... time in office, he wage war on drugs and created the Office of Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement(ODALE) and the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence(ONNI). In 1973, he also initiated Reorganization Plan No. 2, which changed the BNDD into the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 created five schedules that categorized drugs ... according to their effects and availability by prescription (1). The Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act of 1986 was introduced to stiffen penalties for pushers, increased customs ... a...

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... to violence and crime. Not only that but people are smuggling the goods inside the country, basically rendering enforcement and regulation useless. Also, the demand for drugs fuels organized crime, which, people argue, draws the youth of America into gangs and the drug business itself. People make these drugs in their basements with out government standards or control; therefore most likely ... means that they would oversee the production of drugs and have control over the purity and the potency of them, and hopefully the drug trade would be run more effectively. "Legalization would take...

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... (through lawful means) and arrest those guilty. As a result, the power to search people and property after a minimal threshold of suspicions has been cited as necessary part of law enforcement protocol. Activities, such as phone tapping, were considered "dangerous and unwarranted practice[s]" by the legal authorities of the alcohol prohibition era. (www.ottawacitizen.com) There was even a time ... real criminal cases are obviously getting less attention than they deserve. Similarly large portions of police and law enforcement agencies have been diverted specifically to narcotics investi...

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... can go to or call to get more help for your child. • There are many good books that you can get • Your local law enforcement agencies have community relation, resource, and drug prevention officers that can refer you to local agencies that can help. • Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous have chapters in almost every city in North ... ) Also local health departments and or police departments will be able to give you names of places to get a hold of for help. Your local law enforcement have community relation, resource, and drug prevention officers that can refer you to othe...

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... arrested and booked on assault charge[s]" (ONDCP 2000). Where punishment often fails, appropriate and high-quality drug treatment often works. A study conducted for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, for example, found treatment to be 15 times more cost-effective than law enforcement at reducing cocaine abuse. Imprisonment costs an average of $30,000 per person per year, while ... treatment can cost as little as $4,000. (Another study found that every additional dollar invested in substance abuse treatment saves taxpayers more than seven dollars in societal costs (...

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... question I"m going to attempt to answer. The government is usually the group that attempts to educate people about the causes and effects of drugs and alcohol through programs such as D.A.R.E (drug abuse resistance education) or S.M.A.R.T. (Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time-Specified objectives). D.A.R.E. tries to educate kids about drugs and alcohol while S.M.A.R.T. conducts studies to see how effective these programs really ... . Many tax payers demand to see what impact their money is having on substance abuse. The SMART program conducts many tests to show how effective or...

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... effort of Bill Clinton and the President of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana Arango, they started a plan to stop and combat the Colombian drug cartels and left-wing insurgents groups in Colombian territory by direct military intervention by American troops. America has spent Nine point three billions of ... the rest of the world, (or at least the countries involved in the First World War) sign to impose and adopt drug prohibition in their law enforcement (Nadelmann). The Criminalization of drugs that America has resent on other countries has been a major factor to influence today's position ...

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... reckless when under the infuence. Drug users also commit personal crimes , like mugging, armed robbery, and even murder B. Drug use itself can be a crime. It makes innocent citizens scared to walk out of their own homes, in their own neighborhoods. Drug abuse drains sociey's resources by requiring that taxes be spent on funding enforcement agencies, educational programs and treatment ... facilities and on prosecution of drug users and dealers C. Drugs hurt future generations ... of citizens, because drug abuse, prticularly of marijuana, is predominantly a problem among teens and teens ...

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... drug selling are not limited to minorities in the US , in fact five times as many whites use drugs. This war on drugs since it began targeted minorities. According to the governments own reports 80 percent of the country's cocaine users are white and the "typical cocaine user is a white middle class suburbanite."(Harris 7) But law enforcement ... tactics are concentrated in the inner city. This continues to feed the perception that most drug dealers and users are black. This prompted the "drug courier profile,"(Harris 7) with racial overtones to take hold. Media ... should be made up of...

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... battles. New avenues for supply and demand reduction were added such as Coast Guard, Customs, and Drug Enforcement Administration operatives charged with intercepting drug shipments into the United States from foreign ports. On the surface, none of these strategies seemed to have an effect ... Since that time, the government has implemented the much more successful policy of focusing law enforcement efforts on irresponsible alcohol users who endanger the rights of others. Unfortunately, current drug policy fails to take into account the lessons of Prohibition. The law regards all users ...

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... consumes 60 percent of its illicit drugs" (Eldredge xi-xii). The War on Drugs has failed However, many people including politicians and law enforcement agents believe that the War on Drugs is justified. When whiskey was first widely used by Northern Europeans, they drank whiskey regularly. However, ... The large amount of money summoned by the desire for drugs by Americans has led to large profits for drug dealers. The profits, in turn, are forwarded to law-enforcement officials who allow for corruptive behavior. In New York City during the prohibition of alcohol, half the squad was .....

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... time in office, he wage war on drugs and created the Office of Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement(ODALE) and the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence(ONNI). In 1973, he also initiated Reorganization Plan No. 2, which changed the BNDD into the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 created five schedules that categorized drugs ... according to their effects and availability by prescription (1). The Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act of 1986 was introduced to stiffen penalties for pushers, increased customs ... a...

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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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... succeed in reducing overall alcohol consumption. But researchers S. B. Duke and A. C. Gross (1993) concluded, "if con- sumption of alcohol was reduced, it wasn't by much; the costs of enforcement, in money, corruption, crime, disrespect for the law, alcohol and related poisonings far exceeded, by virtually anyone's measurements, the tiny gains in alcohol control- (86). Recent research has found that ... crucial variable is not the presence of firearms, but the degree to which young people are successfully socialized into non- criminal, responsible behavior patterns- (154). Prohibiting 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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... , small pieces of legislature aren't going to cut it. The government as a whole needs to put forth the effort to cut federal funding to drug enforcement agencies, retrieve the military grade equipment given to local law enforcement agencies, reform the drug laws, and uphold each person's constitutional rights that were stripped from them when the war on drugs was commenced. On a more general level ... , the culture of law enforcement needs to change as a whole. No longer can it be acceptable to search, monitor, or arrest based on the color of one's skin. No longer can poor downtrodden nei...

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... created. Nixon launched programs with efforts to crackdown on illegal drug use. He created the Office of Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement (ODALE) and the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence (ONNI). In 1973, he also initiated Reorganization Plan No. 2, which changed the BNDD into the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 created five schedules that ... categorized drugs according to their effects and availability by prescription Drug use among America's children in on the rise, and education is a perfect logical way of lowerin...

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... is important to remember that blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities occupy many of the same areas that are targeted by police officers for drug offenses. Other researchers have had similar findings when researching the topic of race and drug enforcement. A researcher by the name of Kevin Burke states,that while blacks make up 13% of the national population and 13% of the country ... 's monthly drug users, they account for 35% of arrests for drug possession, 55% of convictions and 74% of prison sentences? (p. 28). Between 1986 and 1991, the ... , I will also express ways in which I feel...

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... a dangerous and addictive mood-altering substance. Marijuana proponents are using a platform of medical agenda to legalize all marijuana use. Michael J. Meyers, a drug addiction physician at Kaiser Permanente in Carson, California, stated in an argument that this medical agenda of the proponents of marijuana would result in public ... working citizens as living on the fringes of society just because they smoke marijuana cigarettes. They simply prefer marijuana over alcohol as their recreational drug of choice. As long as marijuana is smoked responsibly, it has less harmful side effects th...

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... does, a robust black market, which inevitably spins off many social pathologies and is a policy that can only fail because its objective- a drug free America- is unrealistic and unattainable#. The upcoming paragraphs will attempt to show how the War on Drugs is failing America because of the infringement ... profiling, the environment of their surroundings, and whether or not a person is in the wrong part of town. By criminalizing drugs, it's enforcement is not particularly effective; it saddles the criminal-justice systems with huge costs; it feeds organized criminal gangs; it causes of...

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... statistics show it is a successful tool, it is a violation of people's rights and should be stopped. Law enforcement officials feel that if a disproportionate amount of crime is committed by a certain race, then they deserve a larger percentage of attention from law ... enforcement. Real racial profiling is unconstitutional. With over 1500 traffic laws on the books today, it is easy and legal for officers ... black and Hispanic people. The history behind what is known as racial profiling started back in the mid to early 1980's as a tool to fight drug trafficking. Florida State Trooper ...

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... initiatives, passed by 41 states and written into the federal criminal-justice code, have failed in their mission"(52). When mandatory sentences are not implemented, the average prison term for a drug conviction is about 6.6 years (Grayson 2). This is a significantly shorter sentence when compared to a mandatory sentence. As a study by RAND research group states, "Long sentences could be a ... . In some instances, they do deter consumption. When mandatory sentences are used in Federal cases that do involve high-level drug dealers, the amount of cocaine consumed can be reduced 72 kilogra...

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... number one reason for it's restriction. These effects, however, are disputable. As early as 1972, President Nixon's "National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse" concluded that, "There is little proven danger of physical or psychological harm from the experimental or intermittent use of natural preparation of cannabis ... has been proven to be less toxic and less expensive than conventional medication and in many cases more effective than commercially available drugs ("Against Drug Prohibition" 13). It is in this that the prohibition of marijuana is most harmful to the American public...

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... , dope, bud, green, smoke, just to name a few. There are many beneficial reasons why marijuana use should be legalized. Many people use this drug for medicinal use, and others use it for entertainment. In the United States, using marijuana for medical purposes is illegal. Since the 1970's thirty-five ... 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. Ther...

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... millions of those who break our laws; mostly non-violent drug laws. In 1968, to answer the public's outcry to stem the "drug problem", Congress responded with a major anti-crime bill that provided millions of dollars to states for local law enforcement which increased the federal government's involvement in local law enforcement. Since then this country has ignored intellectual models of criminal ... down again, but the incarceration rate has marched relentlessly upward every single year.2 Crime rates have been stable and slightly declining since the 1970's. The massive increase in law...

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