Can we please have some honesty about drugs
The goal of my paper is to show that contextual values have contributed to an incorrect view of drugs, in particular: marijuana, cocaine and opiates. To meet my paper’s objective: I will trace the development of drug policies in a chronological manner, showing the biases behind policy decisions that...
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| author | Saad ul Hassan Hashmi |
| author2 | Olav Benjamin Vassend |
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| description | The goal of my paper is to show that contextual values have contributed to an incorrect view of drugs, in particular: marijuana, cocaine and opiates. To meet my paper’s objective: I will trace the development of drug policies in a chronological manner, showing the biases behind policy decisions that were enacted either against evidence or based on popular sentiments. In section one, I will present the historical context up until the 1920 when the first prohibitionist legislation came into effect. In section two, I present the role of Harry Anslinger and the upheaval of Marijuana and the causes behind it being made illegal in the 1930s against empirical evidence provided. Next, in section three, I present the period from 1971 when the declaration of the “War on Drugs” was made and its impact on drug research. Finally, in section four, I will discuss contemporary research on drugs. In section five, I consider more objections to the arguments I have made and draw a final conclusion: that policy should be framed based on evidence. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/738872019-12-10T13:06:58Z Can we please have some honesty about drugs Saad ul Hassan Hashmi Olav Benjamin Vassend School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences DRNTU::Humanities DRNTU::Science The goal of my paper is to show that contextual values have contributed to an incorrect view of drugs, in particular: marijuana, cocaine and opiates. To meet my paper’s objective: I will trace the development of drug policies in a chronological manner, showing the biases behind policy decisions that were enacted either against evidence or based on popular sentiments. In section one, I will present the historical context up until the 1920 when the first prohibitionist legislation came into effect. In section two, I present the role of Harry Anslinger and the upheaval of Marijuana and the causes behind it being made illegal in the 1930s against empirical evidence provided. Next, in section three, I present the period from 1971 when the declaration of the “War on Drugs” was made and its impact on drug research. Finally, in section four, I will discuss contemporary research on drugs. In section five, I consider more objections to the arguments I have made and draw a final conclusion: that policy should be framed based on evidence. Bachelor of Arts 2018-04-18T05:39:53Z 2018-04-18T05:39:53Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73887 en Nanyang Technological University 44 p. application/pdf |
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