disparities that have resulted because of it. In the House of Representatives a new bill was introduced on January 7‚ 2009. Policy number H.R.265‚ was cited as “Drug Sentencing reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2009. The never ending drug trade and the policies that try to limit it‚ have far-reaching impacts in the United States and other countries. Over the last twenty years‚ U.S. politicians have responded to mounting drug abuse at the local and national levels with increasingly unjustly
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themselves. I will start evaluating this statement by checking the argument from any hidden premises to make sure that it is stated fully and in a clear way. Drug dealing should not be a crime is not a true statement because drug dealing has been illegal through the world for over a century now‚ it is also the cost of the cost of the biggest problems our government and the society is facing today. Dealing drugs have ruined people’s lives‚ and their family broken apart. I would rewrite this statement
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Although now illegal‚ and rightfully so‚ there are many retail stores‚ smoke shops and gas stations that still sell the drug all over Georgia and around the Metro Atlanta area. As quick as officers take it off the shelves‚ it’s being replaced just as fast. Shop owners feel it’s a violation of their civil rights and use excuses like “we can’t control what customers do with what they buy” or they tell officers they didn’t know it was illegal‚ “it’s just incense”. If they didn’t know it was illegal and didn’t
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they had to be banned in society because people were abusing them. Many of these drugs now known as illegal substances were considered legal and were manufactured and created by chemists‚ and at some point were used for medical reasons. Unfortunately‚ due to many detrimental effects of prolonged use that caused human beings to become sick or die‚ these drugs were deemed dangerous and made illegal by the government. William Bennett ’s "Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized" goal was to tell
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government’s attempts to end the import‚ manufacture‚ sale‚ and use of illegal drugs. It is not a specific term only relating to a secret policy or objective‚ but to a series of antidrug initiatives that are directed towards the common goal of ending drug abuse. These initiatives include different drug policies in the United States that are intended to lower and discourage the manufacturing‚ distribution‚ and consumption of illegal psychotropic drugs. The War on Drugs started with President Dwight D
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expecting a different result; this statement fairly sums up the War on Drugs. Let us imagine a scenario of two men‚ one of them has killed 4 young women in cold blood‚ for ‘sport’ as he likes to say; the other man was caught with a large amount of an illegal drug. In prison it would not be unlikely for these two to share a cell‚ but my question is why? Why are these drastically different crimes seen as being worthy of the same punishment? According to a pro-marijuana web site‚ studies show that in Dallas
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Lori Ellis English 101 Research Paper Mr. Berger
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Adds criminal penalties for giving i to anyone under 21 years of age. weakens drug cartel and enforces road and workplace safety. It will generate billions in revenue‚ and save tax payers money. When marijuana is illegal‚ the government ends up spending unnecessary money just to jail illegal marijuana users. Some people may argue that smoking marijuana isn’t a serious or dangerous crime and it’s comparable to drinking with less health consequences. The passing of prop 19 would solve California’s overcrowded
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that Heroin and Cocaine should be kept illegal. Perhaps the strongest argument Wilson gives to support this claim‚ is that a government may rightly restrict an individual’s liberty to prevent harm to others. Although this is in violation with an individual’s freedom of thought and speech. In this paper‚ I will present two arguments from Kantian ethics and Douglas Husak that refute this idea‚ and further show that heroin and cocaine should not be kept illegal. Again in "Against the legalization
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Book Review Gang Leader for a day Sudhir Venkatesh‚ a student of University of Chicago‚ majoring in Sociology. From the very first week‚ he got warning that not to wander outside of the area of patrol. Venkatesh with a lot of spare time on hand began to wandering around the campus. The poor areas beyond the safety line soon make him wonders: How’s the life there? Do they go to work? What jobs do they have? What’s
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