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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind Henry Hobhouse See book keywords and concepts

To legalize hard drugs would halve the number of crimes in some countries and halve the prison population. The alternative is to be truly severe about drugs and it is a fact that a drug-free city-state like Singapore, though denied other freedoms, is far less ridden by other crime than cities where drugs are in evidence. Though Singapore has no exact equivalent amongst other cities, the point is valid. But Singapore, like a few other countries, has the death penalty for some drug offences. * The choice, when it comes to hard drugs, is fairly simple.

Prescription drugs are connected to school shootings and other violence, yet more drugs are touted as the solution Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Why are we the country with the greatest prison population in the world? It might be the same reason we are the nation with the worst health problems in the world. They are connected, you know. People who are unhealthy are unhappy, moody and can display aggressive, violent behavior. Change their diets and you can turn many criminals into normal people. Not all of them, of course, but a large number.

The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant Rowan Robinson See book keywords and concepts

About 16 percent of the federal prison population were drug offenders in 1970 and by 1994 the proportion had risen to 62 percent, and was expected to reach 72 percent by 1997. While the drug war has fueled a major crisis in the prison system it has had little effect on the drug problem: the national prison population has doubled since 1982, and even tripling prison capacity would not A QUESTIONABLE VALUE SYSTEM. PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL BRIDGES. cause significant reduction in drug availability. In 1994 about two hundred thousand people were in state and federal prisons for drug offenses.

The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children Carol Simontacchi See book keywords and concepts

Stephen Schoenthaler of the California State University, who has written a number of research papers on nutrition-related violence, strongly believes that antisocial behaviors can be greatly reduced, both in a prison population and in the population at large, just by making changes in the diet. "We have demonstrated that vitamin-mineral supplementation raises low blood vitamin concentrations," Schoenthaler says, "corrects abnormal brain function owing to low blood vitamin status, and ultimately produces better behavior and less violence among juvenile delinquents.

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Congress passed a series of crime and drug bills in the 1980s, imposing severe mandatory minimum sentences that soon caused a tripling of the nation's prison population. Drastic reverberations affected police work, lawyering, prosecution, prison standards, the judiciary, legislative intent, correctional theory, and public attitudes about hemp. A commission established in 1963 under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy had urged for repeal of the severe mandatory sentences imposed by the Boggs Act and other legislation in the 1950s.

While the drug war has fueled a major crisis in the prison system it has had little effect on the drug problem: the national prison population has doubled since 1982, and even tripling prison capacity would not A QUESTIONABLE VALUE SYSTEM. PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL BRIDGES. cause significant reduction in drug availability. In 1994 about two hundred thousand people were in state and federal prisons for drug offenses.

Rather, a Boston Globe study of the eastern counties of Massachusetts found that first-time offenders accounted for 26 percent of the drug-offender prison population in 1994, up from just 2 percent in 1989. These small fry, in fact, often serve more time than the hard-core dealers. Why? Because of the rule by which agencies may seize drug-offenders' assets. Agencies have come to depend on these assets for a staggering 12 percent of their funding, even though, according to the Globe, only 43 percent of seized assets actually go toward fighting the war on drugs.

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How else can you explain why the chronically poor, infirm elderly, and prison population often have access to state-of-the-art surgical and drug therapies, while a steadily employed blue-collar worker who cannot afford health insurance has access to nothing except the emergency room? This is the health care edition of the split Congress, the traditional chocolate versus vanilla politics of American life that forces us into electoral choices that most of us do not want to make.

Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H. See book keywords and concepts

Failure to deal adequately with mental health has contributed to our burgeoning prison population. And debt from health care is now the second highest reason for personal bankruptcy. The pursuit of profit has assumed primacy over the pursuit of what is best for people. Why the disconnect? Where have we failed? Does anybody care? Our health care system—or, more precisely, nonsystem— has evolved into a monster, a disorganized, overly complex creature that robs people of their health, their money and their dignity.

Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat Attention Deficit Disorder Without Drugs Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

One of the psychologists, who had an interest in ADD, pointed out that most of the people he had seen in the prison population probably started out with ADD symptoms, but by the time they reached him, the ADD was concealed by many other problems. Nevertheless, we still contend that brain dysregulation causes ADD and its sometime-companions, aggressive and violent behaviors, and drug and alcohol abuse problems. A dysregulated life often starts early and is not restricted to city slums. Crimes involving juvenile offenders do not take place only in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, or Atlanta.

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