Say No to Drugs Essay

thing about weed is getting caught with it.” Bill Murray. This quote is very true but there are still people who say that weed is bad and shouldn’t be legalized. They have some very good points as to why this may be. These points include that the bad effects of smoking always outweigh the good and that since it’s already illegal then it must be bad. It is also said that it is a gateway drug. People argue that it’s as addictive as heroin, it’ll screw up the economy, and that it’ll have a negative…

“Traffickers often hide drugs among legitimate cargo in maritime containers, a fraction of which are inspected. Analysis of commercial maritime seizure data for 2004 through 2009 indicates that cocaine and marijuana are most often smuggled in commercial maritime vessels from Caribbean…

Robert Bomber’s presentation on drug crime in Mexico came at a fitting time for me. I had just come off an alternative spring trip dealing with the issues of mass incarceration in the United States that I found extremely relevant to the issues that Bromber discussed. The most interesting part of Bromber’s presentation for me was just this- realizing how closely linked the culture of drug crime in Mexico is linked with crime in America and how dependent these two subcultures are on each other.…

Marijuana is recognized all over the world, it is most commonly used drug by teens. Now if it’s such a popular thing, then why ban it? The government wastes so much money on trying to control a drug that cannot be controlled. Now the crazy thing is how many deaths there is of smoking tobacco and actually drinking alcohol. While tobacco is a major cause of cancer, marijuana helps illness and is used as a pain killer. When a person is under the influence they are more likely to act aggressive,…

In inner city Detroit, the drug trade runs everything. From family dynamics, to source of income, to education, participation in the drug trade is a deep seated practice ingrained in the lives of many African American adolescents. In Luke Bergmann’s ethnography, Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City, Bergmann describes his experience, following the lives of two teenagers and their families engaging the social institution of drug dealing. Dealing is…

States is in a Drug War. A study from the Stanford Law & Policy Review found that fourteen billion dollars was spent in 2009 to fund the war (Street 232). Which is a good chunk of money to spend while the national…

far worse: Psychotropic and psychiatric drugs. According to Mike Adams from Natural News, these drugs have caused “Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years” (Adams). He goes on to list more than 40 shootings and what psychotropic drug they were on, and in almost every single case, they were on drugs prescribed by a doctor. The prescribed drugs Ritalin, Zoloft and Prozac all appeared very frequently on this list. If you look into these drugs, they state VERY CLEARLY that side…

Who would actually want to legalize prostitution? It’s an invitation of sexually transmitted diseases, illegal drugs, and violence all at your door step! Now imagine your family waking up at any hour in the day and seeing an individual leaned over a car and shortly afterwards get in just to return and complete the cycle repetitiously. Or perhaps someone approaching you seeking money for drugs. Wild enough yet? How about your spouse infecting you with a sexually transmitted disease that you know…

attitudes towards women. advocates claim racism might play a role in the controversy. Analysis states people say distasteful things about rap due to subconscious racism. One group was given a violent passage and they were more inclined to say it was offensive if it was from rap rather than a country song. Some people also support that drug and alcohol use starts before listening to rap. The use of drugs and alcohol start when people are young and before they start listening to rap. This…

people that go to jail for drugs are not bad. The reason being they lose their jobs, or something really terrible happens so they turn to drugs. They have never had people to pick them up after they fell off. Many people may argue that the war on drugs takes dangerous criminals off our streets ; while other argue that it does not ; the correct perspective is that the war on drugs does not take dangerous criminals off our street. Some people may argue that the war on drugs takes dangerous…