Penalty Laws
In the state of California, being caught with this drug can lead to 6 hours of counseling and up to 24 hours of community service, and a possible fine of $100 for ages between 18-21.
What is marijuana?
This drug is commonly prescribed to treat ADHD.
What is Adderall?
What is California?
This commonly used medical and recreational drug is classified as schedule 1.
Besides tobacco, Americans are most addicted to this drug.
What is alcohol?
The maximum prison sentence for possession of all schedule 1 and 2 drugs, by federal law.
What is 40 years?
In 2020, this antibiotic was named the most prescribed drug in California.
What is Amoxicillin?
This state decriminalized small amounts of drugs such as heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine, and fentanyl.
What is Oregon?
The two presidents with the biggest impact on the war on drugs.
Who is Nixon and Reagan?
The medication that is designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose.
What is naloxone?
The trafficking of this drug can lead to a minimum penalty of 5 years and a maximum of 40 years for first-time offenders.
What is cocaine?
This schedule two drug is often prescribed to treat severe pain, especially after surgery and for advanced-stage cancer.
What is fentanyl?
In this state, the sale or delivery of 7 grams of marijuana, as a gift, is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 180 days of imprisonment and a fine of up to $2,000.
What is Texas?
The efficiency rate of this agency was less than one percent.
What is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency?
This drug takes hold of the receptors in the brain.
What is opioids?
Possesion of any quantity of this drug can result in a maximum penalty of one year in county jail and fines up to $20,000.
What is heroin?
In 2020, this was named the 8th most prescribed drug by state.
What is Xanax?
What is Alabama?
The repercussions from the war on drugs.
What is mass incarceration, corruption, political destabilization, violence, and human rights abuse?
(any are correct)
A more effective way to handle addiction.
What is rehabilitation?
This law was created to prevent sentencing disparities, such as that between a person being found with 5 grams of crack cocaine sentenced to the same amount of time as a person being found with 500 grams of powder cocaine.
What is the Fair Sentencing Act?
This drug is often used to tranquilize elephants and other large mammals, and is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl.
What is carfentanil?
In Tennessee, possession of any amount of methamphetamine is punishable by no less than this many days.
What is 180 days?
Due to this process, 25% of the world's prison population is from the U.S.
What is mass incarceration?
These three drugs are credited with the rise of overdoses in the U.S.
What are opioids, fentanyl, and carfentanil?