Drugs and Marajuana Exam 2

drug czar in 2002 under bush admin; supported the idea that marajuana was agateway drug; focused on marajuana including medical rather than more harmful drugs

paramilitary commander who ran his drug trade from prison in Columbia

US got involved in Columbian civil war and drugs hoping to stop it from spreading to the US. It was not successful according to the CIA and spent $1/2 trillion

controlled mexican drug cartels near the border

president in Mexico who tried to turn things around by busting bad cops like the Zetas who joined the drug cartels

former military soldiers join drug cartels

Pham exec from China found with $2 million cash in a house and arrested in Mexico

changed the marketing of drugs by going after demand not supply by getting users treatment or jail if they could not stop.

a wanted and rich folkhero in Mexico led relatively stable narco regime

Us sent $1.6 million aid to Mexico to combat drug cartels but it only empowered them

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$35.8 billion

50,000

• 1619 - Hemp legalized
• 1930s - criminalized by Anslinger
• 1960s - decriminalized
• 1970s - recriminalized
• 2010 - possibly decriminalized

gov propaganda showing how marajuana intrudes on white american life

first gov. drug czar; fueled outlawing (29 states) with anti immigration sentiments

1937 criminalized marajuana possession

1940s US gov. researched used of LSD

from strict criminal justice to public health

1970; differentiates marajuana and lessened penalties

1972; Nixon recommends decriminalizing marajuana but caves to extreme right winger to pursue student radicals, blacks and native americans

parents responded to daughter's bday party where there was marajuana; form social movement organization like Nosy Parents Association; led to recriminalization in the 1970s

from public health to moral

currently illegal; Schedule 1 Controlled Substance

gov can seize property, money... if involved in drug trade and informants can keep up to 25%

set by congress and decided on by Fed. judge; if someone is caught with a certain amount of drugs, there is a minimum definite penalty they will experience unless they can cut a deal by offering up intelligence like their dealer's information

1984

1986 inacted mandatory minimums

Californian law legalized medical marajuana

remote area of Northern Calif. including Mendocine, Humboldt, TRinity, where larger growers organized crime and individuals grow nearly 2/3 of the economy

rush to california to grow marajuana.

one of the biggest obstacles in legitimizing medical marajuana

refers to El Chappos paying off police to get out of jail

current US drug czar