Terms
Important term (Hint: big part of the resolution's wording) that essentially means illegal to possess
What is "illicit?"
Marijuana cultivation began in the U.S. in the 1600s with the fiber of the plant being used to make all these things except which (ropes, ship sails, shoe laces).
What are shoe laces?
On the pro side of this topic, this is your stance on drug legalization in the US
What is "in favor of" or "support it"!?
On the con side of this topic, this is your stance on drug legalization in the U.S.
What is "against it"!?
The judge who just underwent Senate hearings to the the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
Term that means the criminal repercussions of an act are being rolled back or taken away
What is "decriminalization"?
A school program created in the 1980s for police officers to teach kids about the harmful effects of drugs
What is D.A.R.E?
Legal drug businesses help the economy by adding these
What are jobs? (Would also accept taxes on legal drug businesses).
A mild drug leading to the use of a harder drug maybe be referred to as this?
What is a gateway drug?
A popular game where you guess a five letter word that was recently acquired by the NY Times
What is wordle?
A drug that speeds up the central nervous system
What is a "stimulant?"
By the time George Bush (the first one) left office- this was the number of SWAT led drug raids in the U.S. each year
(Choices: 40,000, 50,000, or 60,000)
What is 40,000?
The main tenet of the health argument for legalizing drugs
Illicit drugs are more likely to be not pure (sketchy) and could cause serious harm to the user where a regulated, legal drug would not
The main tenet of the health argument on the con side of the case
What is drug overdose is deadly?
This actress plays Mary Jane (MJ) in Spiderman: No Way Home, one of the highest grossing films of the year
Who is Zendaya?
Even if a drug is legalized or decriminalized that doesn't mean it won't be subject to THESE, measures performed by the Federal Government to keep users safe
What are "regulations?"
In this year President Nixon officially declared a "war on drugs"
*Hint–it's in the 1970's
What is 1971?
The word for the type of illegal transportation groups that bring drugs into the country that there would be no need for if drugs were legalized
What is a cartel?
According to the Dept of Health and Human Services, the number of people who died from opioid overdoes in America in 2019 was in this range:
20-50k, 60-80K, 100-120K
What is 60-80K? *70,630 lives lost
Choices: Encanto (Lin Manuel Miranda), No Time to Die (Billy Eilish), and King Richard (Beyonce)
What is "No Time to Die?"
Bill Clinton's legislation that created repercussions targeted minor drug offenses
Hint: It contains a baseball reference
What is the "3 Strikes" Law? (or the "3 Strikes You're Out" law)
The state in this list where marijuana is LEGAL for recreational and medical use: (Nevada, Georgia, Hawaii, or Texas)
What is Nevada? (Marijuana is currently legal in Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia)
Current drug regulation policies often lead to racist practices. According to the NAACP, African Americans are incarcerated for drug use at __ times the rate of white Americans using the same drugs
(Hint: Less than 10, more than 1)
What is 5?
The symptom listed here that is NOT a possible negative effect of cocaine use (slugishness, heart attack, paranoia, decreased appetite)
What is slugishness? Cocaine is a stimulant.
This is the longest bone in the human body
What is the femur? (Thigh bone)