Drugs have been around for thousands of years but their reasons for being used has changed. Drugs were originally intended for medical uses. In ancient Egypt, physicians prescribed tannic acid to treat burns. The early Chinese and Greek pharmacies included opium used as a pain- killer, while Hindus used cannabis and henbane plants as an esthetic. With the advances in technology drugs have become more helpful yet more deadly. Since drugs have become easier to get they have also become more popular
Drugs Should NOT be Legal Everyone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical and emotional health problems that drug abuse causes. Concern about the abuse of drugs is so widespread that recent polls indicate it to be one of the most serious problems in today's world, threatening the security and freedom of whole nations. Politicians, health experts and much of the general public feel that no issue is more important than drug abuse. America's other pressing social
Should Drugs Be Decriminalized? Recreational drug use has been controversial for years. Government has deemed the use of certain drugs to be dangerous, addictive, costly, and fatal. Governmental agencies have passed laws to make drugs illegal and then have focused a great deal of attention and money trying to prohibit the use of these drugs, and many people support these sanctions because they view the illegality of drugs to be the main protection against the destruction of our society (Trebach
Drug addiction is a chronic which always the brain disease is relapsed that leads to the seeking of compulsive drugs (NIH 2012). Nowadays, drug abuse still is a serious issue for a long time although the government tries to control the drugs by rigorous imprisonment and better education program. Some people cannot understand that why and how people can be a drug addicted person. And the drug users are regarded as the lack of moral principles or willpower (National Institute on Drug Abuse 2012). People
Nida Uddin ECON Drugs Should NOT be Legalized It is important to be informed of what we are defending, and in this case it is to not legalize drugs. One may ask, what are drugs? Drugs are chemicals, that may affect your body in many different ways, whether it be good or bad. However, most of the time, it 's not always a positive outcome. Some drugs even leave lifetime damage to your brain and body. Although, there are many different ways to take drugs, some of the most common ways are;
Should Recreational Drugs be Legally Decreased? Everyone knows that the use of recreational drugs is higher than ever right now. Underage teens, alcoholics, and drug addicts, are increasing rapidly as years go by. The increasing numbers of people is a serious problem, but the effects and the results of using it is much more problematic. It’s no secret that drugs can completely change a person’s state of consciousness, whether it’s hyperactivity, pain relief, hallucination, and more. Since recreational
controversy about students being drug tested at school. Schools should drug test students in order to prove that students are doing illegal drugs. There has been many conflicts and very bad results of students using drugs. In that case schools have the right to drug test a student who they think is using illegal drugs. Schools are drug testing students to prove their doing illegal drugs. Fifty percent of test givers say that they used illicit drugs at least once ("Drug Testing"). Even people who give
Supreme ruled that drug testing for high school athletes was constitutional. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, over 28.4% of eighth, tenth, and twelfth grader have been using drugs in 2013 (NoBullying.com). In the United States, high schools should conduct mandatory, random drug tests among their student athletes since the number of athletes using drugs has doubled within the past year. In the first place, the use of drugs while playing in competitive sports should not be allowed because
The war on drugs has been heavily criticized over the years due to its incompetence in reducing drug use. This is probably due to the fact that we have never fought the “war on drugs as we have fought other adversaries”, as Charles B. Rangel writes in “Why Drug Legalization Should Be Opposed”(288). However, in “Should Drugs Be Legalized?”, William J. Bennett contends that “every civilized society has found it necessary to exert some form of control over mind-altering substances”, which justifies
don’t have any effects: drugs. People who don’t use recreational drugs don’t do so because of the health risks; people who do use drugs would whether or not they are legal. The fact that they are illegal makes little difference. Nevertheless, $15,000,000,000 goes directly into drug prohibition every year, and has very little effect. Very much money is spent to pay police narcotics officers, fund the D.E.A., and house drug-offenders in prison. The prisons are full of drug-related criminals, and violent
is an ongoing debate over whether or not Welfare recipients should be drug tested to receive the benefits. The lines of reasoning from both sides of this argument have unambiguous points. Those who oppose the idea of drug testing say that it is unconstitutional, and violates the Fourth Amendment. Furthermore, they claim that this law stereotypes and discriminates against the poor , implying that because they are poor, they must be drug addicts. However, individuals that support the law, express
A largely debated topic in today's society is whether or not psychedelic drugs should be legalized for medicinal purposes and if they should, how this legalization would affect the communities in which they’re being prominently medicinally used. Although many scientists have argued that psychedelics pose a mental health risk, closer examination shows that communities would have a significantly lower depression rate if certain psychedelics were legalized. Now to fully understand how psychedelics could
Most of know what drug traffickers are and what they do. But have we ever asked ourselves if they are good or bad? There are some people that accept the drug trafficking lifestyle. They see it as something normal. Those people are very wrong, drug traffickers should be put in jail because they bring violence, death, and corruption to society. There are some people that want the drug traffickers free. They like that they help people and their towns but only if they like them. Even famous people have
There are so many things that can make high school a good experience but there’s one specific bad thing that stands out to me and that is random drug testing. Every so often at school, there are days when students are randomly selected to take a drug test. In order to take this drug test the school has to have consent from co-signed by the custodial parent/legal guardian. If the students refuse or do not turn in the form the student is not allowed to participate in any school activity or park on
with proposition that drugs should be legalised. Accepting this act would be the same like taking money from people for killing them. We don‘t need legalisation, we need to fight against it, try to save people who are standing on the edge of a precipice, not to push them from it. Of course, there are many people who would agree with this proposition, but most of them are drug users or spreaders. Supporters of this act say that legalised drugs would reduce criminality as drug addicts are forced to
Should athletes be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs? The use of performance enhancing drugs has been around since the beginning of organized sports and has been the cause of many debates. Athletes are always searching for ways to gain a competitive advantage over their opponents. In our opinion, the use of performance enhancing drugs should not be allowed in sport because of athlete’s role model status, potential health risks, and unfair physical advantages. Whether athletes like it or
war on drugs deals with every level of society. Every year, the U.S. government spends large amounts of money to control drug use and to enforce laws enacted to protect society from the dangers of certain drugs. Some argue that the fight against drugs is not needed and that society has already lost the war on drugs and the only way to remedy the problem to end most of the fighting altogether is by decriminalizing the use of marijuana. William Buckley says, "Pot is harmful, but people should not
Drugs, the most common threat in our daily life. Substances that make huge damage to the human body and drag people to complete ruin. A topic that appears everyday in the news, becoming more normal and “chill” to talk about. While in high school one out of five teens tries drugs, leaving the ones that don’t try them labeled as “losers”. Every teen is vulnerable to take drugs in high school due to its reachable Access. So should school athletes be drugs tested? Yes. Yes they absolutely do. The reason
children are getting arrested for selling and taking drugs? This is why students should be drug tested! If students knew that they would be tested any time, then they wouldn't do drugs due to fear that adults might find out. Today, more and more students in high school, middle school, and unfortunately in elementary school are taking drugs. These days, students are getting addicted and overdosing on drugs, selling drugs, and dying from drugs. There was a girl at the age of 15 that lived in Orange
Performance Enhancing Drugs Should Be Banned For Athletes The use of Performance Enhancing Drugs(PED) has a major impact on athletes negatively and cause many problems in sports and competitions. These PEDs should be banned for athletes and competitors on any level because they are, unhealthy and harmful to the body, give users an edge over competitors, and it diminishes the true sportsmanship of the game itself. The illegal use of Performance Enhancing Drugs lead to many unhealthy and potentionaly