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I. AGD: Thank You, Good Afternoon. If you don’t mind me asking, how many people here are for the legalization of all drugs? Now take a second to imagine what you could do with one trillion dollars… It sure could fix a lot of problems in the world. Well, according to William Reed, president of the Business Exchange Network in his article, “Time to Repeal the War on Drugs”, one trillion dollars is how much the United States has spent on the War on Drugs since it started in 1970. And it is a…

Literature Review What is marijuana? It is a, “dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa,” (“Marijuana”, 2016). Nothing that is good or your body and in Colorado alone, marijuana related hospital visits increased by a 154 percent from 2006 to 2014 (“Unpacking pot”, 2016). The fact is that drugs, not just marijuana, are a big part of not just Americans lives, but everyone around the world. It is getting out of control for the government and police departments…

It’s Time to Legalize 2 out of every 10 Canadians smoke marijuana every year for recreation or medical use (Hajizadeh, 2016). In recent news there is debate if marijuana should be legalized in Canada. Marijuana is grown from the cannabis plant which is currently classified as an illegal substance in Canada and many other countries around the world. Marijuana usage has become a known part of society, and people will continue to crave the substance if it becomes legalized or not. Marijuana has…

The war on crack cocaine became publicized with help of the media and shortly after Ronald Reagan started his presidency his wife also joined in the “war on drugs”. She started the phrase “say no” which was a campaign assisted in creating a zero tolerance for drug usage. This campaign once more targeted blacks by targeting the drug forms that were mostly associated with them. More people that were addicted to drugs such as crack cocaine were subject to draconian penalties that were passed…

In recent years, the war on drugs in America has become a growing problem. In William Bennett’s paper, “Drug Policy and the Intellectuals”, he stresses the issue of “intellectuals” ignorantly becoming advocates of legalization. He talks about how changes in current drug policies would help stunt the growing drug epidemic, saving people from loosing their personalities and lives to drugs. Lastly, he suggests that legalization would give the government, and therefore the people, a fat receipt to…

Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, focused on the opiate epidemic that has been flourishing within America. Similarly, the documentary, Heroin Cape Cod, USA focused on the widespread abuse of Vicodin, Percocet, and Oxycodone that has led the U.S. into the rise of an opiate addiction today. Both of these sources not only focused on the operations behind the administration of opiates like heroin, but also the factors driving the epidemic in the U.S. A driving factor of the opiate epidemic both…

Critically explore the boundaries between drug users and drug dealers in the UK cannabis market. This essay will look at the boundaries and relationships between cannabis users and the cannabis dealers within the UK. Firstly examining the legislation and the current policies that have been implemented to try and deal with the medical, physiological problems with cannabis. Secondly linking the legalisation and policies upon cannabis that have already been implemented throughout the United…

The greatest country on earth, America is not liked by everyone. Some hate us for our interventionist policies, some for our values, and some just hate us because we stand in their way of global domination and subjugation of the human race. America faces many threats today. Internal or external, minor or existential, these dangers take many forms and come from many areas of the world - including at home. Three of the most pressing ones are the percolation of drugs into our country, Salafist…

President Clinton comes into office with a new approach to the War on drugs. Unlike his predecessors, he as actually tried illegal drugs, just marijuana, and grew up with the antiwar protests. Clinton’s view on the drug is that it was a disease that can be treated and spend millions of dollars into funding treatment centers. One of his failures is that went he signed the North Atlantic deal with Canada and Mexico, it made it hard for the DEA agents to find drugs in the products. The deal…

When the leaves were chewed they would act as a mild stimulant and helped to relieve fatigue, stop pain, and suppress appetites. The Andean natives would also drink coca leaves by brewing them into a tea. The leaf in its natural form is harmless and is comparable to coffee. In 1859 a German chemist by the name of Albert Niemann isolated the active ingredient (an alkaloid) from the coca plant and created the drug known as cocaine. It wasn’t until the 1880s that cocaine began to be used in the…