The legalization of marijuana

Opposing viewpoints

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Ch. 1. Has the prohibition against marijuana been successful? Drug prohibition has failed and needs to end / Marijuana prohibition policies simply need to be refined / The scandal of racist marijuana arrests--and what to do about it / Pot possession and the police / Marijuana prohibition is ineffective and unpopular / Two states defy feds with full marijuana legalization / Marijuana has harmful individual and social consequences / Marijuana has been used for centuries and is relatively safe / Research shows that marijuana use is safer than alcohol use / Marijuana use and alcohol use are dangerous for society / Marijuana trafficking and use are linked with crime / Marijuana legalization leads to a reduction in crime / Marijuana should be legalized for medical use / The marijuana plant should not be legalized for medical use / Patients should be allowed to grow marijuana plants for medicine / Research does not support the use of the marijuana plant as medicine / The federal government has ended the ban on medical marijuana / Congress should pass a bill to reclassify marijuana for medical use / Research supports continued prohibition of marijuana / There would be many negative effects from marijuana legalization / Marijuana should be fully legalized, not just decriminalized / Marijuana should not be legalized / Majority continues to support pot legalization in U.S. / Legalizing cannabis is more than just a yes or no decision

Abortion wars : a half century of struggle, 1950-2000

Introduction : abortion politics and history ; Pregnancy and power before Roe v. Wade, 1950-1970 / Beyond safe and legal : the lessons of Jane / Women versus Connecticut : conducting a statewide hearing on abortion / The rule of law, the rise of violence, and the role of morality : reframing America's abortion debate / Legal strategies for abortion rights in the twenty-first century / Electoral politics and abortion : narrowing the message / Punishing drug addicts who have babies : women of color, equality, and the right of privacy / African-American women and abortion / Abortion in the United States- legal but inaccessible / Rescuing the nation : Operation Rescue and the rise of anti-abortion militance / Toward coalition : the Reproductive Health Technologies Project / "We called it kindness" : establishing a feminist abortion practice / The twentieth-century gender battle : difficulties in perception / Life on the front lines / The crisis in abortion provision and pro-choice medical activism in the 1990s / Regendering the U.S. abortion debate / Psychologies of abortion : implications of a changing context / Disability rights and selective abortion