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> Tompkins's conclusion
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>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
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>In the space below, write the
>title of your tentative topic
>(e.g.
>Internet addiction)
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>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.
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>Briefly state why you chose
>this topic.
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>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.
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>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.?
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>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?
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>
>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.
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>5. What is the difference between drug use and drug abuse?
Which drugs are most addicting and most likely to become abused and not just used?
If a drug is not bad for your body but distorts reality in your mind, is it just as bad?
How many deaths have come from hallucinogenic drugs?
How many deaths have come from O.D's compared to deaths from stupid decisions made when a person can't think clearly because they are high?
How much money is made in the growing, manufacturing, processing, selling, and storing drugs? Which is the most dangerous?
What drugs are the most dangerous to the body? the mind?
Which drugs are doorway drugs?(lead into use of other drugs?)
What does marajuanna do to the body in comparison to cigarettes?
What is the use of drugs in Eugene, Or?
Is drug use mostly hype?


If you want really good information on drug statistics and use and so forth, talk to Lynn Weissfield in the health building. She is the drug teacher and she is very approachable and can help you a lot!
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>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.
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