... might be to propose federal legislation that removes federal government oversight of an individual state's determination of its own legalization issues. The federal government could continue to target drug trafficking issues between states, concentrate drug enforcement resources on the more detrimental drugs, like meth, Heroin, Ecstasy, LSD, PCP, etc., and increase public awareness of the "harsher" drugs. An Additional ... less these past four years. Prior to 2008, approximately 25 to 30 percent of all medical Marijuana dispensaries were raided and/or closed annually (Porter, 2012); and ...

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... particularly adolescents. Lenton and Farringdon (2005) conducted a survey amongst students aged 12-17 years verifying that cannabis is the most commonly used drug. This one concern of why people are against the legalization of cannabis in Australia. There are just as many advantages to disadvantages of ... be legalized in Australia it would help to prevent people from smoking illegally, smuggling cannabis, drug trafficking and trades. In Australia, over 250 million dollars per year is spent on law enforcement for illicit drugs (Rozzoli, 1994). Advantage of legalizing cannabis would mean...

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