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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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Essay Topics
What is the internal conflict that Hari personally feels concerning the war on drugs and addiction?
Discuss and analyze what Hari means by the term “race panic” and why it was instrumental to criminalizing marijuana.
Explain the meaning of Hari’s analysis in Chapter 4 that in reality two different drug wars are going on.
Discuss and analyze the reasons why statistics prove that the two times in American history that the murder rate increased dramatically were from 1920 to 1933 and from 1970 to 1990.
Why did Leigh Maddox conclude that the arrests and drug laws that she was enforcing were racist?
Explain the unique circumstances that led to the US military training the Zetas, one of the world’s most violent drug cartels.
What is the pharmaceutical theory of addiction, and how does it differ from the theory of addiction that Gabor Maté advanced?
Analyze some of the steps that Bud Osborn and VANDU took in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver to prevent overdose deaths.
Compare and contrast the drug law reforms in Switzerland, under Ruth Dreifuss, to those in Uruguay, under José Mujica.
How did the paths to reforming marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington differ?
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