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Out of three reasons, I agree with one of the appeals and disagree with two appeals. I agree that there will be no more drug dealer because after drug being free and legalize because there will be no work for pushers. For example, Pushers would have contacted with lots of people who are addicted to drug and those people would come to pushers and buy the drugs from them. Now, since the drugs are free and legalize, pusher will lose the people whom they have had contact with because they will not come to them and buy the drugs since it is free. Secondly, I disagree with the second appeal which says “the mob will lose the main source of its income” because for them drugs are not only the work they do.…
The very mention of drugs summons demonic images: needles, babies addicted at birth, violence. No issue generates such a visceral reaction in people like the topic of drugs. In Mike Gray’s book “Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out,” his analysis of the drug war in America explores the mass hysteria surrounding addiction that was nourished with misinformation. Based on the history Gray has compiled, coupled with modern studies, the drug war appears to be a lost cause, now and into the foreseeable future. In 1909, Dr. Hamilton Wright was appointed as the third U.S delegate to the International Opium Commission at Shanghai and became “personally responsible for shaping the international narcotics laws as we know them today.”…
The movie Traffic proves that Steven Harper’s policy on drugs is preposterous. The American laws against illegal drugs function as a price support system for the criminal drug industry. They don’t stop drugs. Despite billions of dollars spent on toll of death, addiction, crime, and corruption and lives wasted in prison, it is very possible today for anyone who wants drugs to get them. Even Caroline said it’s much easier for someone in high school like her to get drugs than alcohol.…
In the 1980s and 1990s political figures across America declared a “war on drugs”. During this time period Americans believed that the nation’s number one problem was drug abuse. The crack cocaine epidemic was in full effect during this time, and the main users were young poor African Americans. As the war on drugs gained popularity, policing agencies arrested more and more users resulting in increasing incarceration rates. The “war on drugs” resulted in locking drug users up to keep them off of the streets instead of assisting the users in turning their lives around.…
As of the 21st century, regulatory laws have impacted our daily activities and lives. Regulatory laws are regulations that set out certain requirements on what is legal or illegal. The Impact of Regulatory Law on American Criminal Justice- Are there too many laws? by Vincent Del Castillo provides an overview of the results of having regulatory laws. While the book talks about a variety of topics, we will mainly focus on illegal drugs, guns, the police, and also the societal consequences.…
Adjudicatory hearing – This is the actual trial that occurs in a juvenile case. The judge in this hearing will determine whether the facts in the petition (which will be defined separately) are actually true. This decision is made after the judge hears all of the information, along with any testimony. The entire process in an adjudicatory hearing is similar to some of the structure in that of an adult trial, but the hearing is a bit more controlled and without a large amount of the “adversarial system” in play. It is also worth mentioning that there isn’t a jury in an adjudicatory hearing, so the charges must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt before the judge can establish guilt.…
“This proposed legislation does not recognize the wide spectrum of reasons why people use drugs. Those young people now branded with the stigma and criminal record as a ‘drug dealer’ will have their future employment opportunities further reduced — the opposite of a successful rehabilitation effort.” Richard Elliott, The executive director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. (Federal Conservative Government Criminal Justice Policies,…
Reagan ranted and raved about the War on Drugs, started the ridiculously ineffective “Just Say No” campaign, and significantly increased the budgets of many federal law enforcement agencies; it was pure hypocrisy (73). The populations of jails and prisons increased exponentially all across the country, becoming incredibly overcrowded. The War on Drugs makes it nearly impossible for people like Susan Burton and the many women she has helped to break the cycle. A profoundly flawed criminal justice system, systemic racism, redlining, education policy, and poverty are surely all to blame (8). It is a system that survives on a culture of power, a system that runs on the “idea that punishment was always the answer and was always deserved, that getting tough would solve everything” (123).…
Illicit Use A fleeting rush of adrenaline is worth cold sweats in the middle of the night. We inhale them and feel relief, so we kill and maim for them. Despite all the awful things drugs make us do, people keep coming back for more. Addicts rob gas stations, gang bangers push coke across the border and force children to deal.…
The War on Drugs need to be revamped and need to be updated, because when opportunity presents itself to these cartels, who’s going to stop…
The American war on drugs has been a problem since it began in the late 19th century. This so called “war” has been an embarrassment and a failure to the American nation. The war on drugs uses an excess of tax dollars, violates state and individual liberties, and is causing a speedy and frightening deterioration of the Constitution…
The judicial system was buckling down on different drug offenses such as crack-cocaine, marijuana and opium. In 1985 marijuana was marked as the nation’s “number one problem” when it came to drug abuse. More people started using excessive amounts of marijuana since there was a decriminalization law. Eventually, it reached a high of sixty-four percent; programs and treatments were brought upon such as D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) and G.R.E.A.T (Gang Resistance Education and Training). These programs were not just for adults, these were mainly targeted towards the youth so they will be pushed in the right direction.…
Policies enacted in this movement include mandatory minimum sentencing laws like three strikes and truth-in-sentencing. Three strikes laws take away judicial discretion, giving more sentencing power to the prosecutor because they decide what to charge the defendant with. Mandatory minimums often require life sentences for many offenders who are nonviolent and non-serious. These include many drug offenders, where a life sentence will take away any chance they have of getting better. Our current system doesn’t offer any help with addiction; the real reason why many are…
Hard of Listening … How many of us are guilty when it comes to not actively listening to others speak? After 15 years of teaching experience, listening continues to be a challenge for me. According to Evans and Alire (2014), “Effective listening is harder than most people realize.” Listening, not hearing takes patience, skills, and effort. University of Minnesota Duluth (n.d.) mentions how the biggest difference between hearing and listening is “hearing is simply the act of perceiving sound by the ear” and listening is “something you consciously choose to do”.…
The drug market is stronger than ever, yet the drug war has been in full force for several decades. The effects here in the United States, are quite similar to the effects internationally, but there are many solutions other than a drug war, to stop the use of drugs. Nobel laureate and economist Milton Friedman remarked on the issue, “However much harm drugs do to those who use them…seeking to prohibit their use does even more harm both to users of drugs and to the rest of us…Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and improve law enforcement. It is hard to conceive of any other single measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order” (Donohue 146). Friedman is right.…