Budgets It is amazing how a few thousand dollars can make such a huge difference in people's lives. ... It was very hard figuring out a budget sheet for the Blue Family because cuts had to be made in important parts of the budget sheet that people need, like personal things. ... You can make an assumption that the white's house hold is very laid back and happy. ... But what is most important unlike the White family the Blue families" children will have to go without a lot of thing children should receive. ... Kids may result to selling drugs robbing people for money. ...

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These high-profile leaders believe that the global war on drugs is a costly failure and governments should end "the criminalization, marginalization, and stigmatization of people who use drugs but do no harm to others" (Ellingwood). ... Ultimately, the measure failed, but he said, "People are changing their minds" (Ellingwood). ... "Making drugs more available - as this report suggests - will make it harder to keep our communities healthy and safe," said Rafael Lemaitre, spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (Ellingwood). ... The White House drug agency said...

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Too many people do not realize what a colossal problem drug abuse is in the United States today. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy concluded that Americans spent at least 57.3 billion dollars on illicit drugs between 1988 and 1995, money that could have been used to support the economy. ... People treated are given a small oral dose of a synthetic opiate, sufficient to block the effects of withdrawal, but not enough to bring on the dangerous "high" that drug abusers aim for. ... People in the programs typically have long histories of addiction and criminal behavior; t...

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In my research I found that racial profiling has its down sides but is not as bad as some people make it out to be. ... Looking at adult drug users, the PLNDP study found that more than half of those who admitted using heroin last year are white and 60 percent of monthly cocaine users are white. (Also, 77 percent of regular marijuana users are white, while one in six is African-American.) ... The author mention that if the numbers where the same Racial Profiling Isn't That Bad 6 between minorities and white...

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Constitutional amendments assuring African-Americans "equal protection of the law" proved impotent as soon as a white backlash against reconstruction gained steam. ... People find it no surprise that the Jim Crow system arose after slavery. ... The superlative nature of individual black achievement in previously white domains signifies the end of the Old Jim Crow but that does not indicate the end of a caste system. ... The white man thought the same with slavery but that proved to be an erroneous assertion. The Civil Rights Movement and the Poor Peoples Movements success led to the ...

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This story shows how impaired peoples judgment can be as a result of drug addiction. ... This is different from what most people expect from the daughter of a drug-addicted mother. ... The typical stereotypical belief shows that a white married couple would provide the best living environment for the child. ... The woman in this particular show mirrors the stereotype of a happily married upper class white woman. ... It is truly amazing the depths people in this world go to just to get high. ...

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As a result of globalization, there has been an increased amount of organized crime moving across international borders, and no longer is it simply a national concern, but a global one, as it affects people all over the world, and not those of a single state. Examples of transnational crimes include: human trafficking, people smuggling, smuggling/trafficking of goods (such as weapons, drugs, illegal animal and plant products and other goods prohibited on environmental grounds), sex slavery, terrorism offences, and torture. ... Arms and Drug Trafficking Although transnational crime is a ...

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This message is in bold white on a black screen. ... This white message, however, might end up being a very big white lie. ... To be fully effective, the commercial targets many different groups of people. ... People have an attitude that logic and reasoning should be left to computers and people they elect do think for them. ... That fact alone ensures that most people will find the message grimly accurate. ...

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Cocaine is an odorless, white powder. ... Steroids are used today by young people that are in a hurry to reach maturity or by someone that hates his skinny body. ... White broke a few tackles before the cops laid him out. ... Four months later, White was in the ProBowl. White traded his handcuffs for a gold Pro Bowl watch and became the Foot...

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Cocaine is an odorless, white powder. ... Steroids are used today by young people that are in a hurry to reach maturity or by someone that hates his skinny body. ... White and his friend were alone, and he felt that many were trying to kill him. ... White broke a few tackles before the cops laid him out. ... Four months later, White was in the ProBowl. ...

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Boys in the Hood basically had nothing but black people in their society. There were a few white people. ... Non-material culture consisted of people with basically no values, and a mind set that you must kill to stay alive. ... The Koreans which owned a corner store, and white men which were cops. ... Also if unlike people from different societys are forced to be together they will collaborate into one, especially if they are both striving to reach the same goal. ...

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Many people see the differences in sentences as a racial issue, due to the racial differences in the use of crack cocaine and powder cocaine. ... This results in African American men and women serving much longer prison sentences than white men and women. ... Crack cocaine is sold cheaply in small amounts to thousands of people in cities. People should not have to serve a longer sentence due to the difference in price. ... The quantity distinction has also resulted in a massive sentencing disparity by race, with African Americans receiving longer sentences than the mostly white and Hispanic ...

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Currently that is no longer the case as high profile celebrities and white collar; well respected upper class people have brought their addiction stories to the forefront. ... DAWN data demographics further claims that Vicodin is often seen as the "white collar- addiction. ... There have been numerous reports of high profile and white collar people who have faced the powerful grips of Vicodin addiction. Sometimes seen as a "white-collar" addiction, Vicodin abuse has increased among all classes of people. ... For some reason that theory changes when the addiction surfaces on the high profil...

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Many people have speculated that this is a politically intended and possibly racial biased program. They say that the reason why powder cocaine has lesser penalties is because more upper class and white collar or mostly whites are the offenders. ... If drugs are not going to be made legal, which they probably won't, legislation should be passed to try to rehabilitate or treat people who are addicted instead of sending them to prison; and most people who use drugs are not addicted and using experimentally or very rarely for various abstract social or relieving purposes. ...

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(NIDA) The first one is pure white powder; it is most likely comparable with salt. ... Crack cocaine rocks have a light type of white. (Gorman 43) A question that has been always on my mind is " Why do people consume crack Cocaine?" ... The reason why people use cocaine is of rush of feeling a "whole-body orgasm". ... According to researchers, each year since 1998, almost 380 people die from cocaine. ...

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Today's heroin is so pure, users can smoke it or snort it, causing more people throughout the world to use it everyday. People who snort or smoke heroin face the same high risk of overdose and death that haunts the average user everyday. ... Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder. ... One who uses heroin is known to go through a period of withdraw from the people who were once close to them and tend to stay away as much as possible. ...

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Heroin is "a white, odorless, bitter crystalline compound that is derived from morphine and is a highly addictive illegal narcotic."8 There are different types of heroin and it does not always look like a white powder. ... In some addiction studies conducted by researchers, it was found that former addicts showed a strong preference for heroin and morphine, which means that more people abuse these two drugs than others. ... Cocaine in its purest form is a fine, white powder and is bitter tasting. ... It ranges from white to a yellowish color and is a crumbly, oily to hard texture. ...

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Codeine is one of the least psychoactive drugs in the world. It has many physical effects on the body including drowsiness, constipation, sedation, suppress cough, and also slow down reactions. Codeine is the third most common alkaloid in the opium poppy plant. Codeine is in up to three percent conc...

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In 1988 The White House anti-drug policy was "zero-tolerance". ... Prohibitionists rejected the idea that people could be trusted to drink in moderation, arguing that alcohol use inevitably led to moral corruption and undesirable behavior. ... Adding the jail and prison estimates gives a total of 59,300 people incarcerated for marijuana offenses. Using the adjusted estimates for "marijuana only" gives a jail-plus-prison total of 37,500 people incarcerated for marijuana without any other drugs involved. ... Finally, using the adjusted estimates for possession gives a jail-plus-prison total of ...

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Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder or as a black sticky substance known as "black tar heroin" (National Institute on Drug Abuse). ... Studies have shown, "deterioration of the brain's white matter due to heroin use, which may affect decision-making abilities, the ability to regulate behavior, and responses to stressful situations" (NIDA). ... It is believed that many young people are using heroin as an alternative to prescription medications because heroin is cheaper but can have similar effects as prescription drugs. ...

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In a letter written by Emily Murphy, famously known as a Canadian woman's rights activist, to the Magistrate she described the Chinese as drug peddlers whose "habit forming drugs are destroying and enslaving a steadily increasing number of our people." ... There was no doubt in her mind that the Chinese were the downfall of the white race by means of social corruption. ... A radicalized image of drug use was painted for the Canadian public wherein the "innocent" white youth were being corrupted by manipulative Asian traffickers who turned them into immoral "dope fiends...

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Maya has taken her struggles and transformed them into inspirational poems and stories that reflect her ability to overcome adversity and make it in a world where the white male supremacy reigned. ... She longed to possess the light hair and light eyes that are characteristics of a white girl. ... The second section includes Maya's opinions on the lives of black people during slavery and also the oppression of the black culture in the 1960's. ...

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Many of the children have also had the same problems, and are refusing to take school seriously because they don't think that they are special and capable of such success, as some of the white folks appear to have. ... This means that there would be less young people being killed from those illegal substances. Even the people who would seem suspicious to either murder or convince the community to deceive one another would be charged. ... This simply not only gives the community a safer living environment, but would also give the poorer people more jobs to help defeat the rising poverty ra...

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For some people, there's nothing better than reading something that's been banned from major retailers. Most people will agree that when being told not to do something, they feel more inclined to rebel. ... Interestingly, the features are not the only components of the magazine aimed to be racy, but the advertisements are created in a way not found in other typical entertainment magazines, like People or Cosmopolitan. ... Below his outer hand and against the white ivory background, I begin to read the checklist. ... He is wearing shoes, cuffed jeans that expose his white socks, a...

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What causes people to behave in a violent fashion? There are several factors that will cause people to act violently. ... Interestingly, white males were found to be more abusive than black males. ... In today's society, many people are ignorant. They are ignorant to ideas that they don't know about, people with different lifestyles, and people of different ethnic backgrounds, for example. ...

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