Drug laws are a big part of society and are constantly evolving within the government. There is a constant debate about whether drug laws should be more restrictive or less restrictive. More restrictive drug laws can create more dangerous roles in society because of the government standards. While less restrictive drug laws can also create danger within society due to government standards and show how restrictive laws do not work. Drug laws should remain less restrictive because the courts would
to conflict with the law with currently marijuana being a hot topic. While medical practitioners see it as medical marijuana, in the eyes of the law it is still illegal in many states. According to FindLaw (2012), in medical practice, medical marijuana is described as the use, possession and cultivation for medical purposes. In this case it is recommended for terminally ill patients suffering from chronic pain and symptoms of terminal ailments. However, in the eyes of the law, marijuana is classified
easier to understand. Pregnant women considering their options should be entitled to have accurate information about their risk factors (Raymond & Grimes, 2012). They found that 10.4 deaths occur per 100,000 live births and 0.6 deaths occurred per 100,000 abortions. All together their results conclude that according to national data sets, legal abortion in the United States remains much safe than
Federal and State laws prohibit convicted felons, the mentally ill also drug and alcohol addicted persons from legally obtaining firearms. I could only venture to say how many laws pertaining to firearms there are in the United States, some say between six hundred to twenty-two thousand laws nationwide. Do we need more laws governing the acquisition and possession of firearms? I say NO! There are so many laws on the books presently, enforcement of the laws which remain in place should be the priority
the hotel staff takes the beer to the glasses by long plastic hoses a dreadful sight to those unused to it (lawcom.govt.nz) As these excerpts tell us, New Zeeland has long had a love-affair with alcohol. The 6.00 clock closing of bars was the first law to hit NZ bars in the early 1900s on the grounds that drinking impacted the domestic harmony. This was soon followed by prohibition of hiring new barmaids since it was feared that attractive barmaids enticed men to drink (Paul, 2006)). Both bans were
Based on biological research, statistics of drug use amongst children and youth and the health effects on regular users of marijuana, this paper will argue that marijuana should remain illegal in the United States for recreational use. Arguments for the legalization of marijuana and arguments against the legalization of the drug will be discussed throughout the paper. It will address the biological effects of the drug on the human body, the current laws in place and the effects it has on children
having mainstream medicines to treat diseases and chronic pain, Americans across the U.S. still suffer and are often crippled by their affliction. It makes sense to legalize cannabis because it is the most natural, least harmful, and least addictive drug for therapeutic treatment. Grinspoon and Bakalar have claimed that “the simplest way to enable patients to use cannabis
it was most likely going to result in a death sentence(NACM, 2017). Unlike in modern criminal court, the accused was guilty until proven innocent. The earlier criminal courts followed numerous laws that displayed discrimination until centuries later, philosophers and policy maker, began to change the laws to try to assure all citizens’ rights were protected. Criminal courts are made to uphold the rights of citizens to have a fair trial when convicted of crime. Criminal courts are the center of establishing
produce another unit or for taking further action in the economy. The marginal social cost of legalizing this drug will largely be determined by whether consumption experiences an increase after the marijuana has been legalized. This increase probably would be minimal or nonexistent, and if the theory remains true the marginal social cost would not be drastic since consumptions relatively remains constant. But marginal social cost brings about the issue of the effect of marijuana on
Abortion Laws and Ethical Considerations Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus from the uterus before it can survive on its own outside the womb. Social workers may find themselves in the position of helping their clients explore abortion as one possibility open to them. The concept of abortion inevitably elicits strong feelings and emotions of positive and negative (Zastrow & Kirist-Ashman, 2016). In June 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states have extensive