Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

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 during the zero tolerance for drug usage era. The "war on drugs" led to Congress passing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. This…

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…

As described in Dreamland, OxyContin contains one drug, Oxycodone which comes in doses of either 40 or 80 mg. Most importantly, Purdue Pharmaceutical Company urged its salesmen to emphasize the safety of the drug, such that there was less than a one percent chance of addiction and that there were studies to show this, even when there wasn’t. These Purdue salesmen even offered OxyContin…

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…

Committee 10 Drug Trafficking Islamic Republic of Iran ID: 405911 Position Paper Part One: Background of drug trafficking Drug trafficking in one of the most significant issues internationally. As defined by the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drug and Crime), drug trafficking is an illegal trade that involves the production, selling, distributing, and purchasing of illicit narcotics. There are 200 million illicit drug users worldwide and that number continues to grow everyday. Depending…

the percolation of drugs into our country, Salafist terrorism, and the other superpowers. One of the greatest threats facing America today is the constant percolation of drugs into our country. The DHS and the CBP (Customs and Border Protection agency) do a fantastic job of protecting us from a large share of illicit trade between the US and other countries, but more needs to be done. More specifically we, as a nation, need to step up and deal with the underlying problem of drug addiction - 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 provided the perfect cover for drug traffickers to smuggle drugs…

the war on drugs in 1968 when the Nixon administration decided to redouble efforts against the sale, distribution, and consumption of illicit drugs in the United States (Moore, L. D., & Elkavich, A. 2008). The war on drugs has giving the US a run for there money with the enormous growth in the prison system (Race and the War on Drugs, 2007). In any war in the world there’s always an intended target when the drug laws were enacted, their targets were drug king pins (Race and the War on Drugs,…

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 medical community. Famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud was the first to promote cocaine as a cure to depression and sexual impotence. Freud regularly used the drug and even published an article titled “Über Coca” which promoted cocaine as the “magical…

the anti-drug prohibition that is still a problem to this day. The use of prohibition is not only unconstitutional, but is a failed means of substance control, wastes money, and actually increases usage of the banned substance and organized crime. The damage done to the Economy with prohibition is made clear in the following quote. This is a quote from an article by the American Civil Liberties Union on the topic of drug prohibition. "Criminal prohibition, the centerpiece of U.S. drug policy,…