Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
Legalize it
1. Drug Policy
Decriminalization
Medical
Legalization
2. District Attorney Seth Williams
“We have to be smart
on crime. We can't
declare a war on
drugs by going after
the kid who's smoking
a joint on 55th Street.
We have to go after
the large traffickers.”
$200, $300 dollar fines
for less than 30 grams
of marijuana, no
3. DA Williams' Comment Sparked
Advocates Imaginations
We are not decriminalizing
marijuana -- any effort like that
would be one for the legislature
to undertake. The penalty
available for these minimal
amount offenses remains exactly
the same. What we are doing is
properly dealing with cases
involving minimal amounts of
marijuana in the most efficient
and cost effective process
possible.
Those arrested for these offenses will still be restrained, identified and processed by police in police
custody. They will still have to answer to the charges, but they will be doing so in a speedier and
more efficient process. We want to use valuable court resources in the best way possible and we
believe that means giving minor drug offenders the option of getting into diversionary programs,
get drug education or enter drug treatment centers. Again we are NOT decriminalizing marijuana,
and the penalty for these offenses remains the same."
4. Decriminalization
To reduce or abolish criminal penalties for an act
that was previously deemed illegal
Most commonly it replaces a misdemeanor
charge (i.e. w/ criminal record and court
proceedings) with disorderly conduct (a minimal
fine. $100 in massachusetts, for example)
6. Regulated Markets?
Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v. Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was
a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled on June 6,
2005 that under the Commerce Clause of the United States
Constitution, which allows the United States Congress "To regulate
Commerce... among the several States," Congress may ban the use
of cannabis even where states approve its use for medicinal purposes.
7. The government Medical Marijuana
contends that
consuming
one's locally
grown
marijuana for
medical
purposes
affects the
interstate
market of
marijuana,
and hence
that the
federal
government
may regulate
—and prohibit
—such
consumption.
8. The Interstate Commerce Clause
The government contended that consuming one's locally grown
marijuana for medical purposes affects the interstate market of
marijuana, and hence that the federal government may regulate—
and prohibit—such consumption.
Obama opposes
federal government
intervention if state
law allows medical
consumption;
DEA raids in Colorado
and California have
still occurred
9. “I think consumption is down. But that's only one of the
measures as to whether or not we're getting a handle on
the drug problem.”
Eric Holder
“It will not be a priority to use federal resources to
prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers
who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana,
but we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind
claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that
are clearly illegal."
"The answer is, no, I don't think
that is a good strategy to grow
our economy." -Barack Obama
11. When there's a demand...
The study estimates that marijuana
production, at a value of $35.8 billion,
exceeds the combined value of corn
($23.3 billion) and wheat ($7.5 billion) .
14. Locke's State of War
It's always difficult to pinpoint specific
To protect property factors that carry the lion's share of the
rights, people sign blame for gun violence in Philadelphia,
but a few generally seem to rise to the
social contracts with top. These include open-air, illicit drug
markets, alcohol outlets, and availability
governments to of illegal firearms. Illegal drugs likely
relate to violence brought about by
provide an impartial trafficking and, to some degree, actual
judge in adjudicating usage of illegal drugs. Illegal guns and
the way these guns get into criminal
the affairs. They enter hands is also likely important.
this contract to -Charles Branas, PhD, PhD, Assistant
prevent having to Professor of Epidemiology and Senior
Scholar in the CCEB and Lead
enter the state of war Epidemiologist in the Firearm and Injury
Center at Penn (FICAP)
to protect one's
possessions.
15. John Locke's Right To Property
“If the innocent honest man
must quietly quit all he has,
“He that so employed
for peace sake, to him who his pains about any
will lay violent hands upon of the spontaneous
it, I desire it may be products of
considered, what a kind of nature...by placing
peace there will be in the
world, which consists only any of his labor on
in violence and rapine; and them did thereby
which is to be maintained acquire a propriety
only for the benefit of in them.”
robbers and oppressors.”
16. Statement from ONDCP Director R. Gil Kerlikowske
Why Marijuana Legalization Would Compromise Public
Health and Public Safety
“You all know the impacts of marijuana in
this state– from the proliferation of
marijuana being grown on public lands
and indoor grows, to the negative effects
of marijuana use among youth, the
increasing influence of violent gangs on
the marijuana trade, and the problems
associated with medical marijuana
dispensaries.”
“Controls and prohibitions help to keep
prices higher, and higher prices help
keep use rates relatively low.”
“In the United States, illegal drugs already
cost $180 billion a year in health care,
lost productivity, crime, and other
expenditures.”
18. "Law enforcement will never solve
this problem. We will never arrest our
way out of this problem”- Police
Commissioner Sylvester Johnson
"We're not going to stop locking
people up" -Lt. Frank Vanore
19. Incarceration
Executive Office of the
President, Office of
National Drug Control
Policy Incarceration of
offenders for drug- related crimes is
the largest cost component of drug
abuse at $39 billion in 2002, or
about 21.7 percent of total costs.
These costs rose from $17.9 billion in
1992 to $30 billion in 2002. Costs
increased by 8.1 percent annually
between 1992 and 2002 due in almost
equal measures to increases in the
number of incarcerated drug
offenders and wage increases.
20. Operation Safe Streets
Operation Safe Streets
Developed in May 2002, the
purpose of this Mayoral initiative is
to build coalitions to end the
violence, disorder and human
tragedies associated with the sale
of illegal drugs and drug addiction.
33. "Prohibition goes beyond
the bounds of reason in
that it attempts to control
a man's appetite by
legislation and makes a
crime out of things that
are not crimes. A
prohibition law strikes a
blow at the very
principles upon which
our government was
founded."
-Abraham Lincoln
