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> Topic:
>No Topic (1 of 1), Read 2
>times
> Conf:
> Tompkins's conclusion
> From:
>Eric Falk thompsone@lanecc.edu
> Date:
>Monday, May 06, 2002 11:52 AM
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>Exercise 2.1: Finding the
>Questions
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>1. The War on Drugs
>
>
>In the space below, write the
>title of your tentative topic
>(e.g.
>Internet addiction)
>
>
>
>2. I chose this topic because
>it interests me and i don't
>like the
>governments attempt to sway
>people from using them. The
>government is unethical and
>greedy and really don't have a
>clue of
>what to do. There manners need
>to be changed because they are
>making life harder on all
>Americans not just the people
>who Choose
>to use drugs. I also would
>like the opertunity to defend
>a couple
>classified drugs because i
>feel that they have been
>misrepresented
>by our government.
>
>
>Briefly state why you chose
>this topic.
>
>
>
>3. The war on drugs is not
>working. People are not using
>less drugs,
>they are using more. Finally
>the federal government allows
>from
>medical research for
>marijuana. Medical marijuana
>is passed in 8
>states in the U.S..
>President threatens doctors
>with there licences if they
>issue
>prescriptions of marijuana to
>people like cancer, aids,
>glocoma, back
>surgeries, and others types of
>patients they get helped by
>the herb.
>Estacy use is at an all time
>high.
>
>
>Spend about five minutes
>listing what you already know
>(if anything)
>about your topic. For example,
>are you aware of any
>interesting facts, common
>misconceptions, your own
>assumptions,
>important people or
>institutions involved, key
>schools of
>thought, the extent of the
>problem, current trends, etc.?
>
>
>
>4. How many drug related
>arrests are there every year?
>What drugs
>are used the most? What
>percentage of high school
>students have
>tried any drugs? What is the
>percentage of drug abusers in
>the
>prison system? How many people
>would be in jail is drugs were
>legal?
>What types of drug preventions
>are the government trying to
>use,
>instead of jail time? How much
>research has really been done
>on all
>the so called "drugs" ? Are
>people doing drugs for a
>reason? why
>does the government feel the
>need to throw you in jail if
>you have
>drugs? Does jail time prevent
>drug use? If the government
>taxed
>drugs would they make them
>legal like caffeine, alcohol,
>and
>cigarettes? If drugs were
>legal would as many people use
>them? And
>if Drug use were treated like
>a desise instead of a crime
>would that
>help society? Would proper
>education of all drugs help
>society and
>help curb usage? Hoe much
>taxpayer money is used towards
>curbing
>drug use and stopping drug
>trafficking? how much money is
>spent
>trafficking drugs into and
>around the united states? Are
>all drugs bad
>for you? how do drug users
>affect their family? is
>Timothy leary god?
>Did people in the seventies
>have the right idea?
>
>
>Now spend at least fifteen
>minutes brainstorming a list
>of questions
>about your topic you’d love to
>learn the answers to.
>Make this list as long as you
>can, and don’t worry whether
>every
>question is a good one.
>
>
>
>5.
>
>
>If you’re working in a
>computer lab (or generating
>hard copies of the
>exercise), your instructor may
>ask you to comment on
>other students’ responses to
>Steps 1-4. Focus particularly
>on what
>your classmates did in the
>fourth step. For each you
>view, do two things: add a
>question you would like
>answered about
>the student’s topic, and mark
>the question you find most
>intriguing.

• Is Timothy leary god? (only if you'r trippin')

• Is the war on drugs simply a means of the
government acting out a completely natural
form of self preservation ?