Persuasive Speech Outline On Drugs

When most people hear the word “prohibition” it brings forth images of speakeasies, bootleggers, and rum-runners of the American alcohol prohibition of the early 1900s. Most people are unaware that there is a different type of prohibition happening in America right now with recreational use of marijuana. While there are differences between the two prohibitions, there are also a few similarities. Citizens should vote to legalize retail marijuana because states could use the revenue on taxes for beneficial public programs, marijuana would be better regulated, and legalization could help take down the marijuana smuggling business.

The topic of legalizing recreational marijuana in the United States has been a very controversial one. States such as Colorado and Washington have gone on the offensive and have legalized recreational marijuana and have enjoyed the high revenues brought in from cannabis sale. On the other hand other states have kept low profiles because they are wary of the possible negative outcomes of legalizing recreational marijuana and are using the states of Colorado and Washington as guinea pigs to see what their next course of action on this controversial topic should be. This is not only a highly debated topic among politicians, but also by the people. According to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center 52% of Americans

Attention getter: 41 people die everyday in America due to heroin overdose. According to the national institute on drug abuse heroin usage have risen from 2002 to 2016 from around 404k users to 948k users. The overdoses have blow up from two thousand deaths in 2002 to 15 thousand deaths in 2016. That means about 1.6% of heroin users die to overdoses a year.

3. Ways for physiciaisn patients and pharamasists to all play a role in identidying and preventing prescription drug abuse.

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans use prescribed drugs, for several reasons, everyday. Prescription drugs have become a huge problem to America's health care system due to their exponentially rising price - so America must ask ourselves why prescribed drugs are so expensive, how these prices affect us, and how we can fix these dangerously high prices.

On January 1st the states of Colorado and Washington officially began the regulation of legal marijuana sales. Thousands of people from all over the country including tourists from Wisconsin, Ohio, Chicago, and even Georgia lined up out front of dispensaries to make a purchase. Recreational marijuana is being regulated and monitored like alcohol; you must be at least 21 years old to make a purchase. The drug, which is controversial in many states’ legislations, is currently legal for medical use in 20 states, but Colorado and Washington were the first to approve of recreational use (Healy). The geographical concepts involved in the legalization of marijuana include migration, movement and flow, and private/public space.

Would you believe me if I tell you that the number of deaths related to prescription drugs abuse has surpassed the number of deaths related to car accidents? In 2009, according to statistics from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug abuses accounted for at least 37,485 of deaths in America, doubling the number in the last decade. While most of these deaths are due to the abuse of opioid painkillers, excessive use of antidepressants and antibiotics have also led to many problems. Furthermore, overprescribing by doctors have contributed a huge part in promoting these deaths.

Recreational and Medical Marijuana is Completely legal there, however, there are some laws you need to abide by if you choose to partake in this Medicinal practice. When Colorado legalized this plant a whopping $4.6 billion was spent on marijuana solely from out of state tourists. It’s quite the same with Washington, Business Insider ranked Washington one of the fastest growing economies in the U.S, as well as collecting more than $210 million in excise taxes for 2015. The potency in the marijuana provided in each state is said to vary upon where and who grows it, but it is also said that each state has some of the highest quality legal marijuana in the

Richard Nixon has declared war on drugs in 1971. He announced to the Americans that America’s public enemy number one is drug abuse. Drug users are everywhere from their own homes, schools, communities, courts, jails, hospitals and prisons. Those who use drugs have nothing to good gain, it only causes problems. Children are neglected or abused, innocent civilians are robbed or even killed for money to buy and obtain drugs. Most eventually end up imprisoned for few years to live.

On 13 June 2016 I was at my home of residence when I punched a door after my girlfriend Melissa and I had an argument about moving and me being deployed. Over the past few months I have had quite a few new stressors introduced into my life and haven’t been having the best time copping with them. It all started back in October when I was brought into a drug investigation and was unsure of the outcome due to them believing I was involved in the events taking place. A month or so went by and then a friend of my Michael West was discharged from the U.S Air Force for substance abuse, and then I was told by Jordan Bell that he was now being investigated and that my name was once again brought up in the situation by someone involved, he is now out

Today, we are launching a campaign called Against the Opioids. I am seeking your help, because the addicts of our community are not seeking help. We want to put an end to opioid crises, and to do this, we need everyone to be mindful of the problem at hand. This is the first campaign about opioids at the UN. We want to try to educate as many people as possible to become advocates for change in our community. And, we don’t just want to learn about it thentake no action. We want to make sure that a change is seen.

Washington and Colorado were the first two states in America that allowed the sale of marijuana to its residents over the age of 21. According to Bushan, "Both states found previous marijuana regulatory laws to be an inefficient use of law enforcement resources that could be better utilized by targeting violent crimes instead" (192). This means that these states have decided that using resources on relatively minor marijuana-related offenses could be put to better use. So far, legalization seems to be working in the states favors. According to drugpolicy.org, the rate of low-level offenses have lowered while tax revenue increased. Since 2012, Oregon, California, Nevada, Alaska, Maine, and Massachusetts have also legalized recreational

Within the last couple of years, the statewide governments of Colorado and Washington have made strides in changing decade old policies that have place many men and women into federal prisons over petty marijuana charges. In 2014, retail stores opened in both Washington and Colorado, allowing anyone over the age of 21 could purchase marijuana in a vast amount of forms varying from buds, seeds, drinks, and even edibles amongst many more options. This change in the previous policy has shown many benefits, not only to the medical aspect of the dilemma, but also improvements to the economy in creating different opportunities for different retailers and also growers of the plant.

The main goal pursued by the legalization policies is to convert marijuana in a tradable commodity, under similar conditions and treatment given to alcohol and tobacco. In this sense, the policy approach is mainly directed to market development. The full legalization of cannabis in Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska (as well as the district of Columbia), is a recent phenomenon that started in 2012. In all cases the process was triggered by ballot system, following the path inaugurated by California in 1996 where the medical use of cannabis was approved (Anderson and Rees, 2014). However, in some states like Oregon and Alaska, the process have started earlier with two previous failed attempts, where the same proposition was defeated by ballot system.

Even though people need their prescriptions, the abuse of them is getting out of control and we need to find a way to regulate it better,because it can destroy a family, cause some to become addicted, or even kill them. Prescription drugs are no joke, they can be worse than illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine, and even heroin. The only difference is a doctor can prescribe these types of drugs. The problem we run into with prescription drugs is there is not enough being done to keep the person from becoming addicted or them selling to others. In 2007 2.5 million Americans abused just painkillers (Drug free world). That is not even including the other two types. Now it is starting to affect teens, one out of every ten teenagers admit to abusing a prescribed drug(Drug-free world).