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...victimization in the United States are in the mid range of similarly developed nations. What, then, could explain such a large prison population? Approximately 31 percent of state prison sentences are for simple possession or trafficking of drugs. This is far too many. While the legalization of all drugs??suggested by some as a solution to high rates of abuse and imprisonment—has too many unforeseeable social consequences to be implementable, the justice system must change its attitude towards drug sentencing. There is little justification for imprisonment on charges related to marijuana, as legalized and strictly...
...plot. After his psychiatrist prescribes him Ritalin to remedy his “concentration problem,” Charlie is struck by an ingenious idea: create his own psychiatric practice in the stalls of the boys’ bathroom. The way in which he obtains the necessary drugs??memorizing textbook symptoms, then rattling them off to his clueless psychiatrist for a prescription—is as improbable as the advice he dispenses to his insecure classmates. This counseling includes the gem: “Sometimes people say things and mean something else.” As might...
...would be horrified at the thought of legalizing speed happily give Adderall, an amphetamine, to children. The only difference is that prescribed drugs “fix” a problem, supposedly making you more normal (happier if you are depressed, calmer if you are agitated, etc.), whereas illegal drugs??which can have the same physiological effects—make you “high,” or abnormal...
...power, children’s literature today has become an amalgamation of commercial interests, political correctness, and entertainment. On Amazon.com you can browse the children’s books by the “Issues” within them—which range from “Drugs?? to “Multiculturalism.” Other books like “And Tango Makes Three” introduce children to important concepts like animal homosexuality, as explored in the true story of two male penguins that mated for life and raised a chick in the New York...
That, however, was not the end of it. The body still had to be sliced and diced by a medical examiner, who predictably concluded that the cause of death was a toxic cocktail of prescription drugs??from methadone to choral hydrate (an ingredient of animal tranquilizers)—in her bloodstream...