.... keeping young adults from drinking, was to uniform the states’ drinking ages. For a long while, since the passing of , there has been a controversy over whether or not the issue of drinking age should have been left up to the state governments instead of the federal government. “The federal government has been suspected of threatening to stop federal funding for the states highway systems if they did not comply with the proposed uniformed drinking age.� Many feel that as a result of this the states were pressured into their decision of raising the age limit. laws, in some ways, prevent young adults from participating in some so .....

.... killing. Since capitol punishment is within the law it is not murder. Also if executions is murder then prison is kidnapping and charging taxes is extortion. There is a difference between crime and punishment. Are police officers wrong for speeding to enforce the speeding laws? No. They also say that we should value all human life. Even the most despicable. It is because we value human life so much that we put such a terrible consequence for taking it. One argument states that the death penalty does not deter people from murdering. To abolish capital punishment on this basis would be way off base. You would also have to .....

.... People usually smoke marijuana in cigarettes or pipes, but it also can be mixed with food and beverages. Short-term effects of marijuana include both psychological and physical reactions. These reactions usually last for three to five hours after a person has smoked marijuana. The psychological reaction, known as a high consists of changes in the users feelings and thoughts. Such changes are caused mainly by THC. The effects of a marijuana high vary from person to person and from one time to another in the same individual. In most cases, the high consists of a dreamy, relaxed state in which users seem more aware of their senses and feel th .....

.... the present day drug war in America one should look at the history of the drug war. The first anti narcotic law ever passed in the United States was the San Francisco opium ordinance of 1875 (Gray, 46). Now that the railroads were finish the Chinamen, who had come to America to build the railroads, were a glut on the labor market so in a effort to remove these worker from the work force this ordnance was passed. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was another law that was inacted for the same proposes. The first federal drug control law passed was the District of Columbia Pharmacy Act. This act regulated narcotics. Cocaine based pr .....

.... risk. They risk their health and their lives. Since they are breaking laws they also but themselves at the risk of getting arrested. They risk their freedom and their future all for drugs. Each year drug use is the cause of a large number of accidents at home in the office and on the road. Everybody pays the price of drug abuse: more cops and prisons more hospitols and treatment centers and many lives lost. But drug users hurt themselves more than anybody because they are supporting violent crimes in the drug world. Just by using drugs they become part of that drug world. They are already commiting acrime. But the relationship between dr .....

.... The workers are described as predominantly young women from China, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Thailand, that often work twelve hours a day and seven days a week. They sometimes don't receive pay if they fall behind on their quotas. These workers often live seven to a room in barracks that are surrounded by inward-facing barbed wire. The lawsuits maintain that some companies forced pregnant women to have abortions to maintain production levels. The lawsuits also contend that the foremen of the factories often limit bathroom breaks, and the exits in the buildings are often locked, which create fire hazzards. These discoveries we .....

.... seem to want to experiment more with designer or new age drugs. The reason that there is so much media hype about the drug abuse amongst the poor is because the rich have the political power to cover it up, the poor don't. Crack is cocaine mixed with baking soda and cooked in to rock form 6. Even though crack and cocaine are the same drug (just in different forms) the courts give out stiffer sentences for crack offenders than powder cocaine offenders 7. According to federal law if a person is caught with five grams of crack they get a mandatory five year sentence 8. To get a five year sentence for trafficking powder cocaine a pers .....

.... were doing it illegally. The 21st amendment repealed prohibition and alcohol taxes were increased. The same thing should happen with drugs. Marijuana should be taxed heavily to increase our revenue. Marijuana and other drugs would be made by the same people who make aspirin so the quality would be assured, containing no poisons or adulterants. Sterile hypodermic needles will be readily available at corner drug stores. These could be taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead o .....

.... v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the Supreme Court decided, with efficient controls, the death penalty could be used constitutionally. Yet, even with these various controls, the system does not effectively eliminate racial bias. According to Professor Steven Goldstein of Florida State University, "There are so many discretionary stages: whether the prosecutor decides to seek the death penalty, whether the jury recommends it, whether the judge gives it" (As cited in Smolowe, 1991, 68). It is in these discretionary stages that racial biases can infect the system of dealing out death sentences. Smolowe (1991) shows this infection by giving .....

.... referred to them as "Negro Cocaine Fiends" or "Cocainized Niggers". There is little evidence that this actually happened. The Harrison Act had started as a licensing law which required sellers to obtain a license if they were going to handle opiates or cocaine. The law contains a provision that nothing in the law would prohibit doctors from prescribing these drugs in the legitimate practice of medicine. The people who wrote the Harrison Act and Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, agreed that a prohibition on what people could put into their bod .....