Topic recap sheet n°3 : Changing habits, mentalities, and legislation
cannabis in Colorado for example cannot take it back to Arizona, which still bans it. It creates some legal and medical aberrations. - Springsteen's Berlin concert ...
Topic recap sheet n°3 : Changing habits, mentalities, and legislation (aka “Sex, Drugs, and Rock’n’roll”)
Content/ Documents : Pictures : pills in pot states / ”we want beer” / “lips and liquor” Text: I made my son cannabis cookies Translation : How condoms conquered America Videos: Medical Marijuana now legal in majority of US states (Voice of America) The US prison system is broken Civilization / culture : Prohibition in the US / How Bruce Springsteen cracked the Berlin wall
”we want beer” : A demonstration / placards ‘we want beer/weed’ / women / asking to repeal the 18th amendment / asking for prohibition to end
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“lips and liquor” : women / angry / placard “lips that touch liquor shall not touch our lips”
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pills in pot states : medical prescriptions to ease pain / fewer drugs doses prescribed for different diseases in states where medical marijuana is legal
Meaning : -
link between end of prohibition and legalization of cannabis : equivalent situations?
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government and protest : role of the federal government, and legislators. Arguments are also medical ; cannabis seems to ease pain and symptoms of depression (fewer pain-killers and anxiolytics prescribed.)
Vocabulary English Relief Pot To bribe -
Liver Seldom Regulation A strain of cannabis Clemency
French Soulagement cannabis Verser un pot de vin / soudoyer Foie Rarement Les règles Une variété de cannabis Clémence
English Low-level crime
French
An inmate
Un délit L’ivresse Un détenu
To be willing to Gut disease Painkiller ‘Big bucks’ (familiar)
Avoir la volonté de Maladie intestinale Anti-douleur Gros profits
To commute a sentence
Réduire (une peine)
Drunkenness
Recent events, historical & cultural references mentioned in the documents, questions raised by the topic, debates: -
Prohibition : 1919 (ratification of the 18th Amendment) / 1933 (21st amendment, abolishing the 18th)
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Legalization of medical marijuana (Arkansas in 2016, joining the club of 28 states) / medical use of illegal drugs: as it is illegal in 23 states, a patient that gets medical cannabis in Colorado for example cannot take it back to Arizona, which still bans it. It creates some legal and medical aberrations.
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Springsteen’s Berlin concert in 1988 : the first brick out of the wall. First Western musician to be allowed to play in East Germany. The authorities hoped the concert would appease the growing tensions, but it had the opposite effect : it made East Berliners want more freedom. One year later, the wall fell.
Key expressions (grammar, syntax, translation difficulties) - to pass a law : adopter une loi - to apply for a job : postuler pour un emploi - the state laws loosen : les lois s’assouplissent - he gave us a waver : il nous a donné le feu vert - asking to repeal a law : demander l’abrogation d’une loi - a law-abiding citizen (= someone who obeys the law) - to ease the pain (= soulager la douleur) - to enforce the law (= faire respecter la loi) - two thirds of them / 2 people out of 3 / 2 in 3 people -
Document prepared with great care by : Creusel Tiphanie and Teillon Constantin
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