... .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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... product endorsement. Pro team owners, meanwhile, are constantly scrambling for more income from broadcasting and other sources to meet their massive payrolls and still turn a profit. A series of drug scandals might well cause media outlets and corporate sponsors to re-evaluate their financial commitment to sports. Similar trends are under way at the Olympics. Relaxation of International Olympic Committee ... a current case in point. Over the past three years a number of federal and state laws have been enacted for the purpose curbing steroid use and distribution. A major frustration for d...

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... product endorsement. Pro team owners, meanwhile, are constantly scrambling for more income from broadcasting and other sources to meet their massive payrolls and still turn a profit. A series of drug scandals might well cause media outlets and corporate sponsors to re-evaluate their financial commitment to sports. Similar trends are under way at the Olympics. Relaxation of International Olympic Committee ... a current case in point. Over the past three years a number of federal and state laws have been enacted for the purpose curbing steroid use and distribution. A major frustration for d...

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... potential for profitability. The commodification of drugs, both illicit and licit, follows the principles of capitalism and supply-and-demand. David Courtwright has summarized drug use throughout world history in his book, Forces of Habit. Courtwright described the "big three" and the "little three" drugs of all time. ... ). Especially when tobacco began mass production in the American colonies and tobacco became cheaper, worldwide consumption was reached. Tobacco was the first drug that reached across all social classes, making it highly profitable. It overcame its side effects of foul b...

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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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... (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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... 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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... recreational use in some states. Do we not see the concern? Opponents to legalization are usually law enforcement and government officials. But this must be for good reason. Law enforcement is here to make sure things continue flowing. They look for the issues and correct them. They ... legalization as a panacea that will make crime go away. They see a clear connection between drug use and crime and, perhaps more importantly, between drug use and violence"" (Hartnett 2). Reports from the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) have shown that six times as many homicides happen by people und...

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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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... 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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... 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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... behavior and feeling a craving for soma, so eventually someone would have to intervene before the use of soma spread throughout an entire population of people. Law enforcement agencies around the country would be all over the distribution of soma, just like they are all over the distribution of other mainstream drugs such as ecstasy ... and even marijuana. Although it would be impossible to stop the use of soma completely, law enforcement would have a huge impact on the amount of the drug sold, and the amount of people that become addicted to the drug. However there is other reasons why t...

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... are capitalizing on the increase of club drug use by concocting their own versions of Ecstasy and selling them as the real thing. The fake Ecstasy pills are appearing at dance clubs and all night dance parties, or raves, in at least 14 states, including California, Oregon and Florida. Health and Law Enforcement officials warn that these variations of Ecstasy, using research ... chemicals to produce them, are even hazardous than Ecstasy itself because the effect of the research chemicals have not been studied. Law Enforcement officials in Florida have issued alerts for two of the drugs, ...

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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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... prohibition. Someone who sold alcohol illegally was called a bootlegger. This name comes from the large boots worn to hide the alcohol in. The enforcement of alcohol also cost the government large sums of money. After the first year of enforcement, America lost 5 million dollars. After the second, 6.3 million, the third, 28.5 million, and by the fifth, America had lost 300 million dollars ... December, 3, 1933 (36). The so called "War on Drugs" is very similar to the prohibition of alcohol of 1920's. Both cases involved in some way the banning of a mind altering drug or drugs. Drugs are...

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... rights to sell the drug through holding its patent. Only a few experimental therapists researched and tested the drug (between 1977 to 1985) for use during psychotherapy sessions (Cannon 4). In 1985, MDMA/Ecstasy received massive media attention when a group of people sued the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) ... to try to prevent them from outlawing the drug by placing it on Schedule 1(Nelson ... 4). The US Congress had passed a new law allowing the DEA to put an emergency ban on any drug that it thought might be a danger ... any high I've experienced. I don't think Ecstasy will replac...

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... endorsement. Pro team owners, meanwhile, are constantly scrambling for more income from broadcasting and other sources to meet their massive payrolls and still turn a profit. A series of drug scandals might well cause media outlets and corporate sponsors to re-evaluate their financial commitment to sports. Similar trends are under way at the Olympics. Relaxation of International Olympic Committee ... current case in point. Over the past three years a number of federal and state laws have been enacted for the purpose curbing steroid use and distribution. A major frustration for drug enfo...

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... act to prohibit them. Later that year, Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act. Prohibitionists disguised the act as a revenue bill and banned the entire plant species through regulation enforcement. The government then began arresting people for possession of any amount of Marijuana. More recent information says, "In 2000, 46.5 percent of the 1,579,566 total arrests for ... , Narcotics Treatment Admin.) project to distribute methadone to addicts in D.C., but it was a controversial idea. Many people worried that methadone was no more than a substitute narcotic"(PBS, Frontline, The Drug War...

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... only purchase it if they were 21 and bought it from a state sponsored store. To punish the sales to minors, they recommended harsher laws and punishments to drug peddlers. This initiative would also let law enforcement spend more valuable time investigating more serious crimes than wasting their valuable time and tax payer's money punishing non-violent pot smokers. (NRLE.) I felt that this ... was a legitimate reason to legalize marijuana, yet this initiative did not pass. How would this have looked to the kids that we have continuously pushed drug propaganda on? I feel that ... be lik...

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