CJ 301 Law & Society Spring Semester 2013‚ 3 credits Mondays‚ 4 – 6:40 pm Instructor/Course Information: Instructor: Alan Mobley‚ Ph.D. Office Location: 160A Professional Studies and Fine Arts Building (PSFA) Office Hours: Wed‚ 3 – 4pm‚ or by appointment E-mail Address: amobley@mail.sdsu.edu Course Description: The course will familiarize you with tools and concepts related to a course of study that often goes by different names‚ including socio-legal studies‚ sociology
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In the 1800’s‚ cannabis‚ more commonly known as marijuana‚ was legal in most states in the United States‚ and was mostly used for medicinal purposes. The first notable instance of regulation in the U.S. was in 1906‚ with the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. After the Mexican Revolution in 1910‚ Mexican immigrants introduced the American public to marijuana use recreationally. Following the widespread use of marijuana in the ensuing years‚ more and more states created laws regulating marijuana use
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The Decriminalization of Marijuana Today it is not uncommon to be watching television and come across an advertisement promoting the use of alcohol and cigarettes. Both substances are detrimental to your health‚ and have no medical value yet both are legal to anyone of age. To a Cancer or AIDS patients seeking relief from marijuana‚ these commercials must be difficult to bear. Peter McWilliams stated‚ "Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science‚ and our leaders have lied
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You will not endure pain if you become bound to the drug said Galen‚ a roman physician in context to gladiators consuming opium to numb their battle wounds. For over 4‚800 years marijuana has been used for medical purposes. Until the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act banned marijuana and created uncertainty in Americans. Especially with the with the arrival of new drugs like aspirin which became the new pain reliever and marijuana came to be known as an intoxicant. Until today‚ with the rise in popularity of
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young and supposedly reckless prime minister of Canada pushes for the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana‚ more questions arise. Such as appropriate rules to be set in place to control‚ restrict and regulate access and use of marijuana. With one of the most serious accidents today in canada is driving under the influence‚ causing many fatalities each year‚ so what will happen when another influential drug will be legalized in canada’s society? Will Canadians learn from other societies that
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fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. Worldwide‚ human trafficking is the second largest source of organized crime‚ only behind drug cartels. By CIA estimates‚ there are 45‚000-50‚000 victims of sex slavery and trafficking each year in the U.S. alone. The sex industry in the United States is worth a staggering $14 billion a year. Decriminalization of prostitution and the sex industry promotes sex trafficking and expands the markets for prostitutes. The argument that legalization would
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out against the restricted legislation. Tom Wolfe‚ governor of the Keystone State‚ discussed marijuana decriminalization on a radio show last summer: “There are too many people who are going to prison because of the use of very modest amounts or carry modest amounts of marijuana‚ and that is clogging up our prisons‚ it’s destroying families and it’s hurting our economy‚ so I think decriminalization is the first step”. Also‚ State Senator Daylin Leach is combatting the laws prohibiting recreational
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Jueteng has been very famous here in the Philippines and is widely patronized by Filipinos although it is illegal. According to some‚ it is something that shouldn’t exist but there’s more into it. As Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and other lawmakers proposed jueteng legalization‚ lots of contradicting and supporting ideas in this regard were brought up. What if it will be legalized? Will it be a friend or a foe? Despite all the scandals and criticisms that it is encountering‚ jueteng will
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type that comes to mind is a street prostitute. This person works on the streets trying to sell herself. The street prostitute and the adolescent prostitutes are the ones that most commonly engage in the most dangerous behavior‚ including frequent drug use‚ contracting STD’s‚ and also engaging in other illegal behaviors. The streetwalker is also the one to most likely to get caught and jailed for their activity. House prostitutes and call girls are the more “safe” form. Especially if working legally
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discuss the issue of decriminalization of sex work in the South African context. One may understand decriminalization as the removal of laws that are against sex work or prostitution. Using Wojcicki (2002) the paper intends to discuss in detail the movement of decriminalization from the apartheid era to the post apartheid era. In addition‚ the discussion in this paper also includes discussion of the discourse of sex work and lastly‚ thoughts and ideas of the decriminalization of sex work in the South
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