Abstract The following is a paper in which creates a timeline of the policies and laws legislation has enacted in order to regulate the law enforcement over drugs. Keywords: Drugs, Laws, Regulation, Enforcement, Policies Chronological Timeline of Drug Law Acts in the United States Drugs have been apart of American...

Abstract This paper will be about the criminal justice system and how it relates to marijuana. It will look closely at the current trend in crime rate, both violent and overall, throughout the past couple of years as well as the within the past 40 years. The paper will look...

The research article by Levitan titled “Is Marijuana Really a Gateway Drug?” focuses particularly on people’s addiction to the drug, marijuana and most significantly, how one drug addiction can lead to another. The article is interesting in the sense that it argues that causation is responsible for drug addiction and...

The fastest-growing population in the United States is comprised of Hispanic/Latino residents; between 2000 and 2010, this group accounted for 16.3% of the total population as well as nearly 1/2 of the growth of the US population (Flores, 2011.) In regards to the problems of substance and alcohol use and...

According to Stout (2012), morphine and laudanum were available everywhere before 1914 and heroin was given as a common prescription. The flow of drugs, regardless of their legal status, was easy and effortless. Stout makes the case that these early drug producers were mostly small local operations who used the...