” Cornell University Law School. 4, April 2014
Walters, John. “A Major Problem Needs A National Response.” The Opinion Pages Room for
Debate. The New York Times, 14, March 2014.
Wood, Daniel. “Marijuana in California: Prop. 19 won 't stop federal drug enforcement” The