Office of National Drug Control Policy

been called a lot of words; dangerous, idiotic, a gateway drug to name a few. However, there is reason and evidence to argue these claims as false and irrational. I have researched respected people in the medical field as well as government organizations, and health and safety groups to create a stand on why marijuana should be legalized for medical and economic reasons. Marijuana has been ridiculed in society for decades as being a drug as bad as heroin and cocaine due to lack of study and…

Gretchen Kuntz Nov. 18, 2014 Government Project Mr. Geissel p.7 Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States and was one of the most impacting presidents in American history. Reagan supported and aided every social group of Citizens through his two terms of presidency by the laws and acts he worked to pass. Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911. Growing up for Ronald Reagan was simple, he had one older brother Neil and his parents…

problems came about as a result. “Progressives wanted to bring reforms that would correct these problems and injustices” (Lapsanky-Werner 548). The Progressive presidents were Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson and they held office between 1901 and 1921. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson believed that government needed to regulate the power of big businesses, many of which had become monopolistic. Monopolies often engaged in price setting and produced poor quality goods,…

The United Nations has established the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime in which they’ve stated that the global illicit trade involved “the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, and sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws” (UNODC). The United Nation has determined that although all nations have become transit countries for various illegal substances bound for main…

everything entirely, but it would help. By legalizing this drug, the U.S could tax it and profit off of it. In an article published by the Drug Policy Alliance, it states, “[The] underground market for marijuana, [is] estimated to be worth $30 billion or more in the U.S. This immense market is running completely untaxed” (3). If we legalized and taxed this drug, that would mean nearly 30 billion dollars into the pockets of the government. Making a drug legal just to tax it and profit from it is…

from a major depression, 65% of the men and 45% of the women from a personality disorder and 4% of the prisoners suffer from a psychotic illness (Fazel & Lubbe, 2005). All these mental disorders are, of course, risk factors for suicide, self-harm and drug abuse within custody and after the release, as well as reoffending (Fazel & Seewald, 2010). For instance, a study of Shaw, Baker, Hunt and et al. found that 72% of the prisoners who committed suicide had a history of mental disorder (Fazel &…

Food regulation and food control in the UK Food Fraud Regulation Authorities In the UK, food safety protection are not only managed and controlled by national government, also by non-governmental sector regulators, special interest groups and value chain actors (Mensah & Julien, 2010). They are components of Food Safety Management System (FSMS) which is a systematic approach to controlling food safety hazards within a food business in order to ensure that food is safe to eat (FSMS, 2015). All…

individual, they implemented The War on Drugs in 1971 and purposely attacked minorities, by placing cheap, deadly, addictive, drugs, in poor communities, causing the…

resource bases, resulting in growing dependency. Lastly, inflation. ♣ Social Development of tourism in Costa Rica brings negative impacts such as loss of community coherence and degradation of local culture. Next, growing crime rates, prostitution, drugs and alcohol abuse. Lastly, loss of the access to facilities for local people. 3. Suggest possible solutions for any THREE (3) negative tourism impacts from your answer in Question 2. ♣ Disturbance and biodiversity losses. The solutions…

or why not? Most of the prohibitionist usually argue that drug abuse has to be banned because it is harmful to the health of the various individuals and the prohibition of drugs usually decreases the rate of drug abuse in the general society. According to them, the government should be given the mandate of preventing people from harming themselves through prohibition of drugs in the society. Huemer argues that the prohibition of drug should not be done because the government does not be…