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- 151: The Drinking Age
- ... not this one. In France the per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages is sixteen liters, and in the United States it is nine liters and yet the U.S. still has a higher rate of alcoholism. At the age of eight-teen people are considered adults, allowed to vote, able to be held legally responsible for their actions; but people are still restricted from privileges of adults which they are at ...
- 152: THe Use of Marijuana
- ... that it should be illegal? Marijuana causes no physical dependency. The only addiction that marijuana could medically produce would be psychological. Doctors say that the chance of psychological dependency is minute, anyway. Alcohol can cause alcoholism, which is a disease that controls many Americans. Alcoholics often beat their wives and children, drive under the influence of alcohol, and become very aggressive when confronted with problems. If marijuana caused 'marijuanaism;' the results ...
- 153: Should Drugs Be Made Legal?
- ... They also emphasize and contrast Prohibition. When the public realized that Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed. From this, one may infer the same of legalizing drugs. Legalizing alcohol didn't increase alcoholism, so why would drugs increase drug abuse? However, drugs should not be legalized because there would be an increase in drug abuse due to its availability. Once legalized, drugs would become cheaper and more accessible ...
- 154: Teen Violence and Its Causes
- ... wrong and cause a child to become depressed. And a depressed child is not a functioning child, psychologically. And an unfunctioning child is at risk of becoming psychologically unbalanced. This all can lead to drugs, alcoholism, or even abuse to themselves or to others. Then they have become a child that is immoral and a problem to society. All this from divorce, all this because of parents, and an outcome of ...
- 155: Juvenile Delinquency
- ... on the way individuals become delinquents. A series of studies have shown that delinquency rates are above average in the poorest sections of cities. Such areas have many broken homes and a high rate of alcoholism. They also have poor schools, high unemployment, few recreational facilities, and high crime rates. Many young people see delinquency as their only escape from boredom, poverty, and other problems. Social scientists have also studied the ...
- 156: Should Drugs Be Made Legal? (Against)
- ... They also emphasize and contrast Prohibition. When the public realized that Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed. From this, one may infer the same of legalizing drugs. Legalizing alcohol didn't increase alcoholism, so why would drugs increase drug abuse? However, drugs should not be legalized because there would be an increase in drug abuse due to its availability. Once legalized, drugs would become cheaper and more accessible ...
- 157: Legalization of Drugs
- ... try not to repeat the mistakes of the past by continuing to escalate a war that is totally unnecessary.(Boaz, p.120) The repeal of alcohol prohibition provides the perfect analogy. Repeal did not end alcoholismİİ as indeed Prohibition did not--but it did solve many of the problems created by Prohibition, such as corruption, murder, and poisoned alcohol.(Boaz, p.50) We can expect no more and no less from ...
- 158: Should Drugs Be Legalized?
- ... They also emphasize and contrast Prohibition. When the public realized that Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed. From this, one may infer the same of legalizing drugs. Legalizing alcohol didn't increase alcoholism, so why would drugs increase drug abuse? However, drugs should not be legalized because there would be an increase in drug abuse due to its availability. Once legalized, drugs would become cheaper and more accessible ...
- 159: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... John DiIulio, the Brookings Institute fellow who co-wrote the book with William Bennett and John Walters, calls it a "multi variate phenomenon, " meaning that child abuse, the high number of available high-tech guns, alcoholism and many other factors feed the problem. University of Pennsylvania professor Mavin Wolfgang says, "6 percent to 7 percent of the boys in an age group will be chronic offenders, meaning they are arrested five ...
- 160: Legalization of Drugs: Against
- ... car accidents have occurred. Millions of people, including and increasing number of teenagers, are dependent on what has been called the most dangerous drug on earth: alcohol. Dr. Stephen Cohen writes in his book, The Alcoholism Problem, "The harm that comes from Drug X (alcohol) is much greater than the harm from heroin from all respects" (151). Why should we believe that the legalization of illegal drugs will reduce the number ...
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