The Normative Discourse
Key Concepts
Political Science
US Marijuana Laws
Marijuana as Medicine
100
Nasty, cold, solitary, brutish and short
What is Hobbes' definition of the state of nature?
100
The capacity to shape outcomes
What is the definition of power?
100
Discusses values allocation and the benefits and burdens of those allocations
What is political theory?
100
Established in 1930 to enforce the Harrison Act
What is the Narcotics Bureau?
100
A tincture (extract) developed from the cannibis plant to control gran mal seizures.
What is Charlotte's Web?
200
A subfield within Political Science which studies ethical questions.
What is Political Theory?
200
Power involving physical means including violence.
What is force?
200
Includes discussions and debates about theory, structures, processes, change and the future.
What is the "political world"?
200
An anti-marijuana propaganda film also called "Tell Your Children."
What is "Reefer Madness"?
200
Cannabidiol
What is CBD the abbreviation for?
300
A dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon
What is Plato's Allegory of the Cave?
300
Also known as governments claiming for themselves ultimate authority within their boundaries.
What are states?
300
Food impurities, overcrowding, race relations and epidemics.
What did people worry about in 1900?
300
Found that the "practice of smoking marijuana did not lead to addiction in the medical sense of the word"
What is the La Guardia Report of 1945?
300
Alcohol
What is marijuana commonly compared to?
400
The purpose of the state is to promote justice.
What is Plato's position on the "role of the state"?
400
The non-physical power in which the agent using power conceals its use.
What is manipulation?
400
Discusses the direction, rate and controllability of progress.
What is the definition of "political change"?
400
Advocates through lobbying and litigation for the legalization of marijuana.
What is NORML - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
400
Five ounces
What is legal amount of medical marijuana that can be purchased in Colorado?
500
Implies the discussion of values, ethics and societal norms.
What are normative questions?
500
They create different divisions and levels of government and divide power among those levels and divisions.
What federal states (governments)?
500
The more independent we become, the more we recognize the shared interests and requirement of working together to meet our needs.
What is "the problem of interdependence"?
500
Combined the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement and the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence in 1973
What is the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)?
500
A reduction in suicides
What is potential public health benefit from pot legalization?
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