Toward a Policy on Drugs

Narrow topic:

A policy to minimize drug abuse.

Thesis:

I do not think that either approach take sufficient account of the social realities of drug abuse...
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Expectations:

Discuss
a. Criminal justice system
b. Try a different approach to drugs
c. Refer to other countries situation and how they deal with it
d. Explanation of why our current policy doesn't work

Subtopics and sub points:

- Current status of war on drugs
a. Define usage
b. Define punishments
c. How war on drugs should work and why it doesn't
d. Showing the economic implications of our course of action

- Legalizing as a solution
a. Deregulation
b. Decriminalization
c. Medicinal drug trade

- Crime
a. Correlation between violence and crime
b. Arguing against correlation

Conclusion:

Before we offer a solution, we need to understand the problem better