Bill Clinton believed in utilizing marijuana for medicinal purposes such as A.I.D.S., cancer, and glaucoma but not for the general legalization. He pushed a crime bill for drug leaders consisting of a life sentence for three time offenders. Under the Clinton Administration, California and Arizona both legalized marijuana for solely medicinal purposes. ...
Then came an amendment to the constitution, the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was a revolutionary measure in that it guaranteed that our federal government could never lawfully advance outside it's authorized bounds and encroach upon the natural born rights of man to act as he chooses as long as the rights of others are not violated in the process. ...
"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...
DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. DARE's origins can be traced to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and a chief of police who helped create a drug education and prevention program he believed was effective. It spread rapidly, and by the late 1990s DARE was operating in all 50 states and many countries (Lundman 2001). Part of the reason DARE worked was because of its mutual effort between the police department, the school, parents, and community leaders. DARE works because it surrounds childre...
