He said he saw signs of a shift in public opinion last year after California residents voted on a ballot measure that would have legalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. Ultimately, the measure failed, but he said, "People are changing their minds" (Ellingwood). ...
The study found that "DARE had no long-term effects on a wide range of drug use measures; DARE does not prevent drug use at the stage in adolescent." ... Dennis also stated, "Suburban students who were DARE graduates scored higher than suburban students in Control group on all four major drug use measures." ...
Common measures included: greatly lengthened prison sentences; removal of discretion from judges through mandatory minimum sentencing schemes and strict guideline systems; expansion of conspiracy laws to include people only peripherally involved in an offense; loosening of the evidentiary requirements to prove conspiracy; and "school-zone" sentencing enhancements that apply to a large percentage of all drug cases in many urban areas, although the majority of such cases do not involve minors or take place on school grounds . ... Voters in both Arizona and California have overwhelmingly approve...
He counters that argument by saying that the nauseous sensations that patients feel are almost impossible to measure in experiments; that what is the far more important than mere test results is whether the patients feel relief when using the substance. ...
Exploring the Socioeconomic Impact of Marijuana Use Among College Age Adults: A Multiple Case Analysis Statement of the Problem Marijuana use among college age adults in the United States has a damning effect on the social and economic status of these individuals. Although drug use has decli...
Should the legal drinking age be lowered to 18. Alcohol, an addictive drug that is raiding the minds of teens all over the world. Alcohol has permanent effects that damage not only brain cells, but judgment. Teens all over the world are engaging in this worldwide drug, and certa...
Others might argue that education is not enough to solve underage drinking because teenagers are too ignorant to understand the effects of alcohol; therefore, more drastic measures such as scare tactics or the banning of alcohol need to be enforced. ...
I have chosen to write about a drug called marijuana and it's advantages and disadvantages. The two main authors whose work will be cited and debated in this essay are Eric A. Voth and Ethan A. Nadelmann. Many of those who believe illicit drugs are a major problem in America however are usuall...
Lately there have been many argumentations on whether we should legalize drug or not. Dershowits suggests that we should decriminalize drug for hard-core addicts in the medical settings. However Rangle says we should stop thinking about legalization since we will have many issues if we legalize dr...
Millions of Americans are affected by alcoholism everyday. There has been much debate over the causes of alcoholism. For a long time, the idea that alcoholism ran in families has been known. Some feel that alcoholism is caused by the environment in which a person exists and others argue that it is...
In 1971, President Nixon declared war on drugs and increased the presence of federal drug agencies. He also pushed measures of mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants. When Ronald Reagan became president, it was the start of a long term of intensified rates of incarceration. The number of people ...
Tax Reform Gore's plans for tax reform benefit the low to middle income citizens. Gore believes that it is unlikely that every family will receive a tax cut. Gore wants to lower taxes for working families with targeted tax reform. Many of his tax plans are targeted toward smaller groups of peo...
The time in which humans leave the stage of being a child is a very difficult time for both the person and their parents. Being a teenager means that you have many more tasks to accomplish and many more physical and emotional changes to go through. The changes that teenagers experience are those amo...
The Drug War : There's a war being waged in our country. A war with no definable boundaries or enemies. A war that claims a victim every minute. The drug war. With controversial legislature pending in states all across the country, there are few people without an opinion. As time progresses ...
Drug use has devastating consequences such as health problems and addiction which has necessitated government agencies and national drug societies to put up measures meant to help drug addicts conquer their addiction state and enable them to lead normal lives. ...
Conclusion Although there are no programs or treatment that is 100% effective, there has been an overwhelming demand for politicians to change the amounts of money put into these programs and also a large demand for additional treatment centers and more effective therapy measures, such as the additional training and studies for cultural bias and the better understanding of why some people become addicts while others don't. ...
Addiction is needing or using a particular thing or engaging in a certain behavior compulsively on a regular basis without being able to stop, even when it causes problems in ones daily life. In today's society, there are many addictions that are considered socially acceptable which makes the addict...
I have to mark also point out that drunk people's findings are tentative in part because the measures of violence are weak: most violent acts do not result in arrest and incarceration and thus the acts reported in this study comprise only a small subset of violent incidents. ...
The prohibition of alcohol that took place in the 1920s was also known as "The Great Experiment". I think this is a perfect name for it, because in the long run that's all it really was, an experiment. The experiment was to see if by taking away alcohol, would the nation improve. Technically, the ex...
Most of the tools and measurements designed to measure trauma were not developed specifically for refugee populations, and the few that were made specifically for refugees are lacking descriptions of how they were developed, their reliability and their validity (Hussein & Bhushan, 2009). ...
Drugs are, without a doubt, one of the most widespread problems in this country. About eighty percent of all prison inmates have been incarcerated because of drug related charges. It seems that the more the nation "cracks down" on drugs the more they proliferate throughout our society. But why do we...
Drugs have been a serious problem in the United States. Since everybody has their own personal reasons why they do such a thing as use and abuse drugs, it makes even more difficult to prevent such a crime. Preventing the drug use has been a major issue in the area of politics, schools, or within the...
The American war on drugs has been occurring for almost a century with four presidents personally in command of the operation. Unfortunately, drugs are still being circulated, and drug addicts run rampant. The drug market diminishes the standard morals and ethics of a society with the beneficiaries ...
