Quiz on "Legalization of Marijuana"




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There are two kinds of questions those with circles in front of the answers and those with squares in front of the answers.  The ones with circles have only one answer.  The ones with squares can have more than one answer but might only have one answer. Lets say a question has 2 right answers and you check the correct boxes but you also check two boxes that are the wrong answer. You will get a score of zero on the question even though 2 of the answers were correct. 

Jim Crow Laws required that

Blacks be treated worse than whites
Blacks pay higher taxes than whites
Blacks work on the plantation
Blacks be segregated from whites

Michelle Alexander believes that the war on drugs was a way that whites who don't like blacks control them.  What's wrong with her reasoning?

There's nothing wrong with her reasoning, it's how whites put blacks in jail.
Drug laws apply to blacks and whites. 
Black drug lords are powerful and have a lot of control
Drugs hurt blacks, if you hate blacks you'd let them take drugs.

  If marijuana is legal poor people can sell it and make lots of money.  Isn't that a good reason for marijuana to be legal?

Yes it is.  Not only will it make poor people richer it will make black people richer and help create equity.
No because the poor people who buy it spend their money and sometimes rob others to get the money.

If marijuana is legal it can be taxed and the tax money will be spent by the government to help the poor.  Isn't that a good reason for marijuana to be legal?

Yes, the government needs the money to help the poor.
No because marijuana causes mental problems and criminal behavior which means the government will have to spend money for more police and more rehabilitation programs and will spend more money than it gets in taxes.
No, marijuana makes people less productive so they will earn less money and the government will get less taxes if marijuana is legal. 

If marijuana is legal then people will buy from the legal stores and not the criminals and so there will be less money for criminals to buy guns with.
True, because people are more likely to buy from legal stores to avoid trouble.
False because the criminals sell marijuana more cheaply and if marijuana is legal they can grow a lot more and sell a lot more without getting into trouble.

A mother who tried to convince her son to stop taking marijuana asked him "Do you think the drug sellers will be at your funeral?"  What happened to her son?

He was fine and became a successful businessman selling drugs himself.
He died and the people who sold him the drugs made money off of selling the drugs to him.