Students for Sensible Drug Policy

In Jeffrey A. Miron’s Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition, he discusses the current battle with the regulation and legalization of drugs in the United States and provides an analysis of the problems associated with prohibition. One important aspect of this book, which makes it an excellent, read and economic analysis of prohibition is that he plays both sides of the coin, providing arguments for both prohibitionists and people in favor of the legalization. However, his main point is that prohibition, rather than drug use, causes the evils typically attributed to drugs. Miron offers a balanced, sophisticated and in-depth analysis of the true costs, benefits, and consequences of strictly enforcing drug prohibition. He argues that…

That Is the “War on Drugs”: A Wasteful Battle. The United States government is fighting an inefficient war, the ““War on Drugs””. Government officials need to rethink this war and its drug policy’s. In 1971 President Nixon launched what seemed like the right thing to do and started a drug prohibition. However, this “War on Drugs” is responsible not only for $51 billion of the United States debt but also discriminating people, overcrowding prisons and destroying people’s lives with non-violent…

large reduction in drug related deaths in the following years, statistics show that use of controlled substances has increased in a number of areas. Health actors in this policy area are very strongly tied to each stage of the policy cycle, including evaluation, and despite some successes, this policy has been evaluated as both positive and negative by different groups of health professionals (Hughes & Stevens, 2010). The final key actor in the drug policy space is the legal group. Under…

U.S. Policy makers dominate the “War on Drugs” for them to arrest ordinary citizenship for their illegal drug substance usage. In the year of 1971, Richard Nixon, the former U.S. President, declared the war on drugs against America society who refused to comply with the law by using it. The purpose is to make waves of arrests of the general population. The budget to fund the federal war is in the trillions of dollars, which covers expenses of weaponry and enforcements so they can maintain…

back, the first laws pertaining to the illegalization of drugs started on a state and local level rather than federal. Anti-drug laws have been established in the United States with the earliest one dating back to an ordinance passed by San Francisco in 1875 against the use of opium dens (Fisher, 2014). Over the past 40 years, The War on Drugs is a phrase commonly associated with the United States government effort to eradicate the use and distribution of drugs by means of legislation and law…

Drug testing shouldn’t be in schools because it distracts students from the entire learning, which is the purpose of them being in school in the first place. Drug testing in schools are not that popular, due to the cost as well as many other factors. Less than 5% of high schools in the U.S. perform random drug tests on their students (Students for Sensible Drug Policy, 2015). There are some schools that require students to submit to drug testing if they want to participate in any…

D.A.R.E. The D.A.R.E. program stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Program. D.A.R.E. - ProCon.org. (2014) describes the D.A.R.E. program as “a school-based substance abuse, gang, and violence prevention program in %75 of US school districts and in 48 countries (as of 2013)” D.A.R.E. The program is a bridge between police officers who teach the program and the students in elementary, middle, and high school. D.A.R.E. is one of the most popular drug prevention programs for students and parents.…

In 2013 2.1 million criminal code and federal statute offenses, were reported by the police which is the lowest recorded crime rate in Canada since 1969. (Statistics Canada, 2013) Wouldn 't these decreasing crime rates suggest that Safe Streets and Communities Act has done more good than harm? Theoretically yes, but many such as the students for Sensible Drug Policy believe that Bill C-10 is harming our society, especially the youth. “For young people whose substance use does not…

I needed credible information to help support each reason on the list. For the first reason on my list, reduced binge drinking, I used statistics and information about binge drinking from an article in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette and from the website of an organization known as the Students for Sensible Drug Policy. My second reason, decreased drinking and driving accidents, used statistics from the United States Bureau of Transportation and MADD Canada to get the rates of drinking and driving…

The first solution to help combat drug abuse at Australian music festivals is educating the music festival volunteers/staff members as well as the attendees on the different types of drugs that is out there, how to properly consume it and its effect on the human body. Major organizations that aid in providing public health include the environmental health practitioners (EHP), local government authorities (LGA) as well as volunteer organizations which provide volunteering staff members at music…