... . The whole argument that television is like an addictive drug is far fetched. In the Nielson survey of American viewers the average American family watched seven hours of television a day. This sounds shocking, until you realize that there are approximately 4.5 people per family. If you divide the seven hours of television viewing per person, then the hours a day watched per person comes out ... are not able to consort with people at the same time. I, personally, am more capable or carrying a conversation while watching television than I am while reading. Most of my friends and family a...

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DRUGS Did you know that our society spends and average of $245.7 billion dollars on drugs and alcohol every year? $97.7 billion of this is spent on illegal drugs like ecstasy, LSD, and Methamphetamine. This is because the availability, crime, ... desperate to make money or conned into it. Drug dealers are usually the ones that need money and can't think of any other way of getting it, come from a broken family and think that no one cares what they do, or tries to take the easy way out. Weather someone is dealing drugs or doing drugs they pay for it big ... money for food and clothes and how...

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... local justice systems. In that year their were 1,875,199 adult jail and prison inmates. For all the correction, judicial and legal and police costs it came up to and average of 78,154$ per imamate so you do the math. We have the highest prison population in the world. (show visual) BENEFITS: By legalizing drugs there will be no need ... . Most addicts cannot afford from their minimum wage jobs to afford the high price of drugs so they must steal and rob houses or whatever they can get, even robbing family members. People wont be getting shot over drug deals or drug turfs. Not to mention ...

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