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. ... John Locke was the first to propose the idea that individuals are borne with natural rights prior to the existence of government and it is the government that ought to safeguard those rights. ... Jefferson clearly declared on paper that all men hold certain rights, which the government is oblig...

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 Imagine a drug that is less addictive than nicotine, safer to use than alcohol, and can even help in relieving the pain in cancer, glaucoma, and AIDS patients. Now, imagine that same drug being banned from the United States. Yes, this drug is marijuana, Mary Jane, reefer, pot, green, an...

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Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. ... To the springing forth of the federal government to stop the trafficking of illegal drugs. These efforts by the government were followed by the education of America about the dangers of drugs. ... In essence the government wanted to change the public's attitude toward drugs. ... This led to efforts in 1972 by the federal government to stop the drug trade. ...

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In 1985, anti-Government Guerillas, mainly composed of the drug dealers, attack the Colombian Supreme Court. ... At this point, the drug lords are using terrorism to force the Colombian government to back off the extradition issue. ... The 1999 federal National Household Survey of Drug Abuse provides an estimate of the age of first use of drugs. ... Federal regulations continue to make research with the drug very difficult, however, and many promising areas of therapeutic application have received little or no attention. ... New synthetic drugs caught the fancy of physicians and marijuana was...

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In 1985, anti-Government Guerillas, mainly composed of the drug dealers, attack the Colombian Supreme Court. ... At this point, the drug lords are using terrorism to force the Colombian government to back off the extradition issue. ... The 1999 federal National Household Survey of Drug Abuse provides an estimate of the age of first use of drugs. ... Federal regulations continue to make research with the drug very difficult, however, and many promising areas of therapeutic application have received little or no attention. ... New synthetic drugs caught the fancy of physicians and marijuana was...

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Since the passage of the Harrison Act in 1914, the federal approach to drug abuse control has included a variety of ways for reducing both the supply of, and demand for, illicit drugs. ... Accepting these premises led Congress to conclude that a federal ban on the production and sale of alcohol would go a long way toward reducing crime and addressing a variety of other social problems. ... In some of America's largest cities, local governments had been heavily corrupted by the influence of organized crime. ... Since that time, the government has implemented the much more successful polic...

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., hospital or residential in-patient services versus regular or intensive out-patient services), whether or not they were for-profit, non-profit or government owned facilities, and their geographic locations. ... Government organizations are next in line as far as likelihood of job opportunities in relation to number of facilities as they accounted for only 14% of the responding facilities. And it should be noted that of the 14% making up government facilities 11% are for state, local and community facilities, 2% for federally owned facilities, and the remaining 1% for tribal facilities. ....

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally abolished the Jim Crow system in public accommodations, employment, voting, education, and federally financed activities. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, an arguably more significant achievement, rendered illegal numerous discriminatory barriers to effective political participation by African-Americans and mandated federal review of all new voting regulations so that it would be possible to determine whether their use would perpetuate voting discrimination. ... " These highly racialized appeals targeted poor and working-class whites and were usually ac...

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Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement Administration) began a campaign to portray marijuana as a powerful, addicting substance that would lead users into narcotics addiction. ... By 1970 over 55 federal drug laws and countless state laws specified a variety of disciplinary measures, including life imprisonment and even the death penalty. To clarify the situation, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 abolished, replaced, or updated all previous federal laws concerned with narcotics and all other dangerous drugs. ...

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Government's surveys indicate more than 70 millions Americans have smoked Marijuana at some point in their lives. ... Federal laws prohibiting marijuana are also severe. Under federal law, possessing one marijuana cigarette or less is punishable by a fine up to $10,000 and one year in prison, the same penalty as for possessing small amounts of heroin and cocaine. ... Large scale marijuana cultivators and traffickers may be sentenced to death.3 Federal laws also deny entitlements to marijuana smokers. ... More recently, Congress passed amendments in 1998 to the Higher Education Act which ...

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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...

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The Chinese government took to destroying British opium imports before they reached China which eventually sparked two short wars and in the treaties that followed Britain was given Hong Kong, extra trading rights and sixty million pounds in compensation for lost opium stocks. ... In 1923, the Narcotics Division of the Treasury Department began active enforcement of the law, a responsibility that was transferred in 1930 to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), the ancestor of the modern Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). ...

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Historically, substance abuse has been portrayed to mirror the lower class. It has been regarded as a disease that plagues only a specific group of people. Currently that is no longer the case as high profile celebrities and white collar; well respected upper class people have brought their addicti...

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Other innovative programs that have resulted from the collaboration between Oriana House and local governmental agencies day reporting for those convicted of a crime but did not need residential housing. ... The author suggests that the irony of public funds being allocated for those who do not need the support is that it is the indigents, the one's most susceptible to abusing drugs and alcohol are only given enough services to meet county, state, and federal mandates. ...

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In East Berlin, young children were removed from their parents at an early age by government officials. ... However, many doctors obtain THC from the federal government under special arrangements in order to prescribe it for cancer patients. ...

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In East Berlin, young children were removed from their parents at an early age by government officials. ... However, many doctors obtain THC from the federal government under special arrangements in order to prescribe it for cancer patients. ...

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Drugs have become a very serious problem in the United States. They have become a component of one's every day lives. This Nation's reliance on drugs for pleasure, depression, and medical relief dominates the political and economic scene. Much debate over the drug issue occurs daily. Pleasure i...

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