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Since early on man has been interested in the consumption of substances
that altered the mind or ones feeling. The consumption of substances can be
broken down into legal and illegal substances. The question is, who are we to
label certain substances illegal and prohibit others from using them by creating
penalties for their use?
If the importation, sale and use of drugs were legal, the open
competition would eliminate the profitability of drug dealing. Without the
economic incentive to commit violent crimes, the violence of drug dealing would
be dramatically reduced. In addition to the elimination of the economic
incentive, the health risk factor would help to reduce the role of the drug
dealer. A potential customer would probably choose to buy a market-tested
product from a pharmacy as opposed to buying a product of unknown dosage and
quality from a corner dealer.
Without the advantage of large profits, the drug dealing profession
would lose its luster. A major problem is that teenagers see selling drugs as
the only way to make money. Minimum wage salaries can not compare to the huge
profits associated with dealing. In a drug community, the drug dealers are seen
as the center of the community. They become role models for the children,
replacing their parents. Eliminating the drug dealer will force these young
children into the reality that education is the way to ...
Something Happened! - The Sexual Harassment Suit of the Nancy Hart and the Something happened all right, to the tune of $650,000!! That's what it cost the City of Peabody to settle a sexual harassment suit filed by a female Police Officer. She claimed she was singled out and discriminated against. The City of Peabody and the Chief of Police, start...
Individual Work Two Week Four Jennifer Leonard II Instructor Kurt Lofland August 10[th], 2013 Calder v Jones 465 U.S. 783, 104 S. Ct. 1482, 79 L. Ed. 2d 804, 1984 U.S. 41 No. 82-1401...
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