Making Matters Worse "Drug abuse is a serious problem, both for individual citizens and society at large, but the 'war on drugs' has made matters worse." -Ethan A. Nadelmann The prohibitionist approach to the war on drugs, just like the temperance movement of th...

Drugs In America By Robert Emmet Long. The war on drugs is I believe the longest war in the history of mankind. I also think it is one of the most important topics today. I personally do not see an end that is going to come anytime soon because there is no way that we can stop the use of it. ...

It is obvious that illegal drugs have become a major cause for concern in North America. It is becoming increasingly difficult to fight the war on drugs since many substances are readily available to anyone who can afford them. According to the PFDA, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, the average...

Fewer Coloradans have signed up for the state's medical-marijuana program than expected but officials say the pace may increase in coming months. Ninety-nine Coloradans are legally smoking marijuana with their doctor's approval under the state's 7-month-old Medical Marijuana Registry program. The f...

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 ...

Drugs Should Not be Legalized The question of whether to legalize drugs or not is A Very controversial and important issue. Drugs affect so many areas of society. Several groups have formed and spoken out regarding their position. After learning about the issues regarding both sid...

Legalization of Drugs. (PRO) "There is much hysteria about drugs and drug use in this country and much misinformation. It is time we got rid of both, put drugs and drug abuse in their proper perspective and go on with our lives." Richard Lawrence Miller, The case for Legalizing Drugs. I coul...

Chris SearlsPublic PolicyDrug ProhibitionUnder the United States Constitution the federal government is charged with the responsibilities to protect our individual, as well as collective, rights to life and liberty. Often times this charge leads the various branches of the federal government to cre...

  Drugs are a major influential force in our country today. The problem has gotten so out of handthat many options are being considered to control it or even solve it. Ending the drug war seemsto be a bit impossible. The war on drugs seems to be accomplishing a lot but this is not true.Different op...

This is Your Brain on PSAsAs a teen in today's America, I am bombarded everyday with drugs. Whether it's the crazy guy on the corner, a blockbuster movie, hanging out with my friends, or sitting around watching TV, drugs are everywhere. In response to this, the government and media have gone to gre...

As we all know the government has some sort of control over the people living in the United States and play a role in our every day lives. They give us rules to live by even though we are guaranteed our freedom in the Declaration of Independence. These rules we are expected to live by are said to...

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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...

Position Paper The New Science: Prosperity or Plague? As humanity approaches the new millennium, we are forced to make decisions regarding the future of our race. Our past history has shown us how far we have come and how much we have relied on technology. Will we continue to depen...

Why Not Pot? Marijuana is one of the most widely used illegal drugs in the country today. The amount of people that smoke pot is on the rise and not showing any signs of slowing down. The government is spending billions of dollars trying to stop society from smoking marijuana yet is having no ...

Escape from Reality The request for legalizing drugs has entered the mainstream of public debates in recent years, mostly focusing on marijuana. Some countries around the world have allowed laws, not so much to abolish, as to bend the use of drugs. Countries such as the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, P...

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Despite the negative portrayal in mainstream media, justifications expressed by counterculture activists for further investigation, education and experimentation under government control of LSD are rational and valid arguments. LSD has roots going as far back as the 1960's, and even earlier if ...

If you are a hopeless patient and fighting severe pain due to illness, you would probably favor using marijuana for pain relief. Legalizing the medical marijuana is one of the most controversial issues in today\'s society. Marijuana or cannabis is widely used around the world. It causes hallucina...

-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...

In human society controlled substances have always had a significant presence in social situations. From the dawn of human civilization in Central Africa about twenty-five thousand years ago, drugs have been a part of human culture. In almost every past civilization there is evidence of drug use in ...

Why Should the Government Make Marijuana Legal? I think there is a large population of people in the United States who feel the government of this country has made a huge mistake in the war on drugs. Instead of focusing in on the deadly, harsh drugs, the government has decided that the harmless...

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Eric Schlosser's 1994 article "Reefer Madness" outlines the history and ideology behind marijuana criminalization laws. The author attempts to point out the flaws in America's anti-drug policies by criticizing heavy- handed sentencing and the lack of scientific evidence against the dangers ...