Decriminalization

Allen Ginsberg, along with a few of his close friends, founded the movement that we know today as the Beat Generation. Ginsberg wrote about many topics, including gay rights, the decriminalization of drugs, free speech, and the general perversion of America’s political system. He wrote directly from his experience of being a homosexual man living in a time of challenging the traditional authorities and rules that once governed our lives. Ginsberg never wondered if what he wrote was too raw or…

Religious Liberties Religious liberties is a highly debatable subject with very passionate supporters and opponents which has caused a major division in the country. This disagreement is present between the two major political parties with the Republican Party as supporters while the Democratic Party currently leads the opposition. The current debate is focused on whether the government should allow owners to refuse service to people based on their sexual preference citing a religious objection…

The movie Reefer Madness was produced in the 1930s as propaganda, in order to make people believe that smoking marijuana would make them go insane or commit violent crimes. There was no proof of the accusations, but it scared enough people to keep them from smoking marijuana. The movie was intended to give marijuana a negative reputation, and it succeeded. In today’s society there is a stigma surrounding the use of marijuana, which I believe the movie helped to create. Over the last hundred…

The mind of man has an incredible capacity to find justifications for anything, no matter how bad it is. According to the article from the New York Times, “Marijuana: Breaking Down the Buzz” it was discovered in the 1920’s that tobacco cigarettes cause cancer. However, it wasn’t until the 1960’s that smoking levels began to drop. Despite overwhelming evidence, it took 40 years for people to accept the dangers of inhaling cigarette smoke, but millions still smoke today! Now history is repeating…

The Geo Group Jose A. Medina Professor Cassandra Garrett Monroe College of Criminal Justice Fall 2015 Abstract The research is concentrate on the GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) formally known as Wackenhut Corrections Corporations, founded by former FBI agent George R. Wackenhut. The GEO Group is a corporation that specializes in providing correctional, detention and community reentry services. For more than 30 years the GEO Group has profited billions of dollars from federal and state policies…

A drug is generally defined as something that alters behavior, perception or consciousness. The FDA specifically defines a drug as “a substance (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body” (2012). The main types of drugs used today are alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, heroin, crack, cocaine, steroids, methamphetamines, barbiturates, marijuana, and all manner of prescription drugs (NIDA, n.d.). A handful of these drugs are illegal in the United States, some are only…

Biology Has More to Say about Sexuality than People Do The most fundamental question of psychology is whether or not behaviors and characteristics are a result of our genetics or the conditions our body is put in after birth. This nature versus nurture debate is far from being settled and forms the foundation of most behavioral studies. A common behavior studied is homosexuality, defined as, “love, desire, and/or sexual acts between people of the same sex” (Roof). The term homosexuality is…

The Weimar Republic was a period of cultural creativity amongst the environment of hyper-inflation and depression, but Berlin drew the talent and energies of the rest of Germany towards its enticing cabaret performances and sex tourism. This cultural creativity included a newly liberated female population in which films began to present their female characters in sexual ways. The whole period of the Weimar Republic was a time of sexual liberation. My research question for my paper is, how did…

After the final bomb was dropped in 1945, the social landscape and status of women in America began to change. The Second World War created job opportunities for women, opening the door for positions usually reserved for men. Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home (10, “American Women in World War II”). This active participation in the labour…

younger people think it should be legalized, but when people get older the percentages get closer and closer, and eventually pass and older the person the more they think it should not be legal ("Section 2: Views of Marijuana – Legalization, Decriminalization, Concerns”). Marijuana is more socially accepted by younger groups of people, rather than the older people, but there are some health risk with marijuana that is not very…