grows and it becomes more difficult to criminally prosecute these women. On October 4‚ 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Ferguson v. City of Charleston.(Harris) This case was brought to the Supreme Court by 10 women who were tested for cocaine use without their consent while recieving prenatal care at a South Carolina public hospital. Women who tested positive were turned into the local police and arrested for crminal child abuse. The Court has to decide whether or not drug testing pregnant
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Another reason the U.S allowed the CIA to support the Contras was because they were fighting a regime that was influenced by Communism. The Sandinistas were also supported by the USSR‚ and keep in mind that this Nicaraguan Revolution was going on during the same time as the Cold War‚ meaning that the U.S already feared the spread of Communism from Russia and from Vietnam. As the Domino Theory states‚ America was afraid that if one country fell into communism‚ the neighboring countries would eventually
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Cannabis Essay The argument continues‚ should marijuana be legalized? This paragraph will reveal the benefits of legalizing marijuana. The first reason is that keeping marijuana illegal is very expensive‚ studies have shown about $8.7 billion would be saved in law enforcement and another $8.7 billion would be generated from taxes‚ this statistic shows how much money the government is spending and could be done with the legalization of marijuana. The next reason marijuana should be legalized is
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Drug abuse is becoming prevalence in Nigerian societies. This justifies the intensive media campaign against the menace. The commonly abused drugs are aspirin‚ cannabis‚ heroine‚ amphetamine‚ cocaine‚ indian-hemp‚ alcohol‚ tobacco etc. Social studies as a dynamic and problem solving discipline has drug education as one of the emerging areas of study. Drug education intends to expose the learners to uses‚ abuse and contraindication of drugs. Social studies being an integrated discipline which
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narcotics and the world’s biggest consumer of narcotics just happen to be neighbors. “Poor Mexico‚” its former president Porfirio Díaz is said to have remarked. “So far from God and so close to the United States.” The Sinaloa cartel can buy a kilo of cocaine in the highlands of Colombia or Peru for around $2‚000‚ then watch it accrue value as it makes its way to market. In Mexico‚ that kilo fetches more than $10‚000. Jump the border to the United States‚ and
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economy. Legalizing drugs may help government costs and tax revenues. Drugs can save the government billions annually in expenses related to prohibition and would gain a lot of tax revenue from placing taxes on the new legalized drugs‚ such as‚ cocaine and heroin. Jeffrey A. Miron and Katherine Waldock authors of “Making an Economic Case for Legalizing Drugs‚” state that‚ “Legalization would reduce state and federal deficits by eliminating expenditure on prohibition enforcement-arrests‚ prosecutions
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ANALYTICAL REPORT ON ILLEGAL DRUGS History The illegal drugs problem in the country is real and pervasive. It is undermining the moral fabric of our society and is victimizing almost everyone‚ including even young children in the grade schools. It has become a threat to national security. The national drug strategy which is primarily focused on "demand and supply reduction" appears to be working ineffectively. On the contrary‚ the demand for illegal
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Cheema 1 Farhan Afzal Cheema 2015-11-0079 Rabia Nafees Shah SS 100 Writing and Communication 4 January 2012 Should Marijuana be legalized in the United States of America? Marijuana “is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried‚ shredded leaves‚ stems‚ seeds‚ and flowers of Cannabis sativa- the hemp plant” (NIDA “What is Marijuana?”). It is the most widely used illegal drug in America according to the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health and was the only drug used by more than half of
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They would smuggle alcohol from the US Mexican border. Then they smuggled cocaine through the Andes with other Spanish gangs. Once the other Spanish gangs stopped smuggling cocaine‚ the mexican cartels became powerful. Gang violence has increased in certain parts of Mexico because of the increase in illegal drugs. There has always been violence in gangs‚ but the murder rates
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Argument against mandatory minimum drug sentencing There are many different argument both for and against mandatory minimum drug sentencing. However there are more arguments against mandatory minimum drug sentencing then there are for the support of the mandatory sentencing. One of the biggest arguments against mandatory minimum drug sentencing is that it was originally intended to target the higher level drug dealers but the majority of the cases have only been low level drug dealers. One
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