... province of British Columbia (Statistic Canada, 2004). Furthermore, in 2001, major Canadian law enforcement agencies seized close to 1.4 million marijuana plants, a six-fold increase since 1993 (Statistic Canada, 2004). Based on the seizures and average yield per plant, the current annual production is estimated to be about 800 tones (Statistics Canada, 2004). Two primary factors contributing to the persistence and ... Canada seized almost 1.4 million plants and 29,000 kilograms of marijuana (RCMP). Furthermore, marijuana offences accounted for three-quarters of all drug-related incident...

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... providing them with opportunities for improvement. Bill Clinton believed in utilizing marijuana for medicinal purposes such as A.I.D.S., cancer, and glaucoma but not for the general legalization. He pushed a crime bill for drug leaders consisting of a life sentence for three time offenders. Under the Clinton Administration, California and Arizona both legalized marijuana for solely medicinal purposes. Arizona also began ... corruption. Police corruption has increased with the illegal cocaine trade. In today's society, the perception is that most drug traffickers are minorities, mostly B...

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... constant. My future career as a possible criminal depends on how objective and subjective availability of crime. Both of these traits constitute the opportunity theory (which is a combination of Merton's Anomie theory and Sutherland's Differential Association theory.) Merton's anomie theory is based on highly emphasized success goals and a means deficiency that results in relative deprivation, which leads ... to a state of anomie or norm less-ness, which in turn leads to crime. Highly emphasized success goals include acquiring an immense amount of money and myriads of ... these negati...

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... such as in Amsterdam's "coffee houses". These establishments have generally been associated with criminal networks or providing a middle-man supply increasing the crime surround these establishments (Yu-Wei Chu, Sept. 2012)1. Due to this being such a recent and relevant event with medical marijuana only being in legal ... Since the opening in 2013 there have been several Federal raids on stores, many in Englewood, which may have possible links to organized crime organizations (Paul 2014)3. This means not just from drug cartels but the customers and clients of the shops as well. Consideri...

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... strategy is more differentiated than that for hard drugs because the risks are less serious. Dutch policy on the use of cannabis is based on the assumption that people are more likely to make the transition from soft to hard drugs as a result of social factors than ... does not mean that the Netherlands has a more lenient, let alone a more positive attitude to the use of marijuana; rather it is based on the consideration that tolerating the sale of marijuana under clear conditions helps prevent the use by young people of more dangerous drugs. The Netherlands ... ' policy on coffee shops...

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... led to moral corruption and undesirable behavior. Accepting these premises led Congress to conclude that a federal ban on the production and sale of alcohol would go a long way toward reducing crime and addressing a variety of other social problems. Within a decade, however, Americans discovered that the criminally enforced prohibition of alcohol produced harmful side effects. The rise of black markets empowered ... policy both to those arrested and to the correctional system, are modest. Some recent figures from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) cast doubt on ...

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... the total decriminalization of marijuana. The current drug policy of our government is obviously failing. Drug laws have created corruption, violence, increased street crime, and disrespect for the criminal justice system. Current drug legislation has failed to reduce demand. It's just too hard to monitor illegal substances ... body which people who are opposed to its decriminalization repeatedly cite. One of these in that Marijuana causes brain damage. This claim is based on a study of the rehus monkey by Dr. Robert Heath in the late 1970's. Heath's work was criticized for its insuffic...

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... Once a person tries it they are hooked and keep wanting more and more. Heroin is much more expensive than those other drugs. Because of this heroin usually leads to crime to maintain their addiction. Drug use is generally defined as the use of a drug with such frequency that the user has physical or mental harm or it impairs social abilities ... : Southwest Asian heroin is imported from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. Southwest Asian heroin trafficking groups in the United States are highly cohesive and difficult to penetrate because they are based on ethnic, familial, religious,...

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... Marijuana resource center," 2013) with the following, "In the United States in 2007, illegal drugs cost $193 billion ($209 billion in 2011 dollars) in health care, lost productivity, crime, and other expenditures.  Optimistic evaluations of the potential financial savings from legalization and taxation are often flawed and fail to account for the considerable economic and social costs of drug ... who claim prohibition didn't work point to the growth of organized crime. Although organized crime flourished under its sway, historians trace the beginnings of organized crime in the United St...

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... marijuana and children. Nancy Reagan makes her famous "Just say No!- speech and President Reagan makes marijuana a top priority. Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior through its purported effects of lowering inhibitions, weakening impulse control and heightening aggressive ... is inconsistent with the facts. Whether this is an intentional deception, as part of the federal government's stated public relations offensive against medical mar...

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... towards the total decriminalization of marijuana. The current drug policy of our government is obviously failing. Drug laws have created corruption, violence, increased street crime, and disrespect for the criminal justice system. Current drug legislation has failed to reduce demand. It's just too hard to monitor illegal substances when ... your body which people who are opposed to its decriminalization repeatedly cite. One of these in that Marijuana causes brain damage. This claim is based on a study of the rehus monkey by Dr. Robert Heath in the late 1970's. Heath's work was criticized ...

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... marijuana and children. Nancy Reagan makes her famous "Just say No!" speech and President Reagan makes marijuana a top priority. Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior through its purported effects of lowering inhibitions, weakening impulse control and heightening aggressive ... is inconsistent with the facts. Whether this is an intentional deception, as part of the federal government's stated public relations offensive against medical mar...

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... marijuana and children. Nancy Reagan makes her famous "Just say No!" speech and President Reagan makes marijuana a top priority. Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior through its purported effects of lowering inhibitions, weakening impulse control and heightening aggressive ... is inconsistent with the facts. Whether this is an intentional deception, as part of the federal government's stated public relations offensive against medical mar...

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... year span from 2001 to 2010, 8.2 million Americans were arrested and incarcerated for marijuana possesion with 90% of those arrests being based on possession(Wegman). This is a ludicrous amount of citizens in tax-funded federal prisons for a drug that, if legalized, would ... physical and emotional pain, and allow law enforcement to focus more heavily on violent crime. If regulated like alcohol and tobacco, marijuana would create a tremendous amount of new wealth. Dispensaries and small businesses based on the distribution of the drug would open up, along with already established stores ...

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... the increase of taxation. Libertarian believe those laws are coercive taxpayers' freedom. Overall, it is possible to say that one of the biggest opponent of philosophy is government's laws. Based on those criterias, libertarians would agree to legalize marijuana because it maximizes freedom of choice and is not harmful to other people. Marijuana users have their own rights and responsibilities ... revenue for education, healthcare and infrastructure. Therefore, regulation of marijuana also has promising sign to society. Furthermore, legalization of marijuana could maximize happiness in th...

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... that there can be benefits to a legalized drug trade and that some uses of marijuana will benefit the economy if legalized. This statement is based on the assumption that all illegal drugs can benefit the economy if legalized and that some illegal drugs include uses of marijuana. Illegal drugs are ... etc. When the public's way of life is improved it shows in the economy. Tax money is spent more efficiently, there are more jobs, less crime and an influx of private spending. Therefore creating a stronger and more efficient economy. Use and distribution of illegal drugs is the largest reaso...

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... of the longest running disputes in Canada is the legalization of marijuana. Under discussion is the legality of possession of a given amount of cannabis without being subjected to legal action. Based on historical precedent it should not be out of the question to consider moving to controlled legalization in Canada. In 1908, Drug prohibition began with the Opium Act and Cannabis ... and the United States extremely profitable, sending billions of dollars overseas in an underground economy while diverting funds from productive economic development. If dealers were put out of business, orga...

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... sake of the country, but do it for the sake of our children!! The computerization of this realm is inevitable, and with a new age follows new customs: legalized Happy Sticks. Crime is a major factor that affects the average civilian's daily routine. There is an easy answer to ridding more than twenty-five percent of ... selling of marijuana. First off, the obvious fact that every marijuana dealer and smoker wouldn't be criminals any longer would greatly decrease crime itself. Then, the secondary effects of wholesale prices on marijuana would begin to trickle down. Organized crime regard...

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... of prohibition gangs and other illegal organizations have used this hunger to their advantage. Marijuana prohibition has led to larger percentage of organized crime and gang violence. Is this what America wants as an outcome of the War on Drugs? Marijuana should be legalized because current drug ... less of marijuana. (Glasser 138). With the criminalizing of marijuana the prison systems has been clogged with hundreds of thousands of people for doing a victimless crime. In 1996 marijuana-possession arrests exceeded 545,000 nearly a doubling in a five-year period. (Glasser 139). Jeffrey Si...

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... of dollars that the government could put to good use. The recreational use of marijuana does not create higher crime rates like most government policy makers seem to believe. The crime rates in Amsterdam (where marijuana is legal) are much lower than other cities in Europe and most major North ... American cities.19 In fact the possession and trafficking of marijuana is the only crime most users of marijuana commit where marijuana is illegal. The so called "War on Drugs is a complete failure. Prisons are filled with drug ... and use them in their anti-marijuana campaigns. Most of the ...

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... main thrust of the propaganda campaign was to control the African American community and keep African Americans from becoming successful. Articles appeared in newspapers, blaming cocaine use for violent crime by African Americans. The establishment painted African Americans as savage, uncontrollable beasts when under the influence of cocaine-they said that it made a single African American man ... legally. Under Prohibition, the American government had essentially, (and unwittingly), provided the military backup for the takeover of the alcohol business by armed thugs. Even today, the org...

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... a whole would benefit with the startup of new businesses needing an increased workforce. Some even go so far as to suggest that crime would be reduced because the criminals would no longer control the sale of the drug. They point out that taking marijuana out of ... , likewise oppose all marijuana legalization proposals. One of its members, Charles Ramsey, states that "decisions about medicine in our country should be based on science, not popular votes." He also said that public safety would be threatened with marijuana legalization, and that our country would be ... taking a step backw...

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... a black market trade of narcotics and alcohol. In 1933, the prohibition on alcohol was lifted due to an overwhelming public concern with widespread organized crime, police corruption and violence (Encarta, "Prohibition"). Much like the money spent on maintaining the prohibition of alcohol, since 1981, $150 million tax ... of Medicine, August 1997) . It is a criminal act of the U.S. government by it's own manifesto, the Constitution, to make a personal behavior a crime. A government that cannot criminalize alcohol or tobacco cannot, for the same reasons, deny the right to use marijuana. I...

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... against the use of marijuana (Solomon 2). During this time, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics submitted a report that suggested that the use of marijuana was directly linked to crime, induced violent behavior, and caused insanity (Lupian 3). Based on the report Congress approved the "Marijuana Tax Act of 1937," which required a one dollar tax stamp to grow, sell, or possess marijuana (Solomon 2). The penalties ... of the possible benefits of medical marijuana have been discovered. Its legalization would lead to a more in-depth study and maybe then will all of marijuana's uses be fully kno...

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... legalization, both medically and for recreational use. Medically, the federal government argues that most evidence showing that marijuana works is anecdotal and is not based on true scientific research (Goldberg 253). However, the government has begun to fund some research on marijuana's medical uses. At the same time ... an increase in violence associated with its use and distribution increased. In Amsterdam, marijuana and hash use is legal. Since its legalization, the crime rate associated with marijuana/hash use has decreased significantly, and its sale and trade of the product has ca...

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