No on Drug Legalization Everyone will agree that the drug issue in America is prominent. After so many drug related crimes‚ deaths‚ and federal spending‚ debates spur with opposing views in the political arena on how to rectify the problem. One view on solving the problem according to Judge James P. Gray’s proposal is to legalize drugs or as legalization advocates call it "harm reduction." This approach believes that drugs use is inevitable and the only way to solve the drug problem is through
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Bibliography: American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU Paper #19 - Against Drug Prohibition. 1996. Available at: . Retrieved June 6‚ 2003. Bransten‚ Jeremy. Europe: Drugs -- Dutch Practice Liberal Policies (Part 2). Radio Free Europe. 28 November 2000. Available at: . Retrieved June 5‚ 2003. Reinarman‚ Craig. "The Dutch example shows
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Daniel Schifrin APCP Research Paper Period 8 Drug Policy: A Look at America’s Ineffective Approach to Drugs Introduction In January 2004‚ senatorial candidate Barack Obama firmly opposed the twenty two-year war on drugs‚ saying that the United States’ approach in the drug war has been ineffective (Debussman). Although the term‚ “war on drugs‚” was originally coined by President Richard Nixon in 1971‚ it wasn’t until Ronald Reagan
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or just downright false. To understand this painfully obvious misconception of the problem‚ I must first tell you the history of drug prohibition. The war on drugs was never based on any scientific proof‚ nor was it the drugs itself that led to prohibition - The prohibition had everything to do with who was associated with the drugs. The first drug prohibition laws in the 1870s were outlawing opium‚ and were directed at chinese immigrants. The first anti-cocaine laws were made in the early 1900s
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Short Thought Essay on Drugs Marijuana is the most commonly abused drug used by teenagers. Adults‚ teens‚ and even children abuse drugs. The war on drugs does not do much to solve the problems of people abusing drugs. The war on drugs has been inefficient to the world. History has proven that the war on drugs has been a defeat. In the last four decades‚ the government has spent over 2.5 trillion dollars to fight the war on drugs. In those years‚ the number of drug abusers has risen to
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paper I will evaluate America’s War on Drugs. More specifically‚ I will outline our nation’s general drug history and look critically at how Congress has influenced our current ineffective drug policy. Through this analysis I hope to show that drug prohibition policies in the United States‚ for the most part‚ have failed. Additionally‚ I will highlight and evaluate the influences acting on individual legislators’ decisions to continue support for these ineffective policies as a more general demonstration
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The world we live in has various obstacles and issues that negatively affect society and the way in which we live our lives. The war on drugs is one of the most violent and controversial issues in the United States current political system. Drug abuse is linked to issues such as racism‚ crime as well as economic discrimination. The “War” was properly declared in the 1970’s by President Nixon due to the server abuse of illegal substances. President Nixon in an interview stated this war as “Public
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AUSTRAILIA’S ILLICIT DRUG POLICY: A COMPLETE ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATION JESSICA PRICE JARED ROSS POL-222 TASK 4: A RESEARCH REPORT DATE OF SUBMISSION: 23‚ October 2012 Table of Contents Abbreviated Terms 4 Executive Summary 5 Australia’s Illicit Drug Policy: Past‚ Present‚ & Future 7 A Closer Look at Recommendations and Approaches 11 Appendix A 15 Appendix B 18 Works Cited 21 ABBREVIATED TERMS ABS Australian
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drug laws are usually questionable‚ drug prohibition creates more opportunity for crime to occur‚ and the economical aspect of money (in the billions) being funneled towards criminal businesses and or organizations. The first reason I believe that the approach to criminalization of drugs would not be feasible is because most‚ if not all‚ federal drug laws are questionable in character in terms of effectiveness. An example of this is the failure of prohibition in the 1920’s. Fast forward to now‚ this
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but according to a poll published by the National Institute of Drug Abuse teen use has been going up steadily sense 2005 (Monitoring the future n.p.). The relationship Americans have had with prohibition has also been an extremely rocky one. It is common knowledge what happened during the prohibition of alcohol involving the black market‚ disapproval‚ lack of enforcement‚ and its final end in 1933. What is not common knowledge is that this is slowly becoming the movement for marijuana legalization
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