... to violence and crime. Not only that but people are smuggling the goods inside the country, basically rendering enforcement and regulation useless. Also, the demand for drugs fuels organized crime, which, people argue, draws the youth of America into gangs and the drug business itself. People make these drugs in their basements with out government standards or control; therefore most likely ... means that they would oversee the production of drugs and have control over the purity and the potency of them, and hopefully the drug trade would be run more effectively. "Legalization would take...

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... .Another question presented in the CD-ROM was, "How would you urge the president to solve the drug problem?" The results of this question are as follows. 6% percent voted to legalize drugs, 14% voted to increase law enforcement, 23% voted to increase drug prevention awareness, 26% voted to give longer jail sentences to those who violate the laws pertaining to ... Control Act of 1970 consolidated existing drug laws and set stiff penalties, depending on the harmfulness of the drug, and for trafficking drugs. The Comprehensive Criminal Control Act of 1984 included mandatory sentences for ce...

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... point where the majority of inmates are in prison due to drug related offenses" (Debate, 4). Prison systems are getting too many drug offenders sent to them. "The fact that the levels of drug-related crime would significantly decline would result in less crowded courts, jails, and prisons, and would free law enforcement personnel to focus their energies on the real criminals in society ... " (Inciardi/McElrath, 287). Legalizing drugs would lead to less criminal activity, and in turn, less drug-related criminals ... in prisons. Ant-drug laws have unfairly targeted minority groups. "Histo...

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Alcohol/Drug Abuse Today alcohol is accepted in a social gathering or in a rich environment. Only the rich drink the best wine and champagnes but, abusing alcohol is look down on. The people ... , transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. States ratified the Amendment the next year. Herbert Hoover called prohibition a "noble experiment," but the effort to regulate people's behavior soon ran into trouble. Enforcement of prohibition became very difficult. Soon, such terms as "bootlegger," "bath tub gin," and "speakeasy" became household words. Gangs of hoodlums became more powerful as th...

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... more laws added. The problematic aspects of the U.S. drug policy consist of two major flaws: ineffectiveness; mainly laws against drugs not being an effective solution, and prejudice. The drug policy does not meet any of its stated goals. Instead, it is supporting two drug enforcement and drug trafficking. America's enforcement-oriented strategy has resulted in millions of arrests and hundreds ... of thousands of prisoners who are Black or Hispanic. Drug policy since Richard Nixon's presidency has had racist and imperialist ... drugs not being an effective solution, and prejudice. The ...

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... Act establishes tough penalties for drug trafficking, but actually lessens federal penalties for the possession of marijuana. In 1971, President Nixon declares "War on Drugs." To coordinate anti-drug efforts, he creates the special Action Office for Drug Abuse Preventior. In 1972, the Drug Enforcement Agency was created. The DEA replaces several older anti-drug agencies and becomes the nation's prime drug law enforcement agency. By 1979 illicit ... drug use in the United States peaks. The number of users reaches 25.4 million. By ... ...

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... (NORML), says that legalization will wipe out the already 60-billion dollar black market by placing marijuana in the open market (NORML information pack 3). It is the enforcement of the laws criminalizing the possession, use, manufacture, and distribution of marijuana that are causing the violent crime. This war on drugs is wasting the money, as ... from the consequences of their own autonomous choices or to impose upon those individuals a majoritarian conception of morality and responsibility.....Enforcement of laws criminalizing possession, use, manufacture of distribution of drugs enge...

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... taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win. "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on ... . In return, the companies that make the cigarettes would also pay income taxes.. Second, there would be a reduction on the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. Th...

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... taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win. "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on ... . In return, the companies that make the cigarettes would also pay income taxes.. Second, there would be a reduction on the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. Th...

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... taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win.In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on ... . In return, the companies that make the cigarettes would also pay income taxes.. Second, there would be a reduction on the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. The ...

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... legalizing marijuana would increase the amount of use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement and it will increase our country's revenue. This is something that should be left up to the American people. Let us vote ... from selling legal drugs. Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win. With the ... the cigarettes would also...

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... succeed in reducing overall alcohol consumption. But researchers S. B. Duke and A. C. Gross (1993) concluded, "if con- sumption of alcohol was reduced, it wasn't by much; the costs of enforcement, in money, corruption, crime, disrespect for the law, alcohol and related poisonings far exceeded, by virtually anyone's measurements, the tiny gains in alcohol control- (86). Recent research has found that ... crucial variable is not the presence of firearms, but the degree to which young people are successfully socialized into non- criminal, responsible behavior patterns- (154). Prohibiting D...

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... of stopping drug use. NOTE: At the time, opium had become a primary ingredient of over the counter drugs used for a myriad of ailments; also, a 1908 Federal Government report indicates that cocaine was used in over 40 different soft drinks. In 1973, the Administration created the Drug Enforcement Administration to ... prosecute its "declared all-out, global war on the drug menace." To the present day, we spend $15 billion in federal funds and $33 billion in state ... is big money to be made. Prisons have become to be viewed as a business opportunity rather than a rehabilative facility. ...

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... the coffee house atmosphere at the Cannabis Buyers" Club marijuana remains illegal. Although some chronically ill people and their physicians argue that the drug eases their pain and suffering, the question still is fiercely debated by law enforcement and the medical community (Donnelly 1-2).4 Modeled after underground pharmacies that provide AIDS patients with unapproved drugs, Buyer's Clubs have existed informally for ... its legal title passes instantly to the government. The proceeds from an asset for features are divided among the law enforcement involved in the case, a policy that ...

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... increase the amount of use, Marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on the related law enforcement and there are many benefits to be considered especially in pain reduction for the terminally ill. Legalizing marijuana would increase our country's ... assured of "clean drugs". Making marijuana legal will reduce the great amount of money spent on enforcement each year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead of the enforcement process. If a drug dealer is caught another will show up somewhere else. Do you think it is possible to ... would als...

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... created. Nixon launched programs with efforts to crackdown on illegal drug use. He created the Office of Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement (ODALE) and the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence (ONNI). In 1973, he also initiated Reorganization Plan No. 2, which changed the BNDD into the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 created five schedules that ... categorized drugs according to their effects and availability by prescription Drug use among America's children in on the rise, and education is a perfect logical way of lowerin...

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... people in use of Marijuana. Today six Out of every eighteen Americans have tried Marijuana. That's about 50 million people. This proves the drug war just hasn't been helping. Therefore, what might happen when Marijuana is legalized? Logically we could assume that the people who have always ... are pure and simple. Making Marijuana legal would greatly reduce the vast amounts of money spent on drug law enforcement every year. For example: In 2000 well over ten billion dollars were spent on drug enforcement alone. Drugs accounted for more than forty percent of all felony indictments in our ...

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... , but really should be given one. Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase the amount of drug use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on enforcement, and will therefore increase our countries revenue and lessen drug related crimes. There are rarely any deaths caused by the smoking of marijuana, however cigarettes, which are ... legal, cause millions of deaths per year. Alcohol, another legal drug, also causes millions of deaths per year, either from overdosing or driving ... . Marijuana is also said to help relie...

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... a dangerous and addictive mood-altering substance. Marijuana proponents are using a platform of medical agenda to legalize all marijuana use. Michael J. Meyers, a drug addiction physician at Kaiser Permanente in Carson, California, stated in an argument that this medical agenda of the proponents of marijuana would result in public ... working citizens as living on the fringes of society just because they smoke marijuana cigarettes. They simply prefer marijuana over alcohol as their recreational drug of choice. As long as marijuana is smoked responsibly, it has less harmful side effects th...

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... enormously the number of victims of drug use who are not addicts: people who are mugged, people who are corrupted, the reduction of law and order because of the corruption of law enforcement, and the allocation of a very large fraction of law enforcement resources to this one particular activity." ... or the lives lost through adulterated drugs in a black market, or the culture of violence, disrespect for the law, corruption of law enforcement officials and disregard of civil liberties unleashed by the war on drugs." The War on Drugs There are many effects from the war on ... or the l...

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... focus of the war on drugs is keeping Americas youth off drugs and from even experimenting with drugs, especially marijuana which is considered a gateway drug. The war on drugs has been ongoing and controversial. There are many groups around the nation that have given strong arguments against the war on ... children are exposed to advertisements for these products everyday increasing their potential to experiment with substances. Ideas also include making the penalties issued for drug violations fit the crime. Currently there is and overcrowding of Americas prisons, which many people are a...

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... there problems. It's a high that takes them to another level. Other teens smoke pot because they are curious or because of peer pressure. The drug use in America is not decreasing. "Between 1992 and 1995 the marijuana usage among 12-17 year olds doubled. Sixty percent of kids who use mariju ... rehabilitation is $20,000 to $30,000 a month with few medical insurers paying anything on such a claim. There have also been programs such as D.A.R.E. (Drug abuse resistance education) witch have been taught in both public and private schools. Warnings and effects are seen in the media, on newspap...

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... used marijuana. For over 26, about 8.9 million have used. Statistics also show that of the nations local police and sheriffs departments, 80% of their officers primarily work with only drug law enforcement. 55% of state officers do the same. Instead of placing the most emphasis on minor smoking of marijuana, our officers should be putting more attention into 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 ... fo...

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... drug problems with more dangerous drugs such as heroin and cocaine. The legalization of marijuana will also lead to a drop in drug related crimes. There will be fewer people in jail for smuggling marijuana from other countries, and fewer people will be killed in the illegal trade of marijuana that continues to proceed under the law enforcement ... of our government. The drug lords that import marijuana in large quantities and sell it to make a tremendous profit will be put out of ... business. Therefore, there would be no reason for people to break the law by selling and buying marijuan...

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... office and proceeded on into President George Bush's and President Bill Clinton's office. The American people were now under the impression that this drug was the number one problem facing society-beating out the economy, violent crimes, poverty, illiteracy, domestic abuse, and TV violence. I do ... chemotherapy patients. Although marijuana essentially may be legalized in certain states in the eyes of the Federal Government it is still an illegal dangerous drug. For this assignment I plan to research more on the history of the Federal Governments studies and justifications. I also want to...

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