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    relationships, oppressive government, and a country controlled by debt. Also, how drugs can control people to do things they would never do if they weren't being controlled. Being controlled will lead us as a people to a dreadful future. People are always seeing abusive or

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    Colorado, marijuana is still an illegal substance under the federal statute, known as the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 which explicitly prohibits any activities associated with marijuana. Additionally, the law implements three drug treaties for controlling drugs of which the US is part of the treaty. Currently, marijuana is exclusively limited for medical research and scientific purposes. In the past few years, there has been intense debate regarding legalization of marijuana and

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    solutions in resolving the cost reduction strategies for prescription drugs, it’s important to consider the short-term solution rather than the long-term. In long-term problem solving strategic plan like the change in the overall U.S health system, the process of transforming the highly dominated private health financing system to government funding and controlling system takes years, even decade. To reduce the price of prescription drugs in the United States, this paper (part III) has presented recommendations

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    book called  Brave New World, in which “controllers” in the book could easily manipulate and control the ignorance of people by doing drugs “soma” and being conditioned to think all is well, fine, and dandy. I think the controllers do this is to hide everyone from the reality everything was setup perfect for them and nothing could go wrong. The government used the drug “soma” as a way to make everyone high and belligerent to the point that the would agree to anything that the world state wanted. Taking

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    Cooper, Hannah LF. “War On Drugs Policing and Police Brutality.” Substance Use & Misuse 50. 8/9 (2015): 1188-1194. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. Hannah article provide details about how the War on drugs controlling activity has been unsuccessful to diminish domestic road level drug activities. In addition, the main reason drug activity still has not decrease is because the drug price still has been low like before and the drug product has been available everywhere in the market. In addition, this paper mainly

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    I can agree that the definition of drugs as ‘legal’ or ‘illegal’ during the period between World War II and the Cold War have been determined to ensure the global dominance of several private American pharmaceutical companies, and not by public health and safety concerns, I must add a very critical aspect to this statement. Not only did American corporations who manufactured drugs as their stock trade dominate the global drug market, the United States government was also ensured global economic and

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    private life are government run. Brave New World and 1984 were both novels composed by men who had encountered war on the amazing size of the twentieth century. Baffled and frightened by what they found in the public arena, both creators delivered an intense parody and a disturbing vision of conceivable future outcomes. In spite of the fact that the two books are altogether different, they both address a considerable amount of the same issues, but in differentiating ways. By controlling the information

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    Hallucinogen Of Soma

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    by some people at the top of a World State. It acknowledges government control which then leads to a failure in society. It is a world where everything is being observed, under control and synthetic. Drugs & alcohol and power were some themes in this book. Not only were drugs common, but they were also distributed by the government. The drug that is used throughout the book is called Soma. A hallucinogen described as the “perfect drug”. It is used for escaping moments of dissatisfaction with the

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    “Strumpet! Strumpet!” is what the people in Brave New World would say to the real world’s society because of with the government has told them. Totalitarian government in this society of Brave New World is a way to control the masses to become just a mass of bodies to work and only complete their assigned jobs. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses figurative language and details to explain political and social issues in the 1920s-1930s when this novel was written. Mustapha Mond is one of the

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    books control their subjects through force, but the government in Fahrenheit 451 utilizes strategic changes in the educational system and home life, while the leaders in A Long Way Gone coerce their fighters with drugs and brainwashing. In Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, drastic changes in children’s lives ensure the passivity of the growing generations. One such change begins with the new ways of teaching children in schools. The government began guiding the kids early in their lives, and

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