Sunday, August 10, 2014
Early Education
On Friday August 8, 2014, Blogger
Adela Moreno posted an article, An Early Start at Education for All, on her
blog called Forgotten Alamo. In her article, Adela argues that an early start on education is very crucial for a child’s future success. I completely
agree with Adela. In one of my previous blogs called Clash over Education, I explained
that early education such as Pre-K and Head-Start are very necessary and
effective in the development of education. Texas should definitely invest more
time and money in early education because cutting funding will only hurt these
children in the future. Early education should be available to all children regardless
of their parents’ financial qualifications. Just like Adela parents, my parents
also cheated the system in order for my siblings and me to have an early start
in school because they know that children are most eager and ready to learn
when they are young. Adela’s argument is very relevant in today’s society.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Marijuana Vs Texas
So I wrote a blog on July 24, 2014 called Legalize Marijuana Already. In that blog, I emphasized on how Texas Legislative should
legalize marijuana use or at least start with medical marijuana usage; and also
decriminalizing marijuana possession penalties. Legalization of marijuana is a
very controversial topic because it has many active supporters and
anti-supporters. Heather Fazio, Texas Political Director for the Marijuana
Policy Project (MPP), fully supports the complete legalization of marijuana. In an
article called Texas Republicans Are in a War Over Weed, she states that most
states have legalized marijuana through ballot initiatives and that marijuana won’t
be legal anytime soon in Texas because it goes through the state legislature
which are dominated by strong-willed conservatives who oppose marijuana usage. Heather Fazio and
many other supporters’ believe that marijuana possession should not be
considered a crime. According to the Marijuana Policy Project, there are more
arrest for marijuana possession each year than for all violent crimes combined,
and 87% of these are for possession and not for sale or manufacture. The law enforcement and state government should be tough on the real crimes
where victims are in danger and not on petty nonviolent pot offenders.
Some Texas office-holders and politicians are
resistant to changes of marijuana legalization because legalizing marijuana can
potentially increase black market sales of the drug by the cartels and
negatively impact public safety. Whether marijuana is legal or illegal, the drug cartels will still have their businesses up and running. Anti-supporters of decriminalization and
legalization also argue that there are no means to test impaired drivers to
determine how mentally and physically affected they are and can be harmful to
the public safety. If people believe that marijuana is this dangerous then they
should also make tobacco and alcohol illegal because these drugs are also
harmful to the “public safety.” I've heard numerous stories of people overdosing on alcohol, but haven't heard any on marijuana. The
first step in convincing the Texas legislature is to allow marijuana product
testing and research to be conducted and show that marijuana should not be
characterized as a Schedule I drug such as heroin and LSD, and be reclassified to
a lower schedule drug.
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