... years, drug prohibition, with an emphasis on enforcement through criminal justice measures, has been the policy of the United States as well as rest of the world's countries (Levine 2002). However, despite this sustained global effort, many of the goals espoused by supporters of drug prohibition ... the legal economy are usually resolved through the courts and related nonviolent methods of arbitration. By removing drugs from the legal marketplace, drug prohibition eliminates access to these methods of conflict resolution, leaving those involved to resort to violence as a means of resolv...

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... the corner store. The immediate effects on the user are relaxation and a slight anesthetic effect. Alcohol is a very addictive drug. There are more than 5 million alcoholics in Australia which is and indication of how widespread its harmful effects are. Alcoholics ... over a long enough period of time, or if mixed with other drugs, death. Marijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe or rolled in a cigarette. Thirty-seven percent of people ... of the worst drugs because it causes respiratory illness and kills mucus membr...

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... the person, but the person actually comes back to reality. Cocaine, a highly addictive drug is used as an anesthetic, especially for the eyes and nose. Some people develop dependence for medicine, and therefore, innocent intentions turn corrupt. Recently, the UCSD recently won Drug Enforcement Administration approval to start two clinical studies evaluating smoked marijuana as a pain-management treatment for ... HIV and multiple sclerosis patients. The human body gets the primary impact of drug abuse. The first thing it affects is judgment. Obviously one's judgment must be way ... their...

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... are misused far too often. In May 1997, RAND Corporation completed a study over a period of 15 years of the effects of cocaine reduction through the methods of mandatory minimums, conventional enforcement (i.e., more arrests and shorter sentences), and treatment of heavy users. The study found that mandatory minimums reduced national cocaine usage by 13 kilograms, while conventional ... , an assistant attorney general specializing in narcotics and a researcher in drug policy at Harvard Medical School, stated that two-thirds of men sentenced to state prison from July 1, 1994, to June 30, ...

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... , only we would see the rate of AIDS among heterosexuals decrease. Aside from the spreading of AIDS, crime is another serious result of the illegal drug situation. The war on drugs has meant a vast diversion of law enforcement from violence to an attempt to control how people use their own bodies. The Washington Post reported in late 1990: "Florida released 130,000 ... one year is equivalent to freeing a violent criminal to commit 40 robberies, 7 assaults, 110 burglaries, and 25 outs thefts." Looking at the drug issue from another point of view, President Bush gave a speech in June 1992 ...

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... in jails. The affects of this would trickle down to the taxpayer and our tax funded programs. With fewer tax dollars going towards the Drug Enforcement Agency, law enforcement, and court systems, programs such as after school sports and performing arts centers would be better funded. I find that people who use this ... if drugs were legalized I would still have a very hard time accepting people around me being under the influence. My first two marriages ended because of drug use by my spouses. Nothing good ever happened while they were high it only made things worse. I have many bad memo...

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... drug problems with more dangerous drugs such as heroin and cocaine. The legalization of marijuana will also lead to a drop in drug related crimes. There will be fewer people in jail for smuggling marijuana 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. Therefore, there would be no reason for people to break the law by selling and buying marijuan...

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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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... families, and contribute to their communities. They are simply average Americans who should not be punished for this virtually harmless activity. That is why we should stop wasting limited law enforcement resources a! rresting them and start legalizing the use of marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes. Did you know that one American is arrested on marijuana charges every 45 seconds ... ? Approximately 44 percent of all drug arrests in this country are marijuana arrests. Unfortunately, this focus on marijuana has caused a shift away from enforcement against more dangerous dr...

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... the daytime traffic on a nearby street. These are the day to day lives of the two-hundred and fifty- thousand inter venous drug users of Canada (Calgary Herald). Do you think that a supervised facility with clean needles and syringes would benefit these poverty stricken addicts ... has stayed the same (Sharpe A23). Facts have confirmed these statistics. For instance, by 2000, one-thousand and five hundred current and former drug users registered themselves into AIDS Vancouver Hospital. All these people infected simply because a sterilized syringe was not available. Lets just think for ...

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... the streets today. It has destroyed millions of lives and will hurt many more in the years to come. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a group that is concerned. They created a web site (located at http://www.drugfreeamerica.org.cocaine.html) that gives ... the main problems with getting a user off cocaine is withdrawal (the discomfort and distress that follow discontinuing the use of an addictive drug text page 191). The symptoms of withdrawal associated with cocaine are paranoia, aggression, insomnia, and depression. These symptoms are one of ... the first place. Psychologists ...

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... walled blood vessel in the brain may burst, causing a cerebral hemorrhage, which is often fatal. Cocaine affects users mentally by causing depression once the drug has worn off. Long-term users of cocaine suffer from this a lot more than occasional users. Suicide is a hazard when using cocaine. Cocaine ... intensity of cocaine use increase, the severity of the depression can increase proportionally. Thus, causing a sense of hopelessness after trying to stop their drug use, which may lead to suicide. Cocaine affects the family of the user by causing the family members to feel angry, mani...

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... an unfair advantage to the athletes who don't use them." Anabolic steroids were developed in Europe around 1930 to treat undernourished and healing patients after surgery. Anabolic steroids are a drug containing hormones which can be used to increase strength and promote muscle growth. Competitive weightlifters began using these steroids around the 1950s as a way to increase their athletic performance and ... the remote possibility of criminal prosecution deters few if any Olympic and professional level athletes. Still the most effective way to remove anabolic steroids from competitive ...

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... organized police forces. Corruption has taken many forms and has continued to effect the police departments in major cities and small towns. While corruption has been a consistent problem in law enforcement, the nature of corrupt activity has changed dramatically over the years. The attempt to "professionalize" police forces through better recruitment, training, income, and working conditions has resulted in fewer ... in New York City as police officers committing theft from street dealers, radio responses, searches, raids, car stops, and off-duty robberies. They also discovered cops p...

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... drug use by so many Americans might be. I cannot honestly say that I believe drugs should be legal. I do see that drugs" being illegal criminalizes someone's choice to do drugs. So looking at a constitutional point of view, I say not. We pay in so many ways because drugs are illegal, such as taxes for law enforcement to chase drug ... dealers or overcrowded prisons for drug offenders. This in of itself seems a bit hypocritical, as many of the prisoners are using large amounts of drugs inside. We find ... sale now type of idea. However, later might be decreased by the novelty effect weari...

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... or weapons? Answer: The building the respondent was leaving had a reputation for being repeatedly busted for drug possession. However, this did not give the officers the right to follow him and pull him over in order to search him. The "plain-view doctrine" allows law enforcement officers to investigate and search someone they feel may be hiding something illegal. The officers give ... over due to suspicions by police officers that arise by what they witness before their very eyes. However, there are rules and laws that need to be followed because law enforcement officers cannot simply ...

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... alcohol or tobacco. Without question there have been criticisms of marijuana. An important concern is that marijuana maybe a gateway drug that causes progression to other drugs such as cocaine and heroin. More likely, however, is that people who experiment with one drug are more likely to experiment with another. I'd like to take it one step further by adding the real gateway drugs ... 14,000 people and generated 3.34 billion in revenue for provincial governments as well as considerable federal revenue"4. The potential marijuana tax money coupled with the saved revenue from law enforcem...

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... murders and rapes, a quarter of car thefts, two fifths of robberies and assaults and half of our nations burglaries and thefts. The reason because of this is because when law enforcement stops the flow of drugs they become rarer. Eventually it becomes a game of supply and demand and the prices just keep going up. People who are addicted need the more ... our society today. It makes the environment in the prison even more vile and dangerous. Of 31,346 people in jail around 15,000 of them were in jail for drug law violations. In 1986 state prison were 114% over their population limits. If...

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