1. Why Are Drugs Illegal? I want to explore how certain drugs became illegal (including alcohol) and why controlled substances became controlled.
2. What are people's opinions on drugs? What are UNCSA's opinion on drugs? How do people learn about drugs?
I have been doing rough interviews with people exploring questions that would work with a larger population and hopefully I get to a place where anyone would feel comfortable answering my questions. I spoke recently with Sarah Lawrence, a woman for institutional research here and we briefly discussed the issue of binge drinking on campus. Although the crime stats don't agree with her concern, she finds that the biggest health concern is binge drinking and the recent CORE survey was to evaluate the current scope of the issue. On a sidebar, I hope to get the opinion from at least someone high up in admin that they believe marijuana is far less harmful than the typically abused alcohol. I also still am pushing to get an interview with members of the police and legal area of UNCSA/Forsyth County. Lastly, there is an interesting view on how media effects the public view on drugs. It is easy for many to believe that the general view on drugs coincides with the media while in fact the media has a very biased story-driven agenda, rather than what the story on drugs needs to be based on, a health-based agenda. (And definitely not a political agenda)
3. War on Freedom. At what point did we say that the government can create a totalitarian stance on happiness, consumption of goods, and private life of its citizens.