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“And at every level, there is a war on drugs, a war for drugs, and a culture of terror, all created by prohibition.”(Hari 84) Before reading the book, Chasing the Scream, by Johann Hari, I did not know much about drug prohibition. What I did know was that drugs were bad and if you were caught with them illegally you would get put in jail. I grew up not really having drugs be a topic of conversation. Drugs and drug use were not really a part of my lifestyle. In school we learned about drugs but…

Discussion and Key Policy Analysis (4 pages) There are essentially three policy options that can be used to successfully resolve the nation’s conflict with marijuana. The first, and most simple way to handle the dilemma, would be to pertain to the status quo. In other words, the policy option’s aim would be to continue perceiving marijuana as an illegal drug within the United States. Most importantly, the citizens who cultivate or distribute the drug will continue to be criminalized and will…

Students and students athletes should be randomly drug tested. About 570,000people die in the U.S. due to drug use. That makes it to more than 480,000 deaths related to tobacco, about 31,000 due to alcohol, nearly 22,000 due to overdose from illegal drugs, and close to 23,000 due to overdose from prescription pain relievers(teens, NIDA for). Students should be randomly drug tested because drugs give students advantages in sports, a lot of students get bored of their life, teens are hiding it…

Joshua Lyon is the author of this biography titled Pill Head. It is one of the several books Natalie Varghese had left for me once she had moved out of my home. I promise you though with this book you would never get bored. In the broad subject of drugs, the literature we have read never really just goes out there and blurts it out, but he also talks about his sexuality and the city life in a style and approach that remind me of Mothers and Sons, and the Hours. On the count of my personal…

A prime example of the drug war’s backward logic is its distortion of the basic economic principle of supply and demand. The federal government funnels vast resources into criminal justice and interdiction policies intended to reduce the supply of drugs, while neglecting treatment and education strategies that could help reduce drug demand (Supply and Demand, 2015). This particular spotlight on supply decrease has neglected to control composed wrongdoing syndicates and subdue drug exchange…

Proulx, B. B. "Drugs, Arms, and Arrowheads: Theft From Archaeological Sites and the Dangers of Fieldwork." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2011. In this article, Proulx presents the findings from a recent study of archaeological site looting, which mainly focuses on international selling of obtained artifacts, illegally. The author touches basis with the fact that this is a major problem going on worldwide and countries in the Middle East such as Egypt, Turkey, and Syria have a lot…

Based on history within the United States, race plays a role towards policy, when certain ethnic groups come in contact with drugs. Upon interaction, politicians and the media perpetuate the dangers of drugs and its influence on people’s behaviors and crime. By creating drug scare, politicians initiate legislative policies that tackles said drug interactions to gain support. Drug policies are derived from hysteria and fear. Which results in the mass incarceration of minority groups as a means of…

The chapter Public Order Crimes in Criminology 2nd Canadian Edition by Adler et al. (2012), revealed some of Canada 's history for drug laws and discrimination against certain groups of people, however it is still evident in the current drug laws today aswell (p.339-41). Although women are not usually violent drug offenders, or leading criminals, they have become disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs. Drug trafficking offences often overlook the quantities of drugs involved in the case…

For as long as human beings have existed, everything we have done has been to attain an altered state of consciousness. We make relationships to feel love; we go to the gym to feel good about ourselves; we binge television shows to live the lives of others. Another means toward this end is that of drugs. Some drink coffee to feel alert; some smoke marijuana to feel relaxed; some ingest psilocybin to escape to another world. Human beings of all cultures have been using and respecting drugs for…

In “My Father the Drug Dealer” Tony Dokoupil writes about life with a father who was a drug dealer. In the article Tony talks about how life was and how it impacted him in both a positive and negative way. In the article Tony Dokoupil writes that his father’s implosion was too complete for him to really fear becoming him. Tony continues on and says he has a great life with a wife and kid on the way and a job he enjoys. That is why it is hard for him to imagine detouring into a life of drugs and…