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    The Maryland drug court has failed yet another person and he is now headed to prison. This person is the love of my life and my three month old son 's father. It all started last Christmas. The day after Christmas his missed a urine test and was sent to jail for three weeks after informing his parole officer he was out of town. They told him “You are better off failing a urine test than to miss a test.” even though he submitted a test the very next day. He was the sole provider at the time because

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    understand that marijuana is a drug that can actually help; not only people with mental and physical problems such as cancer, but the economy as well by getting rid of the hard drugs that cause real problems and benefiting from a drug(s) that that can actually help problems. When it comes to finding drugs such as cocaine, heroine, meth, etc… Apart from being highly costly, drug law enforcement seems to be not doing their job as well as they could be. Illegal drugs are still finding their way into

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    The War on Drugs One of the key aspects to consider when evaluating domestic political actors preferences towards policies pertaining to illegal drug use in both the Netherlands and Germany is to evaluate their ideological differences. The Netherlands attitude towards drug policy revolves around limiting the negative impacts illegal drug use has on society by implementing laws catered towards decriminalization. On the other hand, Germany considers drugs a detriment to society and promotes legislation

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    The history of drug trafficking goes back to the nineteenth century when drugs like heroin, cocaine and morphine were introduced into society and exposed people to the dangers of abuse and addiction. The US began adopting restrictions on drug use, distribution and trafficking both locally and the international production of coca and opium crops, but it also elicited a massive kickback from drug cartels. In the 1850s, Chinese immigrants introduced opium smoking when they came to California

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    Essay on OxyContin New Entry in the Drug War

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    in the Drug War When concerned with the ethics of development in a global environment, the issue of drug abuse is of particular importance. All of the different aspects of the drug trade impact a nation, and specifically the development of a nation within a global environment. Within the United States, drug abuse has been prevalent among specific populations in society for almost a half of a century now. Historically speaking, drug abuse has erupted in many directions; new drugs have offered

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    its creation, this analgesic opiate became the primary treatment in the United States for various medical ailments including pain, anxiety, and respiratory problems (Acock, 1993). Acock (1993) reveals that opioids were widely used during the Civil War, with numbers reaching up to ten million opioid pills for the Union Army alone. Morphine was essentially the cure-all on the battlefield. The result

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    Berlinda Luc 20 October 2015 The War on Inner National Drugs 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

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    memory of teachers, parents, and even your old folks saying “Don’t do drugs they’ll mess up your life and you won’t amount to anything.” Even more so with my mom after all being brought up with a drug dealer dad can alter your perception on many things and for kid who saw things that was far more mature then what 5 year old child should see. Which as a kid that is very frightening and would scare away the thought of consuming drugs or anything in that area. Unfortunately as the old saying goes “curiosity

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    didn’t know what to do they tried praying for him and going to the church but nothing worked at the time. Later on, into the month of May, a huge load of drugs and weapons had arrived for The Bloods. Jay was in charge of making sure that the stuff got in the warehouse. Their leader MB called in a meeting at the warehouse to discuss a turf war with the Crips. “ The reason why I bought all these military weapons was so we could kill the Crips, MB shouted!” He had mapped out a plan on how to take them

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    the war on drugs, which as a social issue has had a unique effect on the security agenda of states. The modern war on drugs began in the 1970’s when Nixon declared it a nation wide problem and began to focus on both the supply and demand aspects of drug use. As a geo-political problem the war on drugs can be explained in two ways. The first way, as outlined in Waltraud Morales’s article The War on Drugs: a New US National Security Doctrine? explores how the United States uses the war on drugs as a

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