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-Drug Laws of The Netherlands – Is a Permissive Legal System Better than a Restrictive One in the Case of Drugs? Introduction The Netherlands is one of the most highly developed countries in the world. It is an international, well-integrated country with policies that are among the world’s most liberal. In fact, The Netherlands has perhaps the most liberal view on drug use than any other country and has even gone to the extreme of extraordinarily relaxing its laws regarding ‘soft’ drugs. However
Today's Drug Laws Today?s drug laws seem to do more harm than good. The so-called drug war hasn?t seemed to be as effective as it was intended to be. Its original intent lies in its name, to attack the drug problem in America. Nixon started the war on drugs in the late sixties to stop drug abuse at the source, the distributors. Another intention for the war on drugs was to show individuals taking part in this illegal activity that their participation would cause serious consequences. The government
Drug laws are laws that are in place to monitor the use, sell and possession of drugs. Many drug users and legal sellers of drugs have a tendency to misuse and get into illegal situations The head of the United States believes that everyone who is educated, skilled with a trade and has determination should be able to compete with anyone in the world for a job or career. But, many Americans cannot compete or even be a contingent because of the dependency and abuse of drugs. The cost to the nations
“[The war on drugs] has created a multibillion-dollar black market, enriched organized crime groups and promoted the corruption of government officials throughout the world,” noted Eric Schlosser in his essay, “A People’s Democratic Platform”, which presents a case for decriminalizing controlled substances. Government policies regarding drugs are more focused towards illegalization rather than revitalization. Schlosser identifies a few of the crippling side effects of the current drug policy put in
Racial Discrimination: Drug Laws and Sentence Disparities The crime this essay will be on is racial injustice. The main point I want to focus on is how drugs laws came into effect because of certain races. With specific races being linked to different drugs, laws also came into effect. The movie “The House I live In” by Eugene Jarecki, was my inspiration for this essay. It depicted racial discrimination, and how certain drugs over time became associated with certain races. Many drugs that are illegal
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Governor Nelson R. Rockefeller first proposed to create new drug laws that would help fight the current war on drugs that was taking over New York City. Rockefeller proposed to sentence anyone who committed a level A-1 felony, which is the highest level, would be sentence to minimum 15 years to life in prison. There was much controversy on these laws. Some were happy that a stand was finally being made; they wanted the streets to be cleaned of drugs. Others saw it as a racism tactic, to put all African
One fallacy committed in Michael Huemer’s article “The Drug Laws Don’t Work” is when he states that “most would consider legal sanctions for smoking, alcohol consumption, and overeating to be taking things too far”. This is a fallacy because it ignores the fact that there are in fact legal sanctions on smoking and the consumption of alcohol (such as age restrictions, license to sell, bans against indoor/public smoking, drunk driving laws etc.) in order to further his point, which is that smoking
Any type of drug should be classified as a schedule I drugs or as another scheduled substance. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 was signed by Richard Nixon and it defines schedule I drugs to have a high potential for abuse. There is no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S. for marijuana. There is a lack of accepted safety for the use of the drug under medical supervision. Marijuana should be classified as a schedule I drug. I will tell you why by using three different fallacies
The war on drugs began with good intentions, but it is becoming clear that this battle is a failure. Not only do drug laws violate American’s freedoms, but they further complicate the lives of drug users. These laws have inadvertently been responsible for the deaths of thousands through bad drug deals and dirty drugs, which leads one to ask the question, “Is this a war on drugs or a war on drug users?” Body bags and HIV are becoming the most widely known side effects of drug prohibition. Contrary
athletes to perform and surpass his or her opponents. When faced with a decision to participate in something that may be classified as technically within the law and could result in an enhanced physical performance, the dilemma posed for such athletes is whether the risk of failure in his or her performance would outweigh the risk of being drug tested and found ineligible to compete. This paper will examine the athlete’s ethical dilemma according to my Christian worldview. Ethical Dilemma
rise in drug taking within the sporting community. As stated in an article by Australian Ethical Knowledge-based journalist The Conversation ‘In short, the commercialization of sport – by business, government and sports administrators - has corrupted the values of sport and removed the moral basis for integrity in sport.’ The fundamental ethos of sporting competition is the rivalry between highly skilled
Steroids, Bodybuilding, and The Law. 1999-2000 Flax, Ellan. "Steroids: Few Demanding That High-School Athletes 'Just say no.'" Education Weekly.12 Oct. 1988. pp 1+ Iole, Kevin. "Steroid Use Persists Despite Damning Truth." Las Vegas Review- Journal/Sun. 28 April 1991. pp. 1E+ James, Michael. "Bulk Up, Up, and Away Go All Your Dreams. Even the Most Muscular Athlete Can't Win From a Hospital Bed." High School Sports. Feb. 1989. pp. 18-22 Lukas, Scott E. The Drug Library: Steroids. Springfield:
Through researching the current trend toward medicating students in order for the to better fit into the school system. I found the following sources that give information about the number of students given drugs to help them concentrate and do better in school. College students take ADHD drugs for better performance. Teens taking ADHD medicine to make better grades and ADHD medication to help kids better perform in school. “I have ADHD, and have been taking medication for a long time. I have to
Study Drugs: A Student's New Best Friend? Many people who want to lose weight wish there was a “magic pill” that would eliminate the process of dieting and exercising. Those looking for fun, have the “love pill” commonly known as ecstasy. In an age where everything comes to us so easily, where feelings don’t have to be felt but chemically induced instead, one might address a common problem college students face hoping to find a simple solution. Stuck in the library with a term paper due the
because fentanyl is an opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, there is an increasing number of overdoses and deaths of people that are using the drug illicitly by producing inexpensive fentanyl mixed with illegal drugs like heroine and fentanyls. In the industry of medicine, the sudden arrival of counterfeit prescription drugs containing fentanyls results in an increase in overdoses, deaths, opiate-dependent individuals, and profit to potential traffickers that exploit high consumer
of DMT, and therefore may be highly uninformed of the drug, if they know anything about it at all. Also, due to it being illegal, it is very hard for research to be done on the drug. DMT is no ‘party drug’; it is absolutely not to be used simply for the purpose of ‘tripping out’. It is to be used for a spiritual experience, to become one with the universe, and truly find yourself. Dimethyltriptamine, better known as DMT, is the most common drug in existence, seeing as how the human brain produces
Reflection of the Practice and Prescribing of a Nurse Practitioner The laws and regulations of the practice and prescribing privileges of Advanced Practice Register Nurse Practitioner (APRN) in North Carolina is jointly regulated by North Carolina Board of Nursing and North Carolina Board of Medicine (NC Board of Nursing, 2016). These privileges can only be granted under a collaborative practice agreement (CPA) with a licensed physician. The CPA provides ongoing supervision and collaboration between
Does Participating In Sports Really Keep Athletes Out Of Trouble? (In today’s society) We tend to put professional athletes on a pedestal. We are captivated by their words and we find ourselves so wrapped up in their, “accomplishments” that we are more or less blinded by the roles they play during the game, that we fail to get to know their true character when they are off the field, court, or rink. Whether it is apparent to individuals or not, the truth is that professional athletes do get themselves