Friday, May 15, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Final Exam
Just a reminder that the final exam is Tuesday, May 5th at our normal time (6:00 p.m.) in our normal location (Fine Arts 339). The test should take you about an hour, but you will have until 9:00 to take it.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
PowerPot
Here's Nadelmann's argument for legalizing drugs from Team Weed's PowerPoint presentation:
P1: Making drugs illegal has not significantly prevented the demand or supply of drugs.
P2: Legalizing illicit drugs could redirect resources to treat and prevent drug abuse.
P3: The legalization of drugs would provide the opportunity for agencies like the FDA to regulate and control the quality of drugs available- which could prevent high numbers of death associated with impure versions.
P4: Some illegal drugs are not more dangerous than tobacco and alcohol, despite the common misconception that they are.
P5: Current drug laws are paternalistic, discourage the tolerant attitudes of a democratic and pluralistic society and encourage individuals to behave as informants and invade the privacy of others.
P6: Between the reduced government expenditures on enforcing drug laws and new tax revenue from legal drug production and sales, public treasuries would enjoy a net benefit.
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C: Legalization of illicit drugs would prevent many of the current drug problems in America.
Background Info
Despite the war on drugs- marijuana usage is fairly mainstream: Grass City provides all the necessary “tools” for the upscale smoker along with well written informational pages on what everything is and how it all works.
The following statistics are from the CDC’s official website:
P1: Making drugs illegal has not significantly prevented the demand or supply of drugs.
P2: Legalizing illicit drugs could redirect resources to treat and prevent drug abuse.
P3: The legalization of drugs would provide the opportunity for agencies like the FDA to regulate and control the quality of drugs available- which could prevent high numbers of death associated with impure versions.
P4: Some illegal drugs are not more dangerous than tobacco and alcohol, despite the common misconception that they are.
P5: Current drug laws are paternalistic, discourage the tolerant attitudes of a democratic and pluralistic society and encourage individuals to behave as informants and invade the privacy of others.
P6: Between the reduced government expenditures on enforcing drug laws and new tax revenue from legal drug production and sales, public treasuries would enjoy a net benefit.
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C: Legalization of illicit drugs would prevent many of the current drug problems in America.
Background Info
Despite the war on drugs- marijuana usage is fairly mainstream: Grass City provides all the necessary “tools” for the upscale smoker along with well written informational pages on what everything is and how it all works.
The following statistics are from the CDC’s official website:
- In 2001, excessive alcohol use was responsible for approximately 75,000 preventable deaths and 2.3 million YPLLs (years of potential life lost) in the United States.
- Excessive alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States and is associated with multiple adverse health consequences, including liver cirrhosis, various cancers, unintentional injuries, and violence.
- Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million have a serious illness caused by smoking. For every person who dies from smoking, 20 more people suffer from at least one serious tobacco-related illness.
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