... of over 727 private jet airliners to transport Colombian cocaine to municipal airports (Wikipedia). In the months before his death, The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration described Carrillo as the most powerful drug trafficker of his era. Most people think that most famous drug dealers are not in America but, actually there is a famous man who cut out the middle man and gained most of the ... profitable for those involved but also much harder to get caught. Also on the rise the drug trafficking from tourists groups. Theirs have been numerous links between drugs and terror over the las...

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... of the drug does not harm anyone else. There are harms related to the illegality of drugs, such as crime, but "no one knows how much they would be reduced if drugs were legalized- (Wilson, 339). A great amount of money is involved also. In order for law enforcement to continue ... this war on drugs, billions of dollars must be spent each year. This is a large amount of money, but using this money in order to crack down on drug use is only to protect society. There are a few reasons why drug legalization could be a decent ... and can lead to physical deformities or neurological damage- (...

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... the corner store. The immediate effects on the user are relaxation and a slight anesthetic effect. Alcohol is a very addictive drug. There are more than 5 million alcoholics in Australia which is and indication of how widespread its harmful effects are. Alcoholics ... over a long enough period of time, or if mixed with other drugs, death. Marijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe or rolled in a cigarette. Thirty-seven percent of people ... of the worst drugs because it causes respiratory illness and kills mucus membr...

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... the person, but the person actually comes back to reality. Cocaine, a highly addictive drug is used as an anesthetic, especially for the eyes and nose. Some people develop dependence for medicine, and therefore, innocent intentions turn corrupt. Recently, the UCSD recently won Drug Enforcement Administration approval to start two clinical studies evaluating smoked marijuana as a pain-management treatment for ... HIV and multiple sclerosis patients. The human body gets the primary impact of drug abuse. The first thing it affects is judgment. Obviously one's judgment must be way ... their...

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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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... 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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... to be stopped by our law enforcement personnel. The war on drugs has given police a license to target those people who they believe fit the "profile" of a drug dealer or a gang member. The prevailing perception in American society today is that most drug traffickers and gang members are minorities, ... the "typical" cocaine user is a white middle class suburbanite. But law enforcement tactics remain concentrated in the inner city, continuing to feed the perception that drug dealers and users are black. This allowed the "drug courier profile," which possesses racial overtones, to take ho...

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... was largely because they were being sold in the same area and by the same drug dealers. The cops started cracking down and setting up drug busts. This drug epidemic caused the government agency known as the D.E.A. (Drug Enforcement Agency) to put an end to the drug war. The D.E.A. performs hundreds of drug busts a day in major cities and small towns all over the United States. These ... text to the buyer referring to the meeting place that the deal will take place. It is hard for the feds to match this kind of technology, with people making drug deals right underneath their noses. The 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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... to alcohol and continually fighting the battles of an alcoholic. Per an interview with Denise Biewiersoff, probation officer, most of the teenagers that she sees for alcohol problems also have drug problems. She finds that most of them smoke marijuana. (Telephone Interview). According to the Madd Organization, ten million Americans are addicted to alcohol. But even more scary alcohol and tobacco ... kill more than fifty times the number of people killed by cocaine, heroin, and every other illegal drug combined (1 "Research on Youth -). Since there are so many problems associated with yo...

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... , only we would see the rate of AIDS among heterosexuals decrease. Aside from the spreading of AIDS, crime is another serious result of the illegal drug situation. The war on drugs has meant a vast diversion of law enforcement from violence to an attempt to control how people use their own bodies. The Washington Post reported in late 1990: "Florida released 130,000 ... one year is equivalent to freeing a violent criminal to commit 40 robberies, 7 assaults, 110 burglaries, and 25 outs thefts." Looking at the drug issue from another point of view, President Bush gave a speech in June 1992 ...

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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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... , you could implement more than one problem into this intervention plan because one problem usually leads to another. A great program that was used while I was in middle school was DARE (drug abuse resistance education). There section of this program my DARE teacher called ARE (alcohol resistance education). This is a great program and should still be taught in schools. So I would have ... of underage individuals would reduce the overall consumption of alcohol by the minors. Underage drinking laws are among our most important tools to reduce underage drinking, and the better the enforcem...

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... in jails. The affects of this would trickle down to the taxpayer and our tax funded programs. With fewer tax dollars going towards the Drug Enforcement Agency, law enforcement, and court systems, programs such as after school sports and performing arts centers would be better funded. I find that people who use this ... if drugs were legalized I would still have a very hard time accepting people around me being under the influence. My first two marriages ended because of drug use by my spouses. Nothing good ever happened while they were high it only made things worse. I have many bad memo...

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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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... are not in competitive sport. People in occupations that can require high amounts of strength (bouncers, law enforcement officers, and military personnel, to name a few) can also be tempted to test out the drug. There also tends to be a number of users in the populations of male models and homosexuals. The ... to raise their status in their sport, or those simply looking to improve the appearance of their bodies, will have trouble turning their heads from a drug that can potentially produce such positive results in such a short period of time. 1 Why then, when such positive results are ...

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... though they smoke far less." Source: Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, The War on Drugs is not a failure, crime statistics show that drug use, drug-related and murders have all gone down. The War on Drugs is more expensive than ever. Sure it has not gone down as much as we would like ... will stop their evil work just because we have legalized drugs. In fact, it will "legitimize" them and turn our law enforcement community into enforcers for "legalized" drug pushers. Another reason violent crimes will not go down is that people commit crimes because they are on dr...

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... other harmful drugs, accounting for 75% of the world's cocaine. In Colombia there are 50,900 hectares of coca, 2180 hectares of opium poppy and 5000 hectares of marijuana. Law enforcement and intelligence community sources estimate 65 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States moves through the Central America-Mexico corridor, primarily by vessels operating in the eastern Pacific ... most of their cocaine and heroin to Colombia. Colombia's 80 metric tons of cocaine and 6.5 tons of heroin is then shipped to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Mexican drug trafficking organ...

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... the daytime traffic on a nearby street. These are the day to day lives of the two-hundred and fifty- thousand inter venous drug users of Canada (Calgary Herald). Do you think that a supervised facility with clean needles and syringes would benefit these poverty stricken addicts ... has stayed the same (Sharpe A23). Facts have confirmed these statistics. For instance, by 2000, one-thousand and five hundred current and former drug users registered themselves into AIDS Vancouver Hospital. All these people infected simply because a sterilized syringe was not available. Lets just think for ...

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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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... the streets today. It has destroyed millions of lives and will hurt many more in the years to come. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a group that is concerned. They created a web site (located at http://www.drugfreeamerica.org.cocaine.html) that gives ... the main problems with getting a user off cocaine is withdrawal (the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug text page 191). The symptoms of withdrawal associated with cocaine are paranoia, aggression, insomnia, and depression. These symptoms are one of ... the first place. Psychologists ...

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... walled blood vessel in the brain may burst, causing a cerebral hemorrhage, which is often fatal. Cocaine affects users mentally by causing depression once the drug has worn off. Long-term users of cocaine suffer from this a lot more than occasional users. Suicide is a hazard when using cocaine. Cocaine ... intensity of cocaine use increase, the severity of the depression can increase proportionally. Thus, causing a sense of hopelessness after trying to stop their drug use, which may lead to suicide. Cocaine affects the family of the user by causing the family members to feel angry, mani...

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... drug use by so many Americans might be. I cannot honestly say that I believe drugs should be legal. I do see that drugs" being illegal criminalizes someone's choice to do drugs. So looking at a constitutional point of view, I say not. We pay in so many ways because drugs are illegal, such as taxes for law enforcement to chase drug ... dealers or overcrowded prisons for drug offenders. This in of itself seems a bit hypocritical, as many of the prisoners are using large amounts of drugs inside. We find ... sale now type of idea. However, later might be decreased by the novelty effect weari...

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... murders and rapes, a quarter of car thefts, two fifths of robberies and assaults and half of our nations burglaries and thefts. The reason because of this is because when law enforcement stops the flow of drugs they become rarer. Eventually it becomes a game of supply and demand and the prices just keep going up. People who are addicted need the more ... our society today. It makes the environment in the prison even more vile and dangerous. Of 31,346 people in jail around 15,000 of them were in jail for drug law violations. In 1986 state prison were 114% over their population limits. If...

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