Thomas v. Union Carbide Agric. Products Co. 473 U.S. 568 (1985) Judicial History: Under the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Federal Insecticides, Fungicides, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), manufacturers were required to register their pesticides. EPA had a “me-too” process that allowed for the pesticide equivalent of generic drugs. Monsanto Corporation sued because EPA was making them publicize trade secrets, which they claimed was a taking. Congress reiterated in Section 3(c)(1)(D)(ii) of FIFRA that EPA should make administrative decisions about how much money these manufacturers would get for damages from loss of their trade secrets.
Earl Rochester argues that Americans should be licensed to drink alcohol. He claims that eight to twelve percent of Americans will “become alcoholics or problem drinkers.” Rochester’s proposal is a written test in which applicants study information about alcohol and the laws that surround drinking before obtaining a license which they must show in bars or stores before purchasing alcohol of any kind. I disagree with Rochester’s proposal; this country already has a legal drinking age, an ID check before purchasing, and laws surrounding the consumption of alcohol – an extra test will not prevent “problem drinkers or alcoholics” from consuming. Here in America the legal drinking age is already enforced. Most high school students take a Health class in which they learn the effects of many substances, including alcohol, on the body.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was established on 1 July 1973. It was proposed to create a single federal agency to enforce the federal drug laws as well as to consolidate and coordinate the government's drug control activities. The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE), and other federal offices merged together to create the DEA. (DEA History) President Nixon saw that the introduction of drugs into American started to take a terrible toll on the nation. American children couldn’t walk to school in relative safety, worrying only about report cards or the neighborhood bully.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the United States oldest consumer protection agency. This federal agency was previously named the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration, Bureau of Chemistry, and Division of Chemistry. The Department of Health and Human Services is the parent agency of the FDA. Nine agencies fall under the umbrella of the FDA. Formed in 1906 from other governmental agencies by the Pure Food and Drug Act, which prohibited interstate commerce in contaminated and mis-branded food and drugs.
A year ago, the government estimated 4.1 million Americans were using marijuana. Imagine that number doubling or even tripling. Legalization of the drug will throw our country into a state of turmoil because if no law exists to keep one from using a drug, then more and more of the drug will be used. Making pot readily available to the public for recreational use will greatly affect the future of America for we are poisoning the fresh minds of our youth. Children will begin using at a younger age; therefore, the physical and mental effects will be significantly increased.
Anti-drug legislation analysis Denise Walker CJA/354 December 5, 2011 Professor Lora Terrill Anti-drug legislation analysis The drug that will be discussed in this paper would be marijuana. Marijuana is a drug that a lot of individual use or sell. Marijuana is a drug that is against federal and state regulation. Federal and state are against the anti-drug legislation. According to Criminal Law today, “By the 1930s, government attention came to be riveted on marijuana”.
Even more striking were the results in California, where voters overwhelmingly passed one of the broadest sentencing reforms in the nation, defelonizing possession of hard drugs. One week later, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD announced an end to arrests for marijuana possession. It's all part of the most significant story in American drug policy since the passage of the 21st Amendment legalized alcohol in 1933: The people of this country are leading a dramatic de-escalation in the War on Drugs.”
By the mid-1980’s crack cocaine had permeated cities across the United States, and because of the price and the availability it appealed largely to poor and disenfranchised people (Falck, Wang, & Carlson, 2007). Crack cocaine is a crystallized form of the drug cocaine that is typically smoked (Vaughn, Fu, Perron, Bohnert, & Howard, 2010). In 2005, more than a quarter-million people in the United States between the ages of twelve and forty-nine years old smoked crack cocaine for the first time, and this was an increase in substance users from 2004 (Falck et al., 2007). Today, crack cocaine is a stimulant drug with euphorigenic and reinforcing properties that has become a staple in America’s street drug pharmacopeia, according to nearly eight million people that have confessed to being a user most of their life (Falck et al., 2007). Frankly, smoked crack cocaine has high abuse and dependence liabilities which is equal to the injection of cocaine HCI, but many users who have experienced both methods of administration rated the high associated with smoking greater, and liked it better, than the one produced by injection (Falck et al., 2007).
They believe by continuing to fight the so called “war on drugs”, the U.S. government has worsened these problems of society instead of alleviating them. They also state that drug prohibition is the true cause of much of the social and personal damage that has historically been attributed to drug use. It is prohibition that makes these drugs so valuable. Nearly 40 years and some 40 million arrest later, drugs are cheaper, more potent and far more widely used than at the beginning of this futile crusade, at the cost of tens of billions of dollars every year. How much more evidence does Washington need.
Medical marijuana and marijuana have had a long, lengthy history of repeated use in the United States. First, from 1900 to 1940, marijuana, including opium and cocaine were considered part of everyday drugs. As time went on, the U.S. cracked down on crack and opium, eventually outlawing them but continued to be very “loose” with the use of marijuana. Eventually, as time continued to roll on, the use of marijuana became “frowned upon.” Marijuana was illegal and the U.S. government became strict with the cannabis laws. This began around the 1980s and then started to become increasingly worse.