... in forty-seven countries. This group is known to traffic cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamines. The Gulf Cartel is based in Tamaulipas and is considered the most powerful drug trafficking organization in 2006. Juan Nepomuceno Guerra founded the Gulf cartel in the 1970s. The Gulf Cartel has been in alliance with the Tijuana Cartel since 2003. While trafficking ... operating out of Mexico control the distribution of drugs throughout western and mid-western U.S. These areas being; Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Phoenix, Seattle (U.S. Dru...

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... job, but most people will not know why they did not get the job. A flight attendant from Delta Airlines lost her job because she failed a drug test. She was accused of tampering with her urine sample. The flight attendant, Yasuko Ishikawa, Had another test done that came out negative for drugs, and ... was adopted in April. Since it was adopted, about half of the three hundred and seventy-five students have returned the forms. "I don't have a problem with drug testing," James Hughes said. "I have a problem with stomping on the Constitution." Mr. Hughes is a school board member and one ...

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... Basically what this means is it is illegal to search someone or their personal property without a justifiable cause approved by an authority figure. Drug testing may or may not violate any of these functions. First, testing programs are not governmental actions in the sense required by this Amendment ... . Second, test results are not made available to law enforcement officials, and, hence, cannot be grounds for criminal prosecution. Third, since employees know when they accept certain jobs that they will be tested ... sense tests are not unconstitutional searches under the meaning of th...

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... is an idea of political norms, rather then a defined truth. Second, society suffers financially for the strain put on the court system by drug offences. Finally, at a minimum, legalizing marijuana would have a beneficial impact on society. To begin with, politics places too much emphasis on the ... things differently. What government agency has enough erudition to say that a person can not deem themselves capable of making a decision to partake in recreational drug use at any given time. Things such as alcohol, tobacco, and even caffeine are used on a daily basis to affect a person's bod...

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... demand within the United States. This is based on three core principles; (1) Stopping drug use before it starts, (2) Healing America's drug users and (3) Disrupting the drug market. Bush plans to accomplish these goals by expanding the efforts to reduce foreign production at the source, expanding interdiction and enforcement activities to disrupt supply lines, expand efforts to reduce worldwide demand, and expand economic ... disincentives for international drug trafficking. President Bush's National Drug Policy seeks to reduce the use of illegal drugs by 10% over the next 2 years and 2...

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... demand within the United States. This is based on three core principles; (1) Stopping drug use before it starts, (2) Healing America's drug users and (3) Disrupting the drug market. Bush plans to accomplish these goals by expanding the efforts to reduce foreign production at the source, expanding interdiction and enforcement activities to disrupt supply lines, expand efforts to reduce worldwide demand, and expand economic ... disincentives for international drug trafficking. President Bush's National Drug Policy seeks to reduce the use of illegal drugs by 10% over the next 2 years and 2...

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Alcohol/Drug Abuse Today alcohol is accepted in a social gathering or in a rich environment. Only the rich drink the best wine and champagnes but, abusing alcohol is look down on. The people ... , transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. States ratified the Amendment the next year. Herbert Hoover called prohibition a "noble experiment," but the effort to regulate people's behavior soon ran into trouble. Enforcement of prohibition became very difficult. Soon, such terms as "bootlegger," "bath tub gin," and "speakeasy" became household words. Gangs of hoodlums became more powerful as th...

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... 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 create an abundance of positive impacts within the United States. Marijuana should be legalized because it would benefit the economy, help people with 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 a...

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... the safest therapeutic substances known to man. One big misconception that many people use against marijuana is the fact that it is a "Gateway Drug". Study after study has found that this claim about marijuana was highly inconclusive. There is no evidence that trying marijuana will lead to using ... as aid those who could benefit from the substance medically. Our government currently spends over $19 billion a year on the drug war. Of this, over half goes toward enforcement while less than a quarter actually goes to prevention and treatment. This seems to be an awful waste of money that ...

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... to go on the record we support the medical use marijuana; marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis. '' Many agencies, which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency and police departments, argue marijuana should not be legalized. These agencies believe that ... People will raise the question why marijuana illegal at all if its a medicine. The main reason why the Drug Enforcement Agency does not want marijuana to be legal is because there is no hard-core evidence that proves that marijuana is an effective ... harmful...

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... to go on the record we support the medical use marijuana; marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis. '' Many agencies, which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency and police departments, argue marijuana should not be legalized. These agencies believe that ... People will raise the question why marijuana illegal at all if its a medicine. The main reason why the Drug Enforcement Agency does not want marijuana to be legal is because there is no hard-core evidence that proves that marijuana is an effective ... harmful...

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... them all the more enticing to the upperworld, with a glistening edge of mystery and danger" (Fox 77). The Mafia participated in many illegal activities, but drug trafficking was one they seemed to flourish in. Their drug related activities posed a threat not only to the adult population who used drugs but also to the children involved as their agents. The trafficking of narcotics ... 3 profits. These tactics included cars and houses being set on fire and even the kidnapping of children. These ruthless crimes and attacks began to really attract the attention of law enforcement and especi...

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... by police while driving, flying, or even walking for no other reason than their color, religion, or ethnicity. Racial profiling is a law enforcement practice steeped in racial stereotypes and different assumptions about the inclination of African-American, Latino, Asian, Native American or Arab people to commit particular ... is much more common among white suburbanites than urban blacks and Hispanics, yet police have most often targeted poor minorities for drug law enforcement; and there has been no public call to profile white suburbanites, despite this evidence (as this would likely b...

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... according to the information from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2000, the government spent over one hundred billion dollars on a drug war that has been largely unsuccessful. They also issued a survey in the same year, which revealed that seventy four million Americans aged twelve and ... , legalizing drugs is the only way to win the drug war. First of all, legalizing drugs will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement because drug dealers and users are always one step ahead of the law enforcement. If one drug lord is caught, another one wil...

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... stop all vehicles coming through a checkpoint without probable cause or reasonable suspicion. The reasoning behind the checkpoints is a complex application of the Fourth Amendment. During a checkpoint, law enforcement officers are stopping every driver at checkpoint. They are stopping the vehicles without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. However, the court has held the balancing test is more appropriate ... search and seizure. (a) State run sobriety checkpoints are not supported by all states. Sobriety checkpoints also known as DUI checkpoints are locations throughout the state w...

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... focus of the war on drugs is keeping Americas youth off drugs and from even experimenting with drugs, especially marijuana which is considered a gateway drug. The war on drugs has been ongoing and controversial. There are many groups around the nation that have given strong arguments against the war on ... children are exposed to advertisements for these products everyday increasing their potential to experiment with substances. Ideas also include making the penalties issued for drug violations fit the crime. Currently there is and overcrowding of Americas prisons, which many people are a...

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... real crimes that plague the American society. This will help the police to prioritize containing or solving violent crimes over petty drug offenders (Caulkin et al. 50). Personal freedoms of Americans have previously been abused or denied by law enforcement officers in search of pot smokers. Available statistics indicate that almost 19 million Americans smoke pot and about 60% of American ... to be more responsible (Caulkin et al. 4). It should also be noted that the U.S lacks a national policy on the use of marijuana. The drug is banned all over the country by federal laws thus its enf...

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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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... used marijuana. For over 26, about 8.9 million have used. Statistics also show that of the nations local police and sheriffs departments, 80% of their officers primarily work with only drug law enforcement. 55% of state officers do the same. Instead of placing the most emphasis on minor smoking of marijuana, our officers should be putting more attention into greater dangers, such ... as traffic safety, abuse, and other more serious crimes. The FBI reported that by 1996, arrests had increased to 9.9% of all combined arrests. Drug offenders, primarily marijuana, now constitute for ... fo...

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... certain actions in a given situation. The majority of the populace has many misconceptions pertaining to the conduct of law enforcement agencies. One prevailing misconception is that Law enforcement authorities are all too willing to use emotion and instincts in a situation rather than clear thinking to direct their actions ... a successful police action being a complete failure with areas that could have been improved upon. Such is the case in South Carolina involving a drug raid conducted in a local high school. " The police conducted the raid during the period when students were tran...

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... to study marijuana's usefulness as a medicine (Jennifer Thomas, USA Today). In 1988, the Drug Enforcement Agency's own administrative law judge concluded, "it would be unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious for the Drug Enforcement Agency to continue to stand between those suffers and the benefits of this substance in the ... light of the new evidence in this record." (Institute of Medicine). Why would the leader of the government's own anti-drug group say this if marijuana ... Africa and India, where some Hindus used marijuana for religious purposes and stress relief. Since there were ...

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... spent alone just on enforcing drug laws- (Long, 114.) That is simply too much money being virtually wasted on a cause that seems to have no end. Our country could save countless amounts of dollars even if marijuana is legalized for medical uses only. "The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget ... requests, or, more likely, focus more intensely on hard drugs and violent crimes- (Baker 23). All drug enforcement agencies could reduce their budget, and all marijuana sold can be taxed, ... the need for legalizing marijuana, there are also a few slightly more practical uses ...

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... may think it was not a user of the friendly weed marijuana who said this. Just the opposite; it was the (Drug Enforcement Administration) DEA's chief administrative law judge, Francis L. Young in 1988. People around the world have been brought up to think that marijuana is ... defense." This forced the government to find a way to provide him with the medicine. This problem resulted in the establishment of Investigational New Drug compassionate access program (IND). This procedure enabled a few patients to receive marijuana from the government. This program however had too many flaws. ...

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... of our country. The positive effects of such a strategy are obvious in that criminals and criminal activity becomes the direct target of law enforcement. In this article it talks about how the conservatives of this country have been trying to abolish the exclusionary rule for more than thirty ... question was presented in Ferguson v. City of Charleston, specifically related to a public hospitals policy that pregnant women are to be subject to secret drug screens of their urine, results of which were turned over to the police. The policy resulted in the arrest of twenty-nine women. The ......

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... prohibition. Someone who sold alcohol illegally was called a bootlegger. This name comes from the large boots worn to hide the alcohol in. The enforcement of alcohol also cost the government large sums of money. After the first year of enforcement, America lost 5 million dollars. After the second, 6.3 million, the third, 28.5 million, and by the fifth, America had lost 300 million dollars ... December, 3, 1933 (36). The so called "War on Drugs" is very similar to the prohibition of alcohol of 1920's. Both cases involved in some way the banning of a mind altering drug or drugs. Drugs are...

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