Alcohol Abuse Center: Why Do You Disagree With This Paper?
Question by beaandbunny05: Why do you disagree with this paper?
The United States must declare an end to the war on drugs. This war has filled the nation’s prisons with poor drug addicts and smalltime drug dealers. It has created a multibillion-dollar black market, enriched organized crime groups and promoted the corruption of government officials throughout the world. And it has not stemmed the widespread use of illegal drugs. By any rational measure, this war has been a total failure.
We must develop public policies on substance abuse that are guided not by moral righteousness or political expediency but by common sense. The United States should immediately decriminalize the cultivation and possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Marijuana should no longer be classified as a Schedule 1 narcotic, and those who seek to use marijuana as medicine should no longer face criminal sanctions. We must shift our entire approach to drug abuse from the criminal justice system to the public health system. Congress should appoint an independent commission to study the harm-reduction policies that have been adopted in Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The commission should recommend policies for the United States based on one import criterion: what works.
In a nation where pharmaceutical companies advertise powerful antidepressants on billboards and where alcohol companies run amusing beer ads during the Super Bowl, the idea of a “drug-free society” is absurd. Like the rest of American society, our drug policy would greatly benefit from less punishment and more compassion.
Instructions: Read the following passage by the cultural critic Eric Schlosser. As you’ll see, he hasn’t planted any naysayers in this text. Do it for him. Insert a brief paragraph stating an objection to his argument and then responding to the objection as he might.
It’s not my paper. I just want opinions from others because I’m not sure where to begin.
Best answer:
Answer by Ahmed Salaam
What kind of paper has a word limit of 250?
Anyway I’ll unpack…
“The United States must declare an end to the war on drugs.”
– Good first sentence for what you are arguing but I disagree with it.
“We must develop public policies on substance abuse that are guided not by moral righteousness or political expediency but by common sense. The United States should immediately decriminalize the cultivation and possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use.”
– No, there is no good evidence that marijuana should be used even medicinally, let alone for privately.
“those who seek to use marijuana as medicine should no longer face criminal sanctions”
– Again, there is no good evidence that marijuana should be used even medicinally.
“We must shift our entire approach to drug abuse from the criminal justice system to the public health system.”
– No, too much strain on hospitals and drug centres.
“Congress should appoint an independent commission to study the harm-reduction policies that have been adopted in Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands.”
– United States is very different to those countries.
“alcohol companies run amusing beer ads during the Super Bowl”
Nothing wrong/harmful with drinking one beer on special occasions. I like to know what beer brands are out there.
“the idea of a “drug-free society” is absurd.”
No it isn’t.
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