Drug court

Many people are thrown in jail for drug laws and I am going to go through the branches of government and tell you what they do about illegal drugs. Senate judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley said in a floor speech that state laws legalizing marijuana are Unconstitutional. Obama administration’s decision not to enforce the federal law banning marijuana in states that have legalized the drug is an abuse of prosecution discretion. In the judiciary branch there must be a mandatory sentencing. Even…

marketing skills to increase the use of Valium, thereby creating the first 100 million dollar drug. His marketing approach included: indulging doctors with expensive dinners; offering generous speaking fees; and fancy junkets. This approach has been so effective that the entire industry has adopted it. Arthur was so ingenious, that he realized from completing research that the growth area in pharmaceuticals was pain medication. Consequently, in 1984, Purdue Pharma took a cancer pain…

of fighting juvenile misconduct and to gather statistics across the nation. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act was brought about by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, which required states to keep the juvenile courts segregated from the adult courts. The website Maryland.gov states this Act required “(1) youthful offenders were to have ‘sight and sound separation” from adult offenders…(2) youth who have committed ‘status offenses’ (curfew, truancy, alcohol possession, etc.)…

The war on drugs is an ongoing problem in the United States that will never be solved by prohibition. In this country taking things off the shelfs like alcohol and making it illegal to consume like in 1919 when the Eighteenth Amendment was passed will always cause illegal activity. The authors of the Sober Truth who quoted “in 1919, a watershed: the Eighteenth Amendment, enshrining into law a nationwide prohibition on the sale of alcohol. Any promising treatments that may have arisen between…

What happened in this case was that the school believed that drugs were being sold on school grounds. They believed this due to students telling them this and giving names. They searched what I believe to be is two girls. Savana however, is the main person. Her parents made a claim against the school district stating that her daughter’s fourth amendment right was violated. This is because the school made her do a strip search to see if drugs were hidden in places that they could not touch…

Portugal today is a place that thrives on tourism; it is known for its beaches, wines and corks, and Cristiano Ronaldo, but it all started somewhere. Portugal’s name comes from the Latin phrase “beautiful port”. Portugal history starts way back to the 15th and 16th century, being one of Europe’s oldest nations. Portugal was seen as a world power back during colonization times, having colonies in South America, Africa, and Asia. Portugal slowly began to lose that when the English, French, and…

On March 12 2012, Harpers conservative government implemented omnibus bill that introduced many new mandatory minimum sentences (cbc,2012). As part of Harpers tough on crime agenda, the bill introduced mandatory minimum sentences for crimes such as drug trafficking, child exploitation and some other violent offences(cbc,2012).In accordance to their tough on crime agenda, the harper government has introduced so many new mandatory minimums sentence, to the point that we now have the second most…

Drug smuggling is an offence when an individual transports drugs from one country to another. A man named Olaf Dietrich smuggled at least 70 grams of Heroin packed in condoms which he had swallowed. On the 17th of December 1986, Dietrich flew into Melbourne airport from Thailand and got arrested by the Australian federal police the next morning, when the police found one of the condoms in the kitchen, and some heroin in a plastic bag under a rug in another room. Dietrich went to the high court…

Drug Paraphernalia Florida Statute 893.145 The Fort Lauderdale Defense Lawyer Bradford Cohen has experience in criminal cases of Drug Paraphernalia. You can be criminally charged with possessing syringes, rolling papers, pipes, bongs, straws, or anything else used to ingest or assist in ingesting illegal narcotics. There is a wide use of discretion when it comes to getting charged with this crime. Usually it is charged along with a criminal charge of possession of drugs or narcotics, but it…

Drug addiction in America is something that is frequently talked about, in movies, on television shows, and in simple everyday conversations. If there was a way to change that, and make addiction less common, then people should be jumping at the chance, but they’re not. Portugal has decriminalized drugs and their addiction rate has gone down, their people are healthier. If the United States even tried to do that, many people would be angry, but I believe that decriminalizing illicit drugs would…