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- 2031: Illegal Drugs
- ... freedom and their future all for drugs. Each year drug use is the cause of a large number of accidents at home in the office and on the road. Everybody pays the price of drug abuse: more cops and prisons more hospitols and treatment centers and many lives lost. But drug users hurt themselves more than anybody because they are supporting violent crimes in the drug world. Just by using drugs ... both. If a person is cought selling a drug than they may be sentenced no more than a year and or a fine of 3,000 In 1970, the U.S. congress passed the Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. this new act created five catagoriess of different drugs depending on how dangerous they were. It also made drug laws tougher than they were in the past. In 1981 the U ... U.S. drug sales were over 100 billion dollars a year. In the past years there have been some signs that anti-drug laws are working. A survey done by the National Institute on Drug Abuse indicates that the number of people using drugs has dropped. But it will take more than just tough laws to stop the drug trade. It will take money to help pay for cops and ...
- 2032: The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... and we won. This part of the bill states: "Whoever....makes, creates, or solicits...........any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent.......with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person......by means of an Internet page..........shall be fined $250,000 under title 18......imprisoned not more than two years....or both......" The writer of that paragraph of the bill ... of this bill would have listed that as a requirement there would have been no trouble. Here is the way I look at it. I think that some things should be censored on the Internet. Child pornography, for instance, is already illegal, so it follows that it should also be illegal on the Internet. Besides, psychologically, it damages the children involved. Something else that should be banned from the Internet are ...
- 2033: The Social Plague of Crime and Criminals
- ... this theory is the resulting situation conjugal visits can produce. Several crimes have been committed during unsupervised conjugal visits including spouses smuggling drugs and weapons into the facilities, i nmates escaping, and inmates committing murder, child abuse and domestic violence.(Assemblywoman Paula Boland) California is one state that allows for conjugal visits for prisoners. On average $22,000 dollars per inmate is allotted for prison life activities, and perks. This justice view ...
- 2034: History of the American Drug War
- ... When the law had passed, the AMA protested, but the law was never repealed. It is difficult to determine how many people in the US use drugs. The Federal Government's Household Survey on Drug Abuse, is the most common set of statistics on the use of drugs. According to the latest surveys, conducted by the DEA, there are about 12.7 million people who have used an illegal drug in ... people who have used an illegal drug in the past month, about 10 million are casual drug users and about 2.7 million are drug addicts. The figures produced by the Household Survey on Drug Abuse are obtained over the phone. Therefore, there was a problem reaching those without phones, those who didn't answer their phones, and those who answered the question honestly. Other surveys put the figures at least ... and in my administration we're going to train the National Guard to stop it from coming across the border." Bob Dole continuously blames Clinton for the rise in teen drug use, and how drug abuse doubled when he was governor of Arkansas. Senator Dole had voted against the crime bill that had the death penalty for drug kingpins in it and voted to cut services to 23 million schoolchildren ...
- 2035: Native American Recognition
- ... citizens. (Billions) This is a sickening display by the government that only further oppresses this exhausted group of people. Said by John Echohawk, director of the Native American Right Fund, "Our people have historically suffered abuse after abuse. We have continuous problems with unemployment, health care and education. It just goes on and on." (Billions) Because of this repeated abuse, the Native American population holds the highest poverty levels of any group in America. (Issues) The attempts to rehabilitate Native American life are certainly recognizable, but need to be on a larger scale and ...
- 2036: Kids, Like Adults, Are Facing
- ... on schoolwork according the study found, has decreased from 40 percent of After collecting minute-by-minute time diaries that looks at hbw wefl today's chddren are tiri a national study released today. a child's dav in 1981 to 25 percent last year. from the families of 3,600 children, researchers Researchers found, for e,ample, that cv Among the most striking changes is the 'Children are affected by the same time crunch were able to describe in detail how a typical child's hour spent reading each week translates int rease in time spent at school, up by an average that their parents are affected by," said Sandra week plays out, from the average 74 hours half ... iget, but because more children are in preschool much more time in structured environments." front of televisions on weekdays, down from two on tests in which the mean scote was IOEL dIeters- and after-school child-care programs, The researchers do not conclude that this hours in 1981. But television still occupies far The study suggests that the amount of ti, searchers said,transformation in fiamily routines is necessarilv more ...
- 2037: Why Drugs Should Be Legalized!!!!
- ... which they are sold. Drugs could only be sold in certain amounts and would come with instructions as to how much it is safe to consume. In 1988, over 48,000 Americans died from alcohol abuse, 400,000 from cigarette- related illnesses and less than 3,000 from illegal drugs. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop testified that tobacco is just as addictive as heroin and less so than marijuana. Illegal ... restrictions would have to be set. Likely, an age restriction would have to be adopted. Restricting the use of drugs to adults only, and educating the youth of the potential dangers should help curb adolescent abuse. Prohibiting acts such as driving a vehicle under the influence of a mind- altering substance would likewise be necessary. Another necessity would be the destruction of all those with prior criminal records due to the ... a public facility, non-smoking areas would have to be set up. A system of drug regulation that would include the above provisions, public health and agricultural regulations, and a form of taxation would discourage abuse, protect public health and safety, reduce crime, and raise revenue. "Regulation is the inevitable replacement of prohibition."
- 2038: Mary Jane: The Devil Weed
- ... application was approved for THC (Marinol) to be used therapeutically for control of nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy" (Jaffe, 663). This moved THC from Schedule 1 to 2 (medical use despite potential for abuse). How dangerous is marijuana? Jaffe notes that "any performance test shows impairment....although no distinctive biochemical changes have been found in humans." Andrews writes, "Physical effects of marijuana use is probably the major question....The answer? None." O'Brien, Cohen, Evans, and Fine, reported that the National Institute on Drug Abuse found, "Marijunan now available is five to 10 times more potent than it was a half dozen years ago" (178). While these statements may not sound conclusive, the Institute of Medicine, according to O'Brien ... Drugs (Doubleday & Co.). pp. 4-12. Jaffe, Jerome H. (1995). Encylopedia of Drugs & Alcohol (Simon & Schuster). pp. 659-663. O'Brien, R., Cohen, S., Evans, G., and Fine, J., (Eds.). (1992). The Enclopedia of Drug Abuse (Facts on File, Inc.). pp. 175-179.
- 2039: Legalization of Drugs
- ... in 1983 reported having used alcohol just prior to committing their offense. The impact of drug legalization on this drug connection is the most difficult to predict. Much would depend on overall rates of drug abuse and changes in the nature of consumption, both of which are impossible to predict. It is worth noting, however, that a shift in consumption from alcohol to marijuana would almost certainly contribute to a decline ... and crime in our societies today. Children can get their hands on these illegal and dangerous drugs so easy now it is crazy. If drug use was legalized it would become almost impossible for a child under age to get these drugs. It would stop many young people from becoming junkies, while making them into better people that would contribute to their community. If a person wants to mess their bodies ...
- 2040: Legalization of Drugs
- ... which they are sold. Drugs could only be sold in certain amounts and would come with instructions as to how much it is safe to consume. In 1988, over 48,000 Americans died from alcohol abuse, 400,000 from cigarette- related illnesses and less than 3,000 from illegal drugs. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop testified that tobacco is just as addictive as heroin and less so than marijuana. Illegal ... restrictions would have to be set. Likely, an age restriction would have to be adopted. Restricting the use of drugs to adults only, and educating the youth of the potential dangers should help curb adolescent abuse. Prohibiting acts such as driving a vehicle under the influence of a mind- altering substance would likewise be necessary. Another necessity would be the destruction of all those with prior criminal records due to the ... a public facility, non-smoking areas would have to be set up. A system of drug regulation that would include the above provisions, public health and agricultural regulations, and a form of taxation would discourage abuse, protect public health and safety, reduce crime, and raise revenue. "Regulation is the inevitable replacement of prohibition."
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