Text #5 Should Drugs be legalized (05/05/11)
There is the discussing whether drugs should be legalized to safe human lives and to have a new economic product or not. The question is: “would the criminals simply find new ways of producing counterfeits and more dangerous varieties?” (Source 2). I want to give you some quotes of people which were responding a BBC show about this theme:
“I cannot bear the thought of my 14-year-old telling me I cannot stop him "because it's legal". Imagine that scenario! “ (Melanie Uren, Republic of Ireland; Source 2 )
“People would still commit crime to feed their habit.” (Michael, York, UK; Source 2)
“The problem is that we have never had a proper debate on the issue.” (Roger, UK; Source 2)
“Legalizing drugs would be a profound attack on public health.” (Mario, London; Source 2)
Now I am asking: Have the people who support legalizing Drugs ever thought about the problems these substances are causing? Have these people ever thought about the consequences? Probably not, maybe they just thought about the next intoxication.
In my opinion legalizing is not the best idea this people ever had, it is a very bad intention and irresponsible!
1. Increasing number of drug abusers
I think you all have to agree that there will be a lot more addicted persons if we would legalize drugs. If you think some people would stop taking drugs because they don’t have the kick to do something illegal anymore you probably are right with some. But how many? 5%? I think the rate of the people which would start taking drugs is much bigger.
2. Drug tourists
My next point is that many Drug tourists would come to Portugal, which aren’t just consuming 5 Gramm.
Like you can see in the Netherlands there will come foreign dealer which try to smuggle drugs and foreign drug consumer can cause social and criminal problems.
3. Crimes
There will still be a criminal drug scene, even if some supporters are arguing that criminals would lose a lot of money. Of course that point is true, just like the possibility for the state to earn more money due to the new taxes.
But just think what could happen if the big drug dealers would lose their “jobs”. Maybe they would commit new crimes, like kidnapping, and so on. Sounds impossible and crazy? I say, just think about it.
I think “Traffic violations and accidents are also likely to increase” (Source 3, Cons, Increase in Crime)
4. Quality
Do you think there will be a better quality just because the drugs are legalized? Is there always a better quality just because things are legal? BSE of our beefs, flavor enhancer in our food or production fault of vital machines. There always will be problems of quality with commercial products which should be as cheap as possible.
5. Separation of the market
Some persons just want to legalize cannabis and say that costumers – if there would exist a separation of the market – would not come in contact with other drugs than cannabis.
At first you should know that the most dealers just offer a few drugs, probably just one. This means that there already exist a separated market and you already can buy cannabis without problems.
And second if you search for a special drug you can find it.
6. Healthcare system
It is possible that the healthcare system can’t care for all the addicted persons and will collapse. Maybe cannabis itself isn’t that bad, but the joints which are used to consume cannabis consist of 95% tobacco. So there will be many more people which come to nicotine addiction though drugs.
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Text #4 Just another day? (05/04/11)
I was quietly minding my own business and waiting for the next customer when this group of young people went past my stall. I wonder who they were.
I mean ‘look at them’ they really seem to be at the wrong place, all of them wearing the newest trends and expensive clothes. They just look like typical children of the city, who never even thought about us.
But what are they doing here, they don’t look very happy to be here and I also they aren’t very confident, so why are they here? Probably they are just doing a study visit, but why here? They could spend their money to see something more interesting, something with real highlights. But what do we have here? We don’t have a museum, we don’t have anything with an important history or things which could be interesting for tourists, we just have our family, our neighborhood and how we help each other, but I don’t think they will get it. I don’t think they will understand in which conditions we are living in or what chances our children will have to be someone.
But here they are again. Something changed, I don’t know what it is, they just look different than a few hours ago. I see them walking around more confidently they still don’t look really happy, just surprised. Maybe they have realized what is going on here maybe they got it.
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Text #3 After Dark – Haruki Murakami (04/11/10)
6:52 A.M.
Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is a gigantic metropolis waking up. Commuter trains of many colors move in all directions, transporting people from place to place. Each of those und transportation is a human being with a different face and mind, and at the same time each is a nameless part of the collective entity. Each is simultaneously a self contained whole and a mere part. Handling this dualism of their ´s skillfully and advantageously, they perform their morning rituals with deftness and precision (…).
The new sun pours new light on the city streets. The glass of high-rise buildings sparkles blindingly. There is not a speck of cloud to be seen in the sky, just smog hanging along the horizon. The cresce takes the form of a silent white monolith, a message floating in the western sky. A news helicopter dances through the sky like a nervous insect images of traffic conditions back to the stat trying to enter the city have already started lining up at the tollbooths of the Metropolitan Expressway. Chilly shadows still lie over many streets sandwiched between tall buildings. Most of last night’s memories remain there untouched.
Our point of view departs from the sky centre and shifts to an area above a quiet suburban residential neighbourhood. Below us stand rows of two-storey houses with yards. From above, all the houses look much alike – similar incomes, similar family make-up. A new dark blue Volvo proudly reflects the morning sun. A golf practice net set up on one lawn. Morning papers freshly delivered. People calling out to each other. Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper…
The night has begun to open up at last. There will be time until the next darkness arrives.
Diogo and I worked together at this text; this means that the following answers are created from both of us.
Part 1:
The meaning of an individual person in the collective entity.
Entity – something that has a single separate and independent existence
Part 2:
The silent night turning in the not yet totally awake city life.
Monolith – a lagre pillar made from once piece or mass of stone stand by itself
Part 3:
Every new day is like a blank sheet of paper, possible to turn into everything.
The whole text wants to show us that we are all individual people, if you are known this is recognized, but if you just see the whole everybody is like a nohing.
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Text #2 The litter problem (28/10/10)
Have you ever seen a person throughing his liter on the floor instead of putting it in the litter box, which is one meter away? Have they ever thought about the problems we have with litter? Have you ever thought about these problems? I want to write about it.
Humans produce to much litter everyday, the rubbish tips are full and more and more litter gets burnt, which is really bad for the environment, or dumped into the ocean. The landscape we use for rubbish tips could be used for agriculture or houses. It also destroys the habitat of millions of animals.
When it is raining toxic parts of the litter are getting in our drinking water or in the water we use to water our food. The litter is getting in our food. We get ill because of wasting our earth. I hope you see that the litter problem is no joke.
My solution for this problem is really easy: Recycling. We could save so many recourses and less space would be needed for rubbish tips. And the good thing about recycling is, that it is so easy; just selecting litter at home can help or bring your own shopping bags or drink out of a reusable bottle instead if a can. There are many possibilities we can use, so don’t waste time and start saving our environment.
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Text #1 Activity C – Saving our Environment (13/10/10)
Text #1 Activity C – Saving our Environment (13/10/10)
Everybody speaks about saving our environment and that this is really necessary, because if we do not, our world is in danger, but just a few prople are really thinking how we can save the environment, which possibilities we have and how we can use them. If I would have enough money, I would promote ‘Recycling’ and ‘Regenerative energies’.
I think we have nearly infinite possibilities using energies of our earth, which do not pollute the environment that much. Just like ‘Solar-energy’, ‘Geothermic’, ‘Wind’ or ‘Tides’ and that are not all.
For example: We would not need so many air-conditioning if we would use ‘Geothermic’ to cool our houses. And heating would needless raw materials if we would also use ‘Geothermic’ to heat our houses constant at 10°C. You can also use ‘Solar-energy’’ to heat water or generate electricity.
‘Wind’ and ‘Tides’ have huge energy recourses we can use to generate electricity. I hope you see why I want to promote ‘Regenerative energies’, we would not be forced to use petroleum, nuclear power, etc.
My second point would be ‘Recycling’, because it is easy to do and things like the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ would not grow anymore. We would not have to use energies to create new bottles, we could just use the old ones. A big problem is also that we use too much plastic bags, we could use them more than one thime or even better use fabric-bags.
For example: We would not need so many air-conditioning if we would use ‘Geothermic’ to cool our houses. And heating would needless raw materials if we would also use ‘Geothermic’ to heat our houses constant at 10°C. You can also use ‘Solar-energy’’ to heat water or generate electricity.
‘Wind’ and ‘Tides’ have huge energy recourses we can use to generate electricity. I hope you see why I want to promote ‘Regenerative energies’, we would not be forced to use petroleum, nuclear power, etc.
My second point would be ‘Recycling’, because it is easy to do and things like the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ would not grow anymore. We would not have to use energies to create new bottles, we could just use the old ones. A big problem is also that we use too much plastic bags, we could use them more than one thime or even better use fabric-bags.
