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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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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• Grade Level: High School

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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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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Nixon felt that drugs are bad, so bad people do drugs. ... The reasons people use drugs still exist. ... Black, white, elderly, middle-aged, rich or poor, we all suffer. ... More people then ever are using illegal drugs. ... According to the government's own reports, 80 percent of the country's cocaine users are white and middle class. ...

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Cocaine is white powder made from the coca plant in the Andean mountains in South Africa. ... It usually appears as off-white chunks, chips or rocks. ... Pure heroin is a white powder with a bitter taste. ... Many of them can be bought legally, even by minors (-people that are younger than 18). ... Even people that take it for the first time are taking a risk of death. ...

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Cultivation and Manufacture Smack, china white, horse, black tar . . . all slang names for heroin. ... Flowering Opium Poppy Mexican Black Tar Heroin Heroin #4, also known as Smack, China White, and Horse. ... The leading producers of opium poppy in the world are the hill tribe people of Southeast Asia. ... These dilutants are white and powdery just like the heroin and include caffeine, baking soda, powdered milk, and quinine. ...

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Introduction The American Dream is for many people much more than just a dream. ... Here Tony finds himself surrounded by wealthy people and he then realizes the opportunity he has in the United States. ... People are dancing and the atmosphere is festive. People are dressed well for the occasion and they all appear to be happy and part of the American Dream. ...

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More and more people are getting addicted to alcohol and are running their lives. ... People do get a high and do feel good but overall marijuana is bad for you. ... Nicotine, which is what gets people addicted, can cause many illnesses. ... Why would people continue to be dependent on and use drugs even though consequences are so severe? ... Alcohol causes people to get a false confidence and makes them aggressive. ...

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A study conducted for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, for example, found treatment to be 15 times more cost-effective than law enforcement at reducing cocaine abuse. ... The United States now incarcerates more than 450,000 people for nonviolent drug offenses - more than the entire European Union (with roughly 100 million more people) incarcerates for all criminal offenses combined. ... A large number of people who abuse drugs come into contact with the criminal justice system when they are arrested and subsequently sent to jail or to other correctional facilitie...

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About 9 out of 10 people in the UK drink. ... After 4 to 5 units most people feel less inhibited and more relaxed. After 8 or so units, most people slur their speech and become less co-ordinated and clumsy and some people become more emotional. ... It is generally illegal for people aged under 18 to buy or drink alcohol on licensed premises. ... The industrial revolution caused an upsurge in alcohol use as many people saw it as the ideal way to escape the boredom and pain of their urban working lives. ...

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The key argument made by advocates Duke and Gross is that the major reasons why people desist from smoking and drinking - health, social stigma, morality, aesthetics - are also applicable to the drugs currently labeled 'illegal' (120). ... As Duke states, illegal-drug use has been reduced dramatically in the past few years among white middle and upper classes-but hardly or not at all among ethnic minorities, who largely inhabit out inner cities. ... (Duke 118-125) A secondary point made by legalization proponents on this issue is that while the cheaper prices of narcotics under legal...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The key argument made by advocates Duke and Gross is that the major reasons why people desist from smoking and drinking - health, social stigma, morality, aesthetics - are also applicable to the drugs currently labeled 'illegal' (120). ... As Duke states, illegal-drug use has been reduced dramatically in the past few years among white middle and upper classes-but hardly or not at all among ethnic minorities, who largely inhabit out inner cities. ... (Duke 118-125) A secondary point made by legalization proponents on this issue is that while the cheaper prices of narcotics under legal...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After observing hundreds of brain scans, Coles found various white matter abnormalities in the brains of young adults that had been prenatally exposed to alcohol. ... Even though drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA are illegal for all individuals to use in the United States, substances like nicotine, alcohol, and even marijuana (in Washington State and Colorado) are legal to be used by appropriately aged people. ...

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The proprietors of these thoughts and words were people of all types. ... All of these people had something to say and the media was there to listen to most all of it. ... Some people have always been advocates of the "war on drugs." The media has seemed to go along with these people more so than the people against the war on drugs. ... Some people, like the congressman from Indiana, feel the same way. ...

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• Grade Level: High School