Assignment:
Examine your career path as a criminal justice professional over the next five (5) years and identify your career goals. Discuss how your work and experience both inside and outside the program will help you to reach your goals. Identify ways in which you will draw on those experiences when interviewing for a new position to market yourself and your expertise. Then, examine your strengths and weaknesses and outline your strategies to leveraging your strengths and addressing your weaknesses.
Then, respond to the posts of at least two (2) other peers with comments that continue to drive the discussion.
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When the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available for the public, will you participate in being vacinated?
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Signaling what could be a result of a surge of progressive legislators in Congress, the House on Friday passed the most sweeping bill ever aimed at decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level by removing cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act.
Advocates of the measure worked for years behind the scenes with congressional leaders to present the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment & Expungement (MORE) Act, legislation that not only deschedules cannabis but also creates a pathway to erase nonviolent federal marijuana convictions. The bill will travel to the Senate, where its future is uncertain.
Arrests and convictions for the selling and usage of marijuana largely affects Black communities and other communities of color jailed and disenfranchised disproportionately. A 2020 study by the ACLU concluded: "Black people are 3.64 times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana possession, notwithstanding comparable usage rates."
"The MORE Act is right now the most sweeping marijuana justice bill in Congress, to ever be considered by Congress," Adesuyi told NewsOne. "And it builds on the Marijuana Justice Act and includes way more provisions around equity, around eliminating collateral consequences for convictions and really taking steps to repair the harm of criminalization of marijuana." The bill features a series of reformative provisions including a tax proposal of five percent on marijuana products to establish grant programs toward record expungement processes, employment programs, reentry guidance, youth resources and establishing licensing programs in states and local governments that impact the most disadvantaged communities affected by marijuana criminalization. It would also prevent the denial of social services resources for those with marijuana convictions, allow those prosecuted an opportunity for record expungement and would protect immigrants at risk of deportation or citizenship denial over a marijuana infraction.
https://newsone.com/4058786/house-passes-landmark-bill-to-decriminalize-marijuana/
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