In addition, every type of insurance goes up because of drug abuse, including auto, health and homeowners (Belenko). ... Drugs abuse simply has a negative effect on our community as a whole; therefore, we need to work together to create more effective policies. ... Innocent citizens also have to pay higher insurance rates because of the risk of drug dealers damaging property. ... It is hurting our country by causing increased crime, soaring insurance rates, stealing tax dollars, hurting families, and hurting children. ...

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"Since most of the propagandists against drug abuse seek to justify certain repressive policies because of the alleged dangerousness of various drugs, they often falsify the facts about the true pharmalogical properties of the drugs they seek to prohibit." ... Insurance companies would pass on those accident expenses to consumers. ... Amsterdam's officials blame the significant rise in crime on the liberal drug policy. ...

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He states that his "lifelong struggle with mental disease has consistently brought him back to write about drug policy, pharmacology, and mental illness" (266). ... Therefore for those people who do not have the money for the pharmacy or health insurance can get the same results from illegal drugs, and we punish those who do. ...

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