Ethical Issues In Criminal Justice

The University of Guelph-Humber Justice studies program instills to students that professionalism is to follow student conduct in order to succeed in school. Justice is a program that the topic drugs is something fearful and to be swept under the carpet, rather investigating the fundamental aspects and benefits to marijuana. Marijuana is seen as a drug which drives and controls human impulses and is an ethical issue that cannot be an effective treatment. As my years of studying are near to the end I have reached the ethical dilemma of whether to continue recreational marijuana use while be in the criminal Justice field. The reason I participate in recreational marijuana is because it is what I find it helps me flourish and relax when engaging in social activities.

I believe I engage in this “criminal behaviour” as well in order to help cope with emotional distress of losing my father and mentor.

After smoking a couple times I began to enjoy and believed that I still am able to perform tasks. I volunteer with the department of security at Humber college and am an active volunteer with the school. I believe that to be considered a good person is through considerable and virtuous acts which conflicts with if society deems marijuana as a noble and honest act. My constructed perspective of what a police officer is someone who has integrity and respects the laws. I truly believe that I work hard and train in order to prove to my colleagues that something that is not deemed as a norm is not harmful and beneficial to the person's well-being. The theoretical perspective that will analyze the ethical dilemma of recreational marijuana use will be with virtue ethics looking at Aristotle's belief of human actions are based with reasoning and deontological ethics arguing Kant’s reasoning towards determining whether the act is good or bad is in the intention of doing

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The important part to analyze in this situation is that I’m blind to see whether my recreational marijuana use affects the integrity of my professionalism. Aristotle , believed that human function is based through reasoning which finds it imperative to make individual choices to develop our well-being and contribute to good things. “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” While there is a continuation to the topic of legalization is an example to moral relativism where only various social rules are accepted. The Controlled Drug and Substances act of Canada is something constructed to give moral direction towards the hatred against marijuana use. There is only a certain demographic that justify marijuana use is morally wrong which is the criminal justice field. Aristotle explains that marijuana use in the table of hierarchy of goods that the apparent goods that are innocuous, is pursued in moderation but do not interfere with the pursuit of real goods. The recreational use of marijuana is seen as an act of self indulgence even though in Aristotle's reasoning that all activities do aim for some good. The rightly order of desires which Aristotle contracts between people between the continent, temperate and weakness of will. I believe that the use of marijuana falls under the continent people because even though it is an unruly desire, it is managed and controlled.