History of the American Drug War The first act of America's anti-drug laws was in 1875. It outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This was a San Francisco ordinance. The basis on passing this law was that Chinese men had a way of luring white women to their dens and causing their "ruin"...

Drug abuse is a huge problem in the United States and throughout the world. Each year more and more people become addicted to drugs. The situation keeps getting worse even though the government spends millions of dollars yearly on drug control. Rehab clinics help addicts get over their problem, but ...

Everyone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems caused by drug abuse. Concern about the abuse of drugs is so most serious problems in today\'s world, threatening the security and freedom of whole nations. Politicians, health experts, and much o...

`As the nation\'s drug problem persists, issues continue to haunt communities. The question is, will legalizing drugs really help, or will legalization make problems increase in our society? If drugs remain illegal, several complications that could appear as a result of legalization will never occur...

Drugs, Crime and Prohibition Do drugs really cause crime, or is it our governments way of controlling the communities? Many people blame drugs for every problem in our society, but is it the true evil in our society? No one person can answer that question. There are only opinions and s...

Eliot Marshall once said "The discovery and invention of substances that change the way we feel and behave are among man's special accomplishments". Man has been given the ability to alter a person's behavior, mood, health, thoughts, and perception. However, due to government ...

The decriminalization of illegal drugs in America has been a growing debate within both political and community circles for many years now. A lot of people can say that there are advantages on both sides of the argument. However, I believe that maintaining and enforcing our laws agains...

It is frequently stated that illegal drugs are "bad, dangerous, destructive" or "addictive" and that society has an obligation to keep them away from the public. But no where really, can be found reliable, objective scientific evidence that they are any more harmful than substa...

INTRODUCTIONPresident Richard M. Nixon signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act on October 27th, 1970. Moments later, he turned the law over to Attorney General John Mitchell, head of the Justice Department at the time, who was directed to head the federal drug-law enforcement ...

Since our Country's "War on (a certain few herbs and) Drugs" causes such carnage, devastation and so many deaths, in our towns and cities, I do hope that more and more people speak out about all the harm and all the deaths that our current Prohibition causes. Perhaps it's worth reminding folks abou...

Opium is a bitter, yellowish-brown, strongly addictive narcotic drug prepared from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. It is possibly one of the most versatile drugs known thank to its principle active ingredient, mo...

Legalization of Narcotics Narcotics, or drugs, are substances that affect the body's functions. They can stimulate the mind, make people depressed, or make them hyper. Marijuana, heroin, LSD, PCP, cocaine, and anabolic steroids are all considered narcotics. Narcotics are illegal in the...

Drug czar Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas) pretty much sums up this Activity Focus E-Mail for me when he says "It's hard to fight a war when the enemy is your own family" after he realizes that his 16-year-old daughter Caroline is graduating from recreational drug use to habitual abuse &ndash...

In 1937, with the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act, the United States effectively banned recreational and medicinal use of marijuana. Many nations followed suit and, in 1961, through the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, fifty-four nations agreed to \"adopt such measures as may be ...

-1914 marked the year that the States first began to strictly prohibit substance use. - 1915 to 1937: Early state laws. In this time period, there was no strict tax of prohibition on marijuana. Fear of Mexicans: a large immigration of Mexicans to the southwest prompted white officials to questio...

Marijuana is the most heavily used illegal drug in the United States. One hundred million Americans have admitted to trying marijuana, with twenty-five million admitting to having used marijuana in the past year, making it the second most used recreational or mood altering drug. One of marijuana&apo...

When looking retrospectively at the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it is easy to recognize the numerous inventions that helped shape mankind into its present form. Inventions like electricity, the assembly line, cars and trains, the telephone and so on. We see the influence that these inve...

Drug Legalization and ReaganMan, as a creature, is inherently bored. Since the dawn of time, it has been the natural instinct of man to find alternative methods to enhance his being. The many means by which man has turned to include sex, gambling, and the consumption of substances beyond the require...

What does a recovering drug addict, a boy who accepts a dare, and a man who does not fight back have in common? Courage. The dictionary defines courage as "the quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., with firmness and without fear" or to "...