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Shana Thomas

The Effects of Marijuana Decriminalization - 0 views

  • Despite fears that use would increase because of decriminalization, there is little evidence to show that this happened in any of the 11 states that have decriminalized small quantities of marijuana. Also, reductions in the costs of enforcement and courts have meant that these funds can be spent elsewhere.
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    marijuana can be good for the US; there are cons- but more pros
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    found this article!
Austin Buben

BalancedPolitics.org - Legalization of Marijuana (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Agains... - 1 views

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      Austin Buben found this document first.
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      Everything that I highlight is something that is a weak topic.
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  • are likely
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  • harmfulness of marijuana are inconclusive and contradictory
  • Most doctors would agree that it's not very harmful if used in moderation
  • isn't abuse of almost any bad substance a problem
  • Most doctors believe that marijuana is no more addictive that alcohol or tobacco.
  • All illegal drugs are higher in price because the production, transportation, and sale of the drugs carry heavy risks.
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  • if someone in the drug trade screws you over, there's no police to call or lawyers to litigate. You must settle disputes yourself.
  • enormous amount of money is raised through government taxation of alcohol, cigarettes, and other "sins".
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    This is a basic website that should help lead everyone in a general direction of what they should get started on and further research these subjects.
Austin Buben

Hamas: Government or Terrorist Organization? : NPR - 1 views

  • "A democratically elected Hamas is still a terrorist organization."
  • Hamas has targeted and killed many civilians, and Israel's occupation has contributed to a violent political environment.
  • Steven A. Cook, a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, started off the evening by acknowledging several facts, which he immediately said were entirely irrelevant. Yes, he said, Hamas was legitimately elected freely and fairly. Yes, Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank and, until recently, Gaza. Yes, Hamas has done much good with its social programs. But, he said, none of that matters. Hamas' central charter calls for the violent overthrow of Israel. Hamas continues to kill innocent civilians. The group must lay down its arms and renounce its violent charter. Until then, Cook said, Hamas can only be labeled a terrorist group.
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  • "A terrorist is a man who murders indiscriminately, distinguishing neither between civilian and innocent and guilty nor soldier and civilian." Terrorism, O'Sullivan argued, is an issue of tactics, not ultimate goals. There can be pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi terrorists, he said; pro-Israel terrorists and anti-Israel ones. In other words, it doesn't matter what we think of Hamas' ultimate goals. All that is important, he argued, is that they employ indiscriminate violence. Until they stop, they should be labeled as terrorists and treated as international pariahs
  • He portrayed a powerful and vicious Israel that has indiscriminately killed many thousands of innocent Palestinians. Cohen argued that Hamas is not a terrorist group, but a nationalist resistance forced to resort to violence because it has so little power compared with Israel.
  • The audience was asked to vote before and after the speakers made their arguments. At the beginning of the evening, 60 percent voted that Hamas is, indeed, still a terrorist organization, 19 percent voted against that proposition and 21 percent didn't know. After the talk, 51 percent were in favor of the motion, 32 percent opposed it and 17 percent were undecided.
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      This is exactly the webpage that will help us to win.
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    Agreement that hamas is a terrorist organization running a government.
Kevin Gregor

Netanyahu: Israel Cannot Return To 1967 Borders | Fox News - 1 views

  • A peace agreement, he said, must assure Israel's security: "Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967 borders," he declared, rekindling the dispute with Obama in a possible effort to placate territorial hardliners in his government.
Austin Buben

10 Contemporary Drug Problems 1981 Review of the Effects of the Decriminalization of Ma... - 3 views

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    Good back up organizations to support your quotations.
Ellen Mischinski

http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/policy-review/2011v4/content/merida-initiative.pdf - 1 views

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      The United States has five percent of the world's population, yet it has seventeen percent of the world's drug addicts
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       the closure of methamphetamine labs in the United States has led to significant increases of methamphetamine production in Mexico
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      after President Calderon's declaration of a war on drugs, an estimated 28,228 drug trade related deaths have been reported.
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      A paradigm shift will be necessary to lessen violence in Mexico. The Obama administration's approach of collaboration and shared responsibility is a welcome departure from that of past administrations, but insufficient attention is given by it to the problem of US demand for drugs. The United States has five percent of the world's population, yet it has seventeen percent of the world's drug addicts. US drug policy should reflect these numbers. The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reported that the closure of methamphetamine labs in the United States has led to significant increases of methamphetamine production in Mexico. Rather than a decline in the quantity of methamphetamines, production has simple moved to a new location.40 Counterdrug programs must focus on and fund drug addiction eradication programs and anti-drug education with the zeal demonstrated by counternarcotics military operations in order to effectively reduce drug demand and drug violence. This approach would meet the criteria of lessening demand and reducing supply in the long run; by attacking drug demand, drug supply would be significantly affected over time
Ellen Mischinski

http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/16/3brewer.pdf?rd=1 - 0 views

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      p.11, paragraph 2 and on. Survey of Mexican residents says that military stuff isn't working
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      "wholesale illicit drug proceeds [in the US] reach tens of billions of dollars each year. As long as this demand exists, drugs will continue to flow north regardless of the level of deterrence that the security forces deploy."
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      Clinton's words, "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs [in the U.S.] fuels the drug trade."3
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      The U.S. must instead prioritize domestic demand reduction and halt the flow of assault weapons over the border if it is to cease exporting both the motive and the means for violent drug trafficking to Mexico.
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      1 Yet an examination of the current Mexican and regional context leads to the conclusion that without a paradigm shift in design, the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars earmarked for the Mérida Initiative and other anti-drug aid to Mexico will fuel a dysfunctional approach to public security-one that is characterized by widespread human rights violations within the framework of an ineffective war against criminals that has not reduced drug-related violence.
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      One could argue that the United States can avoid fueling human rights violations in Mexico by withholding funding from certain military or police units shown to be responsible for such abuses or by waiting to disburse assistance until Mexico has met certain human rights requirements.
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      In addition to these concerns, the consistently ineffective track record of frontal-combat approaches to reducing drug trafficking leave little doubt that supporting such an approach now will not end the drug trade, despite any short-term increases in the number of arrests or amount of drugs seized
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      In February 2009, the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, composed of leading political figures including former Presidents of Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil, issued its conclusions on this subject. It strongly criticized as ineffective the U.S.-led drug war paradigm of the past 30 years and called for a public health approach to drug policy centered on treatment and demand reduction.
Ellen Mischinski

http://www.witnessforpeace.org/downloads/Witness%20for%20Peace%20Fact%20Sheet_Merida%20... - 0 views

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       Currently 50 million people live in poverty in Mexico. Deeply impoverished and unemployed people in Mexico have three options for survival: migration, tenuous and often dangerous work in the informal economy, and crime.
Shana Thomas

BOP: Quick Facts - 0 views

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      tagline * there are other reasons ppl are put in prision/ marijuana isnt the only issue of crime in the USA
  • Total population:217,582
  • Drug Offenses:102,580(50.6 %
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