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Why All Drugs Should Be Legal
A woman stands on a street corner and takes out a small cylinder of a drug rolled in paper. A policeman walks by and glances over. Could this woman be in trouble? Well, that depends on whether or not the drug has been repeatedly proven to cause lung cancer, even to second-hand users. If so,…
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A Cure Withheld
BY RACHEL BUTLER In 2012, US health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers, enough to give a bottle of pills to every adult in the country, and that number is on the rise. Prescription medications now kill more people than cocaine and heroin combined. Illegal opioids like heroin are also cheaper and…
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Sentencing War: Disparities and Injustices in Cracking Down on Cocaine
BY HAYLEY LEVY The United States, with only 5 percent of the world’s population, has 25 percent of the world’s prison population. Presently, individuals in the United States are incarcerated at a rate of 748 inmates per 100,000 people. The country with the closest rate is Russia, with a rate of 600 incarcerated per 100,000…
