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Instructions
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Select ONE DF option and post your response below.
- Your main DF Post should be at least 3 paragraphs in length, or 250-words minimum.
- Students may exceed the minimum word count; however, aim to write succinctly.
- Answer your chosen prompt thoroughly, using the assigned readings to substantiate your arguments.
- Be sure to indicate which option you chose by writing the option number and option title.
- Your two Peer Response Posts should be at least five sentences—for each Peer Response.
- Include a word count at the end of your main post and for your two Peer Response posts.
- Note: There are several steps to complete your chosen DF option for this DF; therefore, please make sure to review your main post before you submit it.
Option #1: Cross-Cultural Examination on Drugs
Overview: Social Problems: Continuity and Change (2016) discusses and identifies the major categories of drugs and the ways in which some drugs have been deemed legal while others are outlawed. It is important to employ our sociological imagination and unpack the sociohistorical context of American society’s culture and other societies’ cultures the world-over by exploring the structural factors that shape how societies deal with licit and illicit drug use.
There are several tasks to complete in this Option; therefore, please make sure to review your main post before you submit.
Task #1: Watch the Economist YouTube Clip titled, "How Portugal and Colorado solved their drug problems."
[Tip: The video clip is closed captioned if you need to use it and its run-time is 15:11 minutes.]
Overview: One of the points Ethan Nadelmann makes is that the policies a society enacts with regard to any drug has a lot to do with the social perception of categories of people thought to use the drug.
Task #2: Watch Big Think’s YouTube clip titled, "Ethan Nadelmann: The War on Drugs is Racist."
[Tip: The video clip is closed captioned if you need to use it and its run-time is 5:10 minutes.]
Task #3 Instructions: After reading Chapter 7 (especially the "Lessons from Other Societies" section on page 313), reviewing the Chapter 7 Lecture Notes, please fully answer the following prompt in its entirety:
- Portugal shifted its focus from criminalizing drug users to offering treatment strategies to help drug users. This approach is called the harm reduction model. What does the harm reduction model aim to do?
- How does Portugal spend its anti-drug funding resources? Explain.
- How has drug decriminalization affected drug-induced deaths in Portugal?
- In 2014 Colorado was the first state to fully legalize cannabis. What has been its effect in terms of revenue? What does Colorado’s marijuana tax revenue fund? Explain.
- One of the points made by Ethan Nadelmann is that the policies a society enacts with regard to any drug has a lot to do with the social perception of categories of people thought to use the drug. What prompted U.S. Congress in 1914 to pass the Harrison Act? Explain.
- Tip: Be sure to integrate evidence from either the text or lecture notes and all chosen prompt option materials to substantiate your work.
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