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Drug Trafficking Between Us And South America
1,626 words... ashington's priority of speeding up border crossings has led to a neglect of the already shrinking interdiction process. DEA agents feel powerless because their requests to mount special operations south of the border including attempts to gain information regarding Mexican politicians corruption by Mexican cartels- are denied due to the current administrations intent to avoid displeasure by the government in Mexico City. In late 1996, the Juarez Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug trafficki...
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Illicit Drugs Mind Altering
699 wordsA major problem that exists within Canadian society is the abuse of mind-altering substances. Such narcotics cause not only health problems, but also violent and potentially criminal acts. A mind-altering narcotic can be defined as both the legal and illegal type. The four main categories of drugs are: narcotics, CNS depressants, CNS stimulants, and hallucinogens. Most of these drugs are highly addictive and are usually obtained by prescription or are considered a banned substance and must be pu...
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U S Population Alcohol And Drug
1,152 wordsEffects of Drug and Alcohol Addiction on Political Socialization in America Political Socialization is the process, by which citizens of a particular region, nation, state, city, or country develop the ways in which they develop views and beliefs about the political issues of their respective areas. This process is developed in America, through this nations citizens families, peers, the media, and their political party involvement (if any). It is the intent of this research paper to show the rea...
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Laissez Faire System War On Drugs
1,225 words"Please, sir... may I have some more?" The Analysis of a Paternalistic Government A Report on Our Right to Drugs by Thomas Szasz You might be tempted to label Thomas Szasz, author of Our Right to Drugs, The Case for a Free Market, a counter-culture hippie. However, this analysis couldnt be further from the truth. Szasz, a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, is a major supporter of civil liberties. He sees the so-called "War on D...
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Pot Smokers Dont Care
964 wordsCurrently the government allows you to smoke a substance that kills over 400, 000 people a year nation wide, and over 3. 5 million a year worldwide. The tobacco companies strive to make this product more addictive (and its already more addictive that heroin! ). In fact, the government not only allows it, but funds it. However, marijuana, in its 5, 000 year history, has yet to produce 1 documented case of death. It has yet to be scientifically proven to have any long-term affects on the brain, an...
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Periods Of Time Dance Clubs
1,109 wordsIt is estimated that 94. 1 million Americans of the age 12 or older has used an illicit drug at least once in their lifetimes, one of those drugs being Ecstasy. Ecstasy (a. k. a. Es, New Yorkers, White Doves, Disco Burgers, Love Doves and Dennis the Menace) was invented in 1914 as a prescription drug, used to reduce appetite and introduced in 1981 to teens in America, who started using it as a recreational drug. It is estimated that one and a half million Es are taken every weekend (mostly in te...
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Potentially Harmful Drug Abuse
1,089 words... out running a test on it. Ecstasy testing kits are portable and discreet testing kits which are quick, easy to use, relatively simple, and inexpensive products which allow people to test unknown pills to help determine their contents. Because the quality of street ecstasy is notoriously poor, having the ability to at least narrow down the possible contents can help reduce the risks associated with the use of street ecstasy. They are important because they can test if a pill contains Ecstasy/...
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War On Drugs D A R E
1,652 wordsDrug prohibition is expensive, does not work, and causes more harms than the behavior it is intended to suppress, therefore the war on drugs should end and the legalization should begin. In 1999 alone, the government issued a whopping $ 17. 1 billion towards the war on drugs. Thats roughly $ 600 per second. According to the United Nations, profits in illegal drugs are so inflated, that three-quarters of all drug shipments would have to be intercepted to seriously reduce the profitability of the ...
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Reefer Madness Illicit Drugs
1,411 wordsIn high school when I first learned about the alluring world of illegal pharmaceuticals, I was scared. My fear was based on all my prior knowledge of drugs was from government propaganda and popular beliefs. Now Im older, and more experienced about drugs. When did the America first begin to be wildly afraid of a plant that has been on this continent since our forefathers ()? Americas fear of illicit drugs can be as far traced back as the prohibition era of the early 20 th century. Pot, a nicknam...
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Academy Of Sciences Institute Of Medicine
1,394 words... hough his mind, that his mother and father were plotting to cut off his arms and legs as soon as they got up in the morning. This horrible obsession fixed itself in his mind; and so real was this imagined threat to him, that he decided the only thing to do was kill them first, while they slept. (reefer madness. org) This really was a case in Florida at the time. The important details about the book forgot to leave out were that Victor had suffered from serious mental problems. His parents we...
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Miami Dade County Religious Groups
1,130 wordsPhase 2 Individual Project - Sociology The aim of this paper is to collect information that will enable to draw some general conclusion about the social groups that are most likely to influence the development of a child in the area, and recommend the types of social services that the city Miami in Dade County may wish to make available. Miami city, Miami-Dade County According to the 2006 American Community Survey, the number of school-age children (population 3 years and over enrolled in school...
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Organized Crime Crime Prevention
505 wordsOrganized crime is a problem that has spread all throughout the international community. In the past, national and regional crime organizations were small, isolated and worked independent of other crime organizations. However in the past few decades free trade and high speed telecommunications has made it easier for such groups to operate, therefore resulting in global Mafiosi that seem to be working together around the globe. This new development makes it hard for governments and the United Nat...
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Marijuana For Medical Purposes Illicit Drug
521 wordsOn November 5, 1996, Californians voiced their honest opinion. Californians voted yes on a very controversial proposition proposition 215. This law allows doctors to prescribe marijuana to patients with diseases that have severe symptoms. For example, cancer patients that undergo chemo-therapy and suffer from severe nausea and aching can benefit from smoking marijuana. Marijuana helps these patients get through these very painful symptoms by numbing the body and soothing the stomach. It also imp...
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Heroin Addicts Illicit Drug
804 wordsEnglish Argumentative Essay Heroin Shooting Galleries Essay, English Argumentative Essay Heroin Shooting Galleries That heroin trials should be considered as a new option to stop death by overdose. The use of heroin has been a long standing problem in society and nothing is going to change. Despite popular belief, it is here to stay. Since the strategy of heroin trials has been proposed it has brought out negative views suggesting that it is the wrong approach. Then what is the right approach? C...
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Heroin Addicts Illicit Drug
753 wordsThe use of heroin has been a long-standing problem in society and nothing is going to change. Despite popular belief, it is here to stay. Since the strategy of heroin trials has been proposed it has brought out negative views suggesting that it is the wrong approach. Then what is the right approach? Continue twiddling or thumbs and crossing our fingers in the hope that the occasional heroin bust will do something more than put a scratch in the solid foundation that is the illicit drug trade? Thi...
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Cannabis Plant Flowering Tops
872 wordsCannabis Marijuana (Cannabis) Marijuana (Cannabis) Cannabis sativa, the hemp plant, grows wild throughout most of the tropic and temperate regions of the world. Prior to the advent of synthetic fibers, the cannabis plant was cultivated for the tough fiber of its stem. In the United Stated, cannabis is legitimately grown only for scientific research. In fact, since 1980, the United States has been the only country where cannabis is licitly cultivated for scientific research. Cannabis contains che...
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Short Term Memory 5 Billion Dollars
1,049 wordsCrime or Past Time According to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Presently, law enforcement arrests a marijuana smoker every 45 seconds in America at a tremendous cost to society. The marijuana issue often times goes in many directions such as legalization, decriminalization, and prohibition. There are good arguments to all three directions. The key to which direction to choose is not that easy. One must way the positives and the negatives of each direction befo...
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Science And Technology Lethal Injection
1,431 wordsMASS MEDIA? S ROLE AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS ON CHILD ABUSE IN THE PHILIPPINES Child abuse by looking and meditating upon these two words, gives most people a vision of the faults and blunders of Philippine society. By citing a common illustration, the notorious Leo Echegaray was proven to have raped his daughter five years ago. Undergoing controversial bills and laws and several, strenuous court trials, the affirmed criminal was utterly sentenced to death through the dreaded lethal injection in wh...
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Terminally Ill Patients Quality Of Life
1,291 wordsLegalizing marijuana for medical purposes has been a debate for many years. Many institutions have opened up to help terminally ill patients receive their dosage of marijuana. One of them being Cannabis Healing Center in California, which was shut down by the government in 1998 because selling or using marijuana for any reason is illegal no matter what. Its a violation of federal law to cultivate or distribute marijuana. Federal law supersedes state law (Marmion 2). Even though marijuana has no ...
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Drug Testing Peer Pressure
2,017 wordsStudent Drug Testing Survey Narrative Schools from 11 states known to have a student drug testing program were surveyed. Of the 26 schools reporting a current student drug testing program, 15 (58 %) report having a mandatory student athletes program while 2 (8 %) have a mandatory all co-curricular student program. Seven (27 %) have a voluntary drug testing program and 2 (8 %) have a reasonable suspicion program only. For the mandatory athletes testing programs, most policies have been in place f...
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