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[edit] Prohibition does not work
A report sponsored by the New York County Lawyers' Association, one of the largest local bar associations in the United States, argues on the subject of US drug policy:
“ Notwithstanding the vast public resources expended on the enforcement of penal statutes against users and distributors of controlled substances, contemporary drug policy appears to have failed, even on its own terms, in a number of notable respects. These include: minimal reduction in the consumption of controlled substances; failure to reduce violent crime; failure to markedly reduce drug importation, distribution and street-level drug sales; failure to reduce the widespread availability of drugs to potential users; failure to deter individuals from becoming involved in the drug trade; failure to impact upon the huge profits and financial opportunity available to individual "entrepreneurs" and organized underworld organizations through engaging in the illicit drug trade; the expenditure of great amounts of increasingly limited public resources in pursuit of a cost-intensive "penal" or "law-enforcement" based policy; failure to provide meaningful treatment and other assistance to substance abusers and their families; and failure to provide meaningful alternative economic opportunities to those attracted to the drug trade for lack of other available avenues for financial advancement.[1]
Moreover, a growing body of evidence and opinion suggests that contemporary drug policy, as pursued in recent decades, may be counterproductive and even harmful to the society whose public safety it seeks to protect. This conclusion becomes more readily apparent when one distinguishes the harms suffered by society and its members directly attributable to the pharmacological effects of drug use upon human behavior, from those harms resulting from policies attempting to eradicate drug use.[2]
With aid of these distinctions, we see that present drug policy appears to contribute to the increase of violence in our communities. It does so by permitting and indeed, causing the drug trade to remain a lucrative source of economic opportunity for street dealers, drug kingpins and all those willing to engage in the often violent, illicit, black market trade.
Meanwhile, the effect of present policy serves to stigmatize and marginalize drug users, thereby inhibiting and undermining the efforts of many such individuals to remain or become productive, gainfully employed members of society. Furthermore, current policy has not only failed to provide adequate access to treatment for substance abuse, it has, in many ways, rendered the obtaining of such treatment, and of other medical services, more difficult and even dangerous to pursue. ”

Argumentative essay

Argumentative essay
Miguel Manga Quintana

Pregnancy in older womens

The statistics confirm a phenomenon that has been growing for several years. Pregnancies in women over 35 are increasing year after year, and affect the European countries, notably Spain. Since the late 70s has significantly increased the rate infants born to women 35 to 50 years of age.
A healthy pregnancy depends greatly on the health status of women and the elderly have. If the woman is healthy, will certainly have a good pregnancy. The age limit is important because after 35 years, began the gradual increase risk for Down syndrome and other chromosomal abnormalities.

Considering the risks of pregnancy in women over 35 should be allowed to women 50 or even 60 years to be artificially inseminated?

On the one hand there is the fact that doctors, from a physiological point of view, argue that the best time, the best age for having a baby is between 20 and 30 years. But due to many and varied reasons, women are not wanting or able to follow this account. Having a child at an older age has its advantages, if we start from the point where the woman already has an emotional stability, social and economic so that the mother would have a better economic and employment situation, he knows what he wants and responsibility that is to take care of a child, so it is an aspect that promotes good parenting and child development.
In contrast to the positive aspects presented above, there are several arguments against the pregnancy advanced age. First the risk of chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus, such as Down syndrome increases with the passage of years for women. The success rate of pregnancies in women over 40 years is close to 20% or even lower in some cases, compared to 38% per cycle in those with 36 years, according to the experts say. Therefore with increasing age of women, fertility decreases, while increasing almost complications, both in the form of abortions and chromosomal abnormalities of the fetus.
In conclusion, despite the negative aspects that were submitted earlier, the statistics confirm that every year the women take longer to become pregnant, and although the risk is greatest, most pregnancies do not present serious complications during pregnancy or during the birth.
I think the scientific development of the health sciences has helped reduce the risk posed by women who become pregnant and are between 50 and 60 years old, and therefore should not be denied artificial fertilization as a way to have a child.