Medical Marijuana and Civil Liberties Research Project Part II Literature Review
As the specter of Reagan's poorly planned and disastrously waged War on Drugs continues to haunt the American social landscape, an increasing number of ordinary citizen Continue Reading...
Marijuana
Medical Marijuana:
The Interplay between State and Federal Law
History of Criminalization
The Current War on Drugs
Political Issues
The legal status of medical marijuana in the United States is something of a paradox. On one hand, fed Continue Reading...
An analogy can easily be made to the difference between purchasing a basil plant for $6 versus buying individual sprigs of basil at the grocery store for $2 each.
Medical marijuana aside, serious social, philosophical, and political problems are as Continue Reading...
Introduction
Medical marijuana has increasingly been in the news as a growing number of states throughout the U.S. have passed measures or at least put on the ballot an initiative to legalize either medicinal or recreational marijuana usage. T Continue Reading...
Since 1998, medical authorities including the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences have documented marijuana's unique ability to relieve both intractable pain and nausea."
We're in the Money
The prohib Continue Reading...
There is much more to the issue and how it is addressed than that (Seamon, 2007). These states are:
Alaska
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Rhode Island
Vermont
Washington (Seamon, 200 Continue Reading...
Mandatory Sentencing
Public policy, crime, and criminal justice
Mandatory Sentencing: Case Study Critique
The prime grounds of mandatory sentencing laws are utilitarian. The laws come with long prison sentences for recidivists, drug dealers and is Continue Reading...
Canada boasts one of the highest cannabis usage rates in the world in spite of prohibition (Fischer, Kuganesan, & Room, 2015). Cannabis is also the most widely used illegal drug in the country by a wide margin (Hajidazeh, 2016). The complete decr Continue Reading...
This act enlarged the labels on the cigarettes, and required that the labels on cigarettes and cigarette ads say things like,."..Cause lung cancer...may complicate pregnancy...quitting smoking now greatly reduces hazards to your health... may result Continue Reading...
As far back as 1959, the United Nations recognized the logic and benefits of decriminalizing prostitution, and organizations supporting this decriminalization include the "American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization of Women, and vario Continue Reading...
Mexico faces an array of drug-related problems ranging from production and transshipment of illicit drugs to corruption, violence, and increased internal drug abuse. Powerful and well-organized Mexican organizations control drug production and traff Continue Reading...
"As a case in point we may take the known fact of the prevalence of reefer and dope addiction in Negro areas. This is essentially explained in terms of poverty, slum living, and broken families, yet it would be easy to show the lack of drug addicti Continue Reading...
Sources of U.S. LawIntroductionToday, most Americans are rightfully proud of the fact that the United States is a land of laws, but many may not realize the multiple sources of the laws that routinely affect their daily lives (Lupu, 2013). To help ad Continue Reading...