Scenario #1
Suppose you were in a position to reduce the prevalence of heroin abuse in your community by manipulating the price of heroin, either making it more or less available or artificially increasing or decreasing its street value.

Questions:

Would you decide to make heroin cheaper or more expensive? Describe your policy decision.

How do you justify your decision? Discuss what ramifications you believe your policy might have not only on future heroin use but also on future use of other illicit drugs.

Scenario #2

Given what we know about the impact of alcohol prohibition in the 1920s.

Questions:

What advantages and disadvantages might there be for a national legalization of marijuana?

How might this impact on the way that marijuana is classified on the existing schedules of controlled substances, according to the Controlled Substances Act of 1970?

Activity #1

Describe the criteria for listing a particular drug in the five-category system of scheduled controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, and provide two examples of drugs that are listed in each of the five categories.