... , or alcohol poisoning. Tobacco can lead to lung cancer, or heart disease, which both like alcohol can lead to death. Marijuana, on the other hand, can lead to short term memory loss and there is no known report of anybody dying from "smoking weed". Thus when ... be more reliable than the current legal drugs. In addition to its medical benefits, ending its prohibition on marijuana would stop trafficking of the herb and would lower the rate of violent crimes. When marijuana becomes readily available on the market it will eliminate the needs for a drug dealer. With no sales ... fight or get...

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... the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant, which contains the narcotic chemical THC at various potencies. It is smoked or eaten to produce the feeling of being "high". Marijuana has been used for thousands of years for medical, social, relaxation, and religious reasons. An estimated 200,000,000 people for an escape from reality, pleasure, or relaxation consume it ... enforcement, prosecution of accused offenders, incarceration of convicted offenders, and the cost of anti-drug education and propaganda. Also hundreds of million dollars in tax revenue would be generated if marijua...

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... Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking." By comparison, marijuana is less dangerous, non-toxic, and cannot cause death by overdose or miss use. The smoking of cannabis even long-term, has yet been proven ... judge cannabis as less of a drug threat then alcohol or tobacco. Our public policies should reflect this reality, not deny it. All around the world marijuana has its numerous nicknames. To many it's known as Mary Jane, reefer, pot, cush, sticky icky, bud, chronic, and the sweet cheeba....

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... lawyers, and handeling court cases. Prosecuters would also lose money because they would not have as many people to prosecute. If the government would legalize marijuana for personal uses, I think that the crime rates in the U.S would decrease. People would not be dieing over shady drug deals and prisons would ... not be as crowded as they currently are. Many people are sent to prison for marijuana possesion and become more educated criminals rather than an innocent marijuana user which they were before entering prison. Priosns just make people educated in commting harmful crimes such a...

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... with real criminals within our nation. There are several valid reasons that I will address which indicate that Canada would be far better off if marijuana was to be decriminalized for a long period of time. First of all, marijuana should be legally recognized because it is an essentially harmless drug with barely any serious long-term effects to the mind or the body ... . The only clear long-term effect of smoking excess marijuana is the increase in the possibility of obtaining lung cancer. However, this is still far more unlikely than one who smokes cigarettes, which have been legally r...

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... greater dangers, such as traffic safety, abuse, and other more serious crimes. The FBI reported that by 1996, arrests had increased to 9.9% of all combined arrests. Drug offenders, primarily marijuana, now constitute for about 23% of all prison populations in 1995 (Faley, Jonathan. (1997). Fact Sheet: Drug Data Summary. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. 1-4. ... from http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov). Due to this, the nation's prison population has risen 5.2% (Gilliard, Darrell. (1998). Prisoners in 1997. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 1. Retrieved from http://www.mar...

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... only worsen the moral of American society. Last semester I took drugs and crime with Dr. Wolfe and we discussed this idea regularly. We mostly talked about legalizing the use of marijuana. This is more understandable and possible then legalizing the use of all drugs. But then you have to ask the question: if we legalize ... marijuana where does it stop? The result would be a slippery slope to legalizing every other drug. When it comes to legalizing illicit drugs there can be no medium. By keeping drugs ... ...

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... rather have the product than the money, and that the seller would rather have the money than the product. Prohibition was meant to be the end of voluntary exchanges involving marijuana. But, historical evidence shows that, "a prohibition of drugs, alcohol, gambling, prostitution, and other commodities demonstrates that a sizeable fraction of the population continues to supply and demand commodities that are ... Prohibition can even increases demand simply through the "forbidden fruit effect", in which something being illegal makes it more enticing. Even after the almost one million arres...

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... others now available legally. There may be dangers to drug use, but there are also dangers in using alcohol and tobacco. By reasonable standards, marijuana is a mild drug compared to other legal ones, such as alcohol and cigarettes. Consumption of alcohol can cause deterioration to the liver as well ... harm others, as opposed to most crimes. Criminalizing drug use fails to reduce it. One third of those over the age of twelve have used marijuana (Nadelmann 1). Not only does making drugs illegal infringe on peoples rights and freedom to choose, it also creates a black market as well as d...

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... from anyone (family and friends), and his career is based on stealing for his own personal usage. As someone who engages in both of the above-mentioned illegal activities, smoking marijuana and stealing, I am fully aware that these stereotypes do not hold based on my personal experience from participating in these activities. Initially those stereotypes held true for a number of ... reasons. I was not part of a culture that participated in marijuana or stealing. Furthermore, the interactions and observations made with people who did engage in these activities seemed to support the stere...

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... the other hand, legalization is the complete elimination of cannabis as a criminal offense no matter the charge. It would be legal to consume and have marijuana with nothing but some age restrictions and other safety precautions. The full on legalization is a possibility for the state of Virginia, however so is reducing ... because of the fact that smoking weed doesn't do anything positive for its non-medical consumers (Thimmesch, 2013). Many states feel that legalizing marijuana completely would add to the already declining state of our country. It is known that more people would pick up...

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... what could be called a high-class ghetto. This movie is about a young black man who loses his job and is influenced by his best friend to smoke marijuana. The movie also shows the relationships of his family and other members of his neighborhood. With a zany cast of characters and a hilarious script, this movie ... , sex, and life in the ghetto. In the movie Friday, rap star Ice Cube plays the character Craig. Craig has never smoked marijuana. However, his best friend "Smokey" smokes marijuana everyday. Craig loses his job, leaving him home all day with nothing to do to occupy his time. ...

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... there is crime. The largest problem in our valleys high school is a serious crime-the use, possession and growing of an illegal drug-Marijuana. In our high school, Marijuana is such a large problem due to the location of its facilities. The high school campus is in the middle of the San Lorenzo Valley ... not uncommon to see pot plants growing in peoples backyards in the valley. Coincidentally, large populations of the residents in the San Lorenzo Valley that grow marijuana or use it, also have children that attend our district high school located in Felton. The economic view on crime in ...

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... police and community transpired into a conflict. The altercation began when Officer Anthony Cortopassi noticed a couple passing a cigarette back and forth on the West End Overlook, a notorious "hot stop" for marijuana smoking. Officer Cortopassi approached the couple. When he did so he over heard possible suspect Dan Troiano's girlfriend whisper, "Dan, it's a cop!" Officer Cortopassi then claimed Troiano immediately threw ... what he assumed to be a marijuana cigarette away before he could detain the individuals for possession of a controlled substance. Dan Troiano claimed Officer Cortop...

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... be stopped. People know that drugs are illegal, which does nothing but encourage them. In all countries in Europe that have legalized marijuana or all drugs, use is down. In Amsterdam, where marijuana is legal, 20% of adolescents have smoked marijuana. That number is 38% here in the United states. The glamour has be taken out of using. I strongly believe that illicit drugs ... ...

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... the child's thoughts and even personality (Van Son). During middle school through high school years two out of every three students try cigarettes while another one of every three try marijuana (Torbet). Fewer than 15% of students said they had stolen something just because they were bored; this outrageous action was probably done before, by the child's parents. Yet some children ... 't they? Through research it is found that young males are more likely to try a drug than young females (Snyder). Amazingly over 66% of a high school population has tried cigarettes and marijuana. But even m...

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... decided to run a background check on Gacy and found his past. He then decided to issues a search warrant for Gacys home. Found inside his house were as follows A box containing marijuana and rolling papers, seven erotic movies, pills, knife, Books such as tight teenagers' Pederasty: sex between men and boys'. A pair of hand cuffs, a six mm an eighteen Inch rubber dildo ... and needle, a small brown bottle, and a nylon rope. Due to the lack of evidence police could not link Gacy to the missing child. But they could arrest for possession of marijuana and Valium, police tried everything to...

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... compare "grass-eating" corruption with that of smoking. Although it seems harmless at first it can lead to more serious consequences. Smoking is "gate-way drug." Cigarettes often lead to marijuana, marijuana leads to heroin, and so on. If an officer accepts a free meal it might lead to him performing more serious types of corruption. The best way to stop corruption is ... ...

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... on him. We often went to parties, not together though we seen each other there. At these parties teens would smoke marijuana and if anyone ever offered him some he would gladly take a hit. After getting into the whole marijuana thing, he started selling drugs after seeing how successful all the other kids were at our high school. Making easy money was ... ...

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... its effect on crime."" (Westerman 1) The author writes that opponents of the law claim that the majority of criminal sentenced under this law have been convicted on nonviolent crimes, like marijuana possession or petty theft. The facts, according to Westerman, are that in order to receive a three-strikes sentence, a criminal must be convicted of a second violent or serious felony. This is ... where the facts do tend to bear out the intent of e three-strikes law: namely that it convicts those who commit violent or serious felonies, while petty theft and marijuana possession are misdemean...

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... ;no good". The girls arrive in Florida and party with other students known as their fellow "spring breakers." They engage in high-risk sexual behavior, sniff cocaine, smoke marijuana, and participate in underage drinking. The girls throw a party, trash their motel, and are arrested by the police. The police find liquor and drugs. The judge orders them to pay ... ...

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... an essential factor in determining gang membership. People were not only using drugs, they were beginning to sell drugs. Drug use is often times associated with gang membership. For example marijuana and crack cocaine are commonly used amongst these group of people (Esbensen, Winfree, & Taylor, 2001). In the 1970s and 1980s, the crack cocaine epidemic spread profoundly through the inner-city ... ...

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... cool. Little do they know that a single usage of some drugs will have you hooked on that drug for life. Some of the drugs that are popular amongst youths are marijuana, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, anesthetics, tranquilizers, hallucinogens, stimulants, steroids and cigarettes (J. Siegel & C. Welsh, 368-371). The use of some drugs alone is illegal. Drugs can also lead to crimes like stealing ... ...

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... reason for more harm. This law is so disastrous that even a California judge refused to obey the law and decided not to sentence a 32-year-old prisoner caught with two marijuana cigarettes under the "three strikes" sentencing guidelines. "Three strikes is a bust," says Dan Macallair, JPI associate director and coauthor of the study, "Even worse, all the rhetoric and political grandstanding ... ...

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... took advantage of their police badges. " Evans is referring to a 27-count indictment against the detectives. Some of those indictments alleged that the detectives "stole five guns, 17 pounds of marijuana and more than $250,000 in cash, jewelry and other property during raids of homes and businesses. " The detectives were very clever about how they obtained apparently valid warrants to ... ...

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