Crack and Cocaine Despite the similar effects between the two illegal drugs crack and powder cocaine, the two drug exhibits a huge difference in the sentencing policy. Powder cocaine is obtained and derived from the leaves of cocoa plants, whereas crack cocaine is created from powder cocaine by neutralizing it with baking soda and water. This forms a hard substance that looks much like a rock called crack. With an exemption that powder cocaine is snorted and crack is smoked, crack is basically cocaine. The most important difference between the two drugs is crack permits the user to a quick and very extreme high, while the powder cocaine allows the user to a slower and a weaker high.
After prohibition had ended, all did not just go back to normal. The alcohol brewing industry in the United States saw only half of the existing breweries reopen, yet there was an introduction to the American Lager which is still largely known and enjoyed today. As far as the effects on the wine industry, the quality of the grape vines used for wine making greatly decreased to make them more easily transportable. The effects of prohibition are still seen today on the debate of the legal drinking age and the accessibility to drugs and alcohol. Alcohol consumption is not right or wrong, it is up to the individual to decide how they choose the live their
Morphine is derived from Opium. Many people were suffering from alcohol addiction and Morphine was used as the “cure” for the alcohol addiction. Morphine is far worse than alcohol and doctors were well aware. Doctors preferred to have people addicted to Morphine because it was socially and domestically safer. Alcoholics were more likely to beat their wives and children and cause havoc upon the city (“The Problem of Pain Relief”).
Cocaine is another stimulant that often leads to dependence in users. It is derived from coca leaves, and was once a socially acceptable drug. Coca Cola used cocaine along with caffeine and sugar to produce one of western society’s most popular beverages (Rathus 113). Nicotine is yet another frequently abused stimulant prevalent in our time. Smoking is the primary causal factor for at least 30% of all cancer deaths, for nearly 80% of deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and for early cardiovascular disease and deaths (Adhikari B., PhD, J Kahende, PhD, A Malarcher, PhD, T Pechacek, PhD, V Tong 1).
This form of trafficking, involving children, is also refereed to as “DMST” or (Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking) (Kotrla 1). Recent studies have shown that there are “currently at least 100,000 DMST victims in the United states with up to 325,000 more at risk for becoming such victims”(Kotrla 2). Children become easy targets for traffickers because of their vulnerability and helplessness. On average these children are being trafficked between the ages of 11 and 14, although a few are found to be as young as 5 (Kotrla 2). Although the victims of this trafficking varies, statistics show those who have been thrown out of their homes, those who have a history of abuse, or are being handled by the government through foster care or child protective services are most likely to get pulled into this industry (Kotrla 4).
Labor trafficking accounted for 12 percent of incidents, and other or unknown forms of human trafficking made up the remaining five percent; about a third of these incidents involved sex trafficking of children (January 2009). A shocking 92 percent of women involved in sex trafficking activities used drugs and alcohol to cope with their experiences and a half of those women didn’t use drugs or alcohol until they entered the sex industry (Raymond and Hughes, 12). 43 percent of U.S. women tried to leave the sex industry, but 27 percent of those women said that it was hard to leave because of drug addictions, economic necessity, and pimps that beat or threatened them and their
WHAT IS CRACK COCAINE DIANE RAY ENG/101 JULY 05, 2013 ELIZABETH FLEITZ KUECHEMEISTER WHAT IS CRACK COCAINE Crack Cocaine is a very powerfully drug. Cocaine is made when it is heated up with water and baking soda it begins to form and make crack pipe for smoking. Cocaine is a drug that affects the brain and the nerve system .this powerful drug can cause irritable, depression, itching, and stomach upset, and craving for substance (Edward Roxanna Dryden). Cocaine can be use through the nose for (snorted) it can be use to injecting into a needle to shoot into you vein to receive the higher high there is because it go straight to your bloodstream and become effective than ever. Several people 17 to 58 or even in 60 has use crack cocaine sometime in their life.
These cities and states are really taking advantage of this money; they can make good use of it, imagine what it can do for California or other places. The states that have not legalized it yet are the ones losing because prostitution is fast and easy money, “the annual prostitution tax of about $3,100…” in certain brothels (Bilefsky). “In the Netherlands… about 20,000 prostitutes pay taxes, according to the Prostitution Information Center in Amsterdam” (Bilefsky). These are a lot of prostitutes that pay taxes; now just imagine how much money that goes to the states who tax them. In most brothels politicians say that “in a typical thirty- day period it nets its investors $88,000” (Leuchtag).
A study conducted in 2004 showed that 3,100 people die each year and 72, 000 are hospitalized due to alcohol. Young Australians are becoming part of this statistic. Another study stated that one teen age 14-19 years dies every week due alcohol consumption. Australia also has one of the highest rates of alcohol disorders in the world. According to the national survey of health and wellbeing, 22% of people who over consume alcohol will develop alcohol use disorders (National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, 2010).
Who are Crack babies? The term crack came alone with the babies who were born to mothers who use cocaine during their pregnancy. It was believed that the damage caused by cocaine is permanent. Most of these children were not active as a normal child. They were unable to pay attention to their school work.