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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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Thomas-Builds-The-Fire also holds a very cultural place in this tale as he fills the role of storyteller and continues the oral tradition common to many indigenous peoples as Mary Pat Fisher indicates in her book Living Religions. Her text labels the position of storyteller as a spiritual specialty among indigenous religions and states, "Because the traditions are oral rather than written, these people must memorize long and complex stories and songs so that the group's sacred traditions can be remembered and taught, generation after generation" (Fisher, 59-60). ... (Brown & Ling 390) T...

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The use of drugs will ruin your mind, emotions, and physical health as many people already know. ... La Guma depicts the harsh reality of drug and alcohol abuse that people in South Africa went through to "escape-. ... He was an older white man who when he was younger had many opportunities for himself, but when his life started to fail he opened himself up to substance abuse. ... He was living in poverty, a white man in a mostly minority neighborhood. ... This information allows people to make the generalization that drugs and alcohol cause a criminal in many people to emerge. ...

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E's, New Yorkers, White Doves, Disco Burgers, Love Doves and Dennis the Menace) was invented in 1914 as a prescription drug, used to reduce appetite and introduced in 1981 to teens in America, who started using it as a recreational drug. ... Some of the most common activities that ecstasy users engage in and reasons why people take MDMA are as follows: 1.) ... People who wish to spend the 'experience' or the high thinking about their personal problems also use ecstasy. ... No matter what is in Ecstasy, it generally comes in the form of a small white pill (it kind of resemble...

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Cocaine is generally sold on the street as a hydrochloride salt, which looks like a fine, white crystalline powder. ... People who frequently use cocaine fall victim to the physical and psychological effects of the drug. ... Placing the same people in jail time after time has had little effect on the cocaine epidemic. ... In teaching people the necessary skills to hold a job, and in providing food and shelter for those who cannot afford it, we will help people help themselves. ... In doing these things, people will have a greater respect for themselves, and an ambition to succeed. ...

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The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy conducted a study to determine how much money is spent on illegal drugs that otherwise would support legitimate spending or savings by the user in the overall economy. ... "Fifty-six percent were White, followed in number by African Americans (26 percent), Hispanics (7.7 percent), Native Americans (2.2 percent), and Asians and Pacific Islanders (0.6 percent). ... In maintenance treatment for heroin addicts, people in treatment are given an oral dose of a synthetic opiate, usually methadone administered at a dosage sufficient to block the e...

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The cause of drug addiction is mistaken by many people. ... Drug use is not a problem for just one group of people. It is a widespread problem among men and women, black or white, gender does not matter. ... Some ways people have tried to cure drug addiction and abuse is through social programs. ... Another method people have used to treat drug addiction is medications. ...

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Whether they are rich, poor, black or white it happens. ... Even people who are in great physical and mental shape are not safe from drug addiction (Peck 14-15). ... Steroids, which are used for muscle building, are obtained illegally by well over a million people. Tens of thousands of these people who use them are males who graduate out of high school. ... Steroids are meant to help people whose health is declining from diseases like 5 osteoporosis, menopause, cancer, and many other disabling conditions. ...

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The concept of free will and who we truly are as people is a subject that should be of the utmost importance when questioned from a philosophical standpoint. ... Frankfurt takes stand that there is not a problem of greater importance to the philosopher then distinguishing what we truly are as people. ... The "Wanton"" is an agent that has no 2nd order volitions, they may have 1st order desires as well as some second order desires but in turn will not have 2nd order volitions making these wantons non people according to Frankfurt. ... Although this concept seems black and white Frankfurt does a...

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They state that marijuana prohibition needlessly destroys the lives and careers of literally hundreds of thousands of good people each year in America. ... It is the marijuanalaws that make innocent people criminals."" ... The jails are overcrowding as more people are convicted of marijuana charges. ... They also say that by making drugs legal, the people who have never tried drugs for fear of being caught by the law will have no reason to be afraid anymore and will become users (Legalization of Marijuana). ... The THC, delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol, in marijuana weakens the immune system...

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Sadly, marijuana was also cited as "causing white women to associate with black men." ... "Anslinger had hoped to make marijuana seem so awful and so terrifying that young people would be afraid to try it even once". ... I proceeded to tell him about how marijuana is often used to help treat people who are suffering from the effects of chemotherapy, which include nausea and loss of appetite. ...

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In today's society, many people look for a feeling of freedom. ... During this time, Dupont Chemicals, Hearst Paper and Timber, and a number of other large companies developed a way to make whiter paper out of trees. ... There is nothing in marijuana itself that causes people to use other drugs. ... Some people ask: "why should marijuana be legalized?" ... These people get locked up in prison and taxpayers have to pay the bill. ...

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But Rosa Lee hated the idea of cleaning up the houses of white families. ... At this point I can understand people getting angry at families like Rosa Lee`s, because they see how their tax money is being spent on crack and heroin instead of on food, clothes and medicine. ... She also stole change out of the pockets from people in church. ... All those people are trapped in a vicious circle and hardly find a way to get out of it. ...

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