HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fair Sentencing Act, Public Health, Al-Qaeda
20 Nov 2018
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Origins of the war on drugs: fear of race, 1960s link between civil disobedience, rebellion, openness to drugs, following concerns about vietnam vets, nixon declares wod in 1971. Increasing power of federal drug agencies, severity of punishment, prison as deterrent: the vets had addictions, concern about hippie movement. Globalization and addiction - colombia: wod globalized, american-led wod sparks mass fumigation, health, and economy destroyed to. Invasion of afghanistan, home to 90% of global opium crop. Controlling poppy production as fundamental ro stopping al-qaeda: the taliban benefit from the opium trade. In theory, drugs that are the most harmful are illegal, while most helpful are legal: this division in increasingly questioned, david nutt, uk drug czar , attacks government for distance between legal and scientific view of harms. Equasy study: dangerous, can involve threats to a person"s life, it"s addictive, can"t imagine any alternative way of life.
