Drug control law

Liberal Drug Approach In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs and four decades later the United States has spent $1 trillion (Branson). What do we have to show for it as Americans? The world’s largest prison population at 2.3 million people and more than half a million of the inmates are imprisoned due to drug violations (Branson). About 460,000 more people in jail and prison today than in 1980 all from drug related crimes (Branson). The United States has the strictest drug…

analysis project is titled “Stronger gun laws will save lives” by Christine Watkins. The broad issue about this article is there are loopholes allowing someone to purchase a handgun without documenting the transaction. According to the author that’s how many firearms end up being sold to felons or people who aren’t allowed to own firearms. The author’s research states that 400,000 gun crimes are committed every year. The broad issue in this article is many laws are trying to be passed in order…

banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, drugs, and booze won’t rid the world of criminality.”-Vince Vaughn. Gun control, a widely renowned useless effort that is used in an attempt to have more strict laws on the possession of firearms. Gun control could compare to the alcohol prohibition. Did the prohibition stop citizens from obtaining alcohol? No, people obtained it illegally. Gun control poses an infringement on an American citizen’s right that was created by…

this writing assignment, I will discuss my opinions on, how Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development might be incorporated into the Justice System. I will show how the concept of justice relates to the field of criminal justice and how it’s applied by law enforcement officers. - Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development took place in a sequence of events that developed into a broad growth of rational ability or knowledgeable reason. Kohlberg’s studies led him to believe there are three stages of…

As of November 9, 2016 proposition 64 was passed into a law. Proposition 64 gives the legal right to any adult of the age of 21 to be able to use, possess, transport, and even grow certain amounts of non medical marijuana. Retail locations for recreational marijuana use will not be open until January 1, 2018. It is also stated in proposition 64 that in the state of California, each county will be able to determine if the use of recreational marijuana will be legal or not. This is a very…

The argument on whether drugs should be legalized has been going on for so long now. Some people say as an Americans we have the right to choose whether we want to do drugs or not. It is really hard to control the consumption of drugs, because people are going to do them whether they are legal or illegal. Other people say that the laws that are being enforced now are good to control drugs. “There will also be more unpublicized fatal and maiming crashes, more job accidents, more child neglect,…

in many forms. In England members of other religions, such as Quakers, were often arrested on various charges and received unjust punishment. Although attempting to flee the often heavy handed laws and unjustified punishments, for the most part settlers brought the same practices of English common law to the new land. Around the 1670s, William Penn organized the first reform of these early criminal justice practices when he wrote a charter of liberties for the settlements of West New Jersey…

believe that legalizing the drug would help save the tax payers money that is often spent to try to curb the use of the drug. Instead the government would earn revenue from marijuana trade. On the other hand those who oppose argue that legalizing marijuana would increase its consumption and consequently worsen the situation. There is no valid proof that legalizing marijuana would increase its usage. However there are valid reasons to…

regulations and laws. Nursing Care delivery is a very dynamic and challenging and ever evolving, it deals with a very important aspect the human life. That is why it is very much necessary for this profession to be streamlined and regulated in the most acceptable and safe manner and also keeping in mind the laws of the land to which both the provider (nurse) and receiver (patient) of care is obliged to. One of the objective of Victoria state health practitioner regulation national law is to…

6. PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS AMMENDMENT 6.1 Unethical behaviour of Doctors Doctors can be forced by law to write an ‘official’ prescription but they can still ‘unofficially’ prescribe branded drugs. A report by India’s Income Tax Dept. states that many leading pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors for prescribing their drugs. The Pharma Companies deny this and say that the money was transferred so that the doctors educate patients. The doctors will be at advantage until the bill is…