Prohibition (drugs) Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Prohibition (drugs).

  • 2 Student Essays
  • 8 Encyclopedia Articles
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Encyclopedia Articles (8)

678 words, approx. 3 pages
Drug Laws: Financial Analysis in Enforcement The application of financial investigative techniques to sophisticated forms of CRIME began decades ago in campaigns to bring underworld bosses to justice.... Read more
1,066 words, approx. 4 pages
Drug Laws, Prosecution Of Drug arrests in the United States involve a wide variety of controlled substances, including MARIJUANA, CO-CAINE, HEROIN, PHENCYCLIDINE (PCP), and others, and a number of dif... Read more
2,910 words, approx. 10 pages
Policy Alternatives This section includes two articles that introduce the reader to some of the issues surrounding public debate on the decriminalization of, or the legalization of, drugs. Prohibition... Read more
805 words, approx. 3 pages
Treatment in the Federal Prison System The federal prison system of the United States has made repeated efforts to treat drug-abusing prisoners. The issue was first raised in 1928 by the chairman of t... Read more
2,341 words, approx. 8 pages
Law and Policy: History Of, in the United States Americans have always used drugs that affect the mind, especially alcohol. And for as long as there has been drug use, there have been attempts to regu... Read more
1,927 words, approx. 7 pages
Law and Policy: Modern Enforcement, Prosecution, and Sentencing The enforcement of U.S. drug and alcohol laws has been a major priority for police and prosecutors since the 1980s. Law enforcement has ... Read more
62,028 words, approx. 207 pages
In August 1999, federal agents announced that they had broken up one of America’s twenty largest drug rings in a yearlong operation dubbed “Operation Southwest Express.” In all, agen... Read more
31,877 words, approx. 107 pages
The prohibition of drugs is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of the United States. During the nineteenth century, the federal government applied a laissez-faire philosophy to drugs and as... Read more