For the past thirty years the government has escalated the war on drugs by banning every kind of addictive drug and pumping billions of dollars into aggressive enforcement without significant success. ... The war on drugs is highly corrupting on society 2 because enormous wealth is created in the hands of the worst criminal elements giving them the means to bribe the pillars of our society like law enforcement, judges, and politicians. ... Law-enforcement receives a large budget for chasing down drug dealers. ... "Continuing the 3 war on drugs on the grounds that it destroys neighborhood...

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Nixon felt that drugs are bad, so bad people do drugs. ... Instead, it is supporting two drug enforcement and drug trafficking. America's enforcement-oriented strategy has resulted in millions of arrests and hundreds of thousands of prisoners who are Black or Hispanic. ... The policy has failed to reduce drug-related deaths, drug abuse, drug availability, and crime. laws against drugs not being an effective solution. ... Regardless, law enforcement tactics are concentrated in the poor minority neighborhoods. 2. ...

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However, the federal government and its drug enforcement agencies claim there is no distinction in federal law. ... Classified as a Schedule I drug, cannabis belongs to the most restrictive categories for psychoactive drugs in the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) five categories. Drugs in this category meet three criteria: the drug has high potential for abuse; the drug has not therapeutic value; the drug is not safe for medicinal use. ... Today's marijuana is far stronger than it was two or three decades ago; therefore, a wide margin of safety would be enforced when its used ...

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"The fact that the levels of drug-related crime would significantly decline would result in less crowded courts, jails, and prisons, and would free law enforcement personnel to focus their energies on the real criminals in society" (Inciardi/McElrath, 287). ... If drugs were legalized, all drug-related crimes would end. ... If drugs were legalized, drug-related careers would not exist. ... Drug trafficking is the illegal sale and exportation of drugs. ... Drug trafficking will be stopped if drugs become legal. ...

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Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. ... "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws. ... The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget requests, or, more likely, focus more intensely on hard drugs and violent crimes. ... The illogical pattern of law enforcement, which now treats marijuana as more dangerous as alcohol, would end. ...

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Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. ... "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws. ... The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget requests, or, more likely, focus more intensely on hard drugs and violent crimes. ... The illogical pattern of law enforcement, which now treats marijuana as more dangerous as alcohol, would end. ...

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For more than 50 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). ... Drug prices have also continued to fall, and drugs remain easily available for much of the population (Wodak 2014). ... Violence in drug markets is one of the negative effects of drug prohibition (Miron 2001). ... Because of an aggressive law enforcement campaign against the use and sale of illegal drugs, the rate of incarceration for drug offenses increased nearly tenfold from 1980...

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Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) have a long history in sports according to Sports in America's "Performance-Enhancing Drugs" article. ... The next drug becoming highly popular is testosterone (HGH). ... PED's are not the only drugs being used in the sporting world, recreational drugs are being used as well. ... Recreational drugs are also among the substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the international organization that enforces drug rules for the Olympics and other international sporting events. ... Athletes who use drugs and those who supply them put as much...

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Today, drugs are incredibly expensive and highly uncertain in quality. ... Legalizing drugs would extremely reduce these risks. ... With the large sum of money saved from selling drugs could go towards promoting several different programs on the effects of addictive and mind-altering drugs. ... So we are able to purchase drugs easily enough. ... Ultimately, I think that, the legalization would reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement, and society will someday see that it is best in sense....

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The population of drug users includes a wide variety of different peoples as well, one can see the use of drugs spans across a spectrum of people of various backgrounds. Other aspects relating to the frequency of drug use by individuals can also demonstrate how diverse the population of drug users is, as well as it brings up the issue of differentiating between using, abusing, and being dependent on drugs. ... As the human race has developed not only have laws changed regarding drugs, but the drugs themselves have evolved. ... As time has progressed, one can see how technological improvemen...

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Drugs have been a serious problem in the United States. ... The term drug abuse often refers to the frequent use of a drug that cause physical or mental harm to the user. ... Despite the effort of law-enforcement, the demand for illegal drugs remains very high. ... Nonetheless, in the face of mounting public concern, in 1986, Congress passed strong new drug laws and enforcement measures along with treatment and education programs (Arterburn, p.93). ... Drug users looked down upon and are ashamed to use drugs in society, because they know it is wrong. ...

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That is the amount of money spent on the War on Drugs each year-$1,271 per second spent on law enforcement, incarceration, and interdiction. ... Enforcement of drug laws causes law enforcement officers to be more confrontational, preventing public trust. ... McNamara is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group started by retired law enforcement officials who have fought in the war on drugs and believe that war cannot be won (Martin 2009). ... Drug enforcement laws do not prevent drug trafficking nor the violence associated with the illegal trade. ... If this were a l...

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The enforcement of alcohol also cost the government large sums of money. After the first year of enforcement, America lost 5 million dollars. ... Both cases involved in some way the banning of a mind altering drug or drugs. ... This so called "War on Drugs" has done nothing to lessen illegal drug use in the US. ... I'm not saying that all drugs should be made legal, just the so called "Soft Drugs" like Cannabis and Phsycadelics. ...

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This extra funding could be used to create more efficient law enforcement upon violent crime. ... Law enforcement should not be using such a massive amount of time and resources busting young people with harmless amounts of marijuana, but instead looking at the bigger picture of who is distributing the drugs committing heinous acts of violence. ... Despite the U.S enforcing the hardest drug policies in the entire world, it is the leading all other nations in marijuana use amongst its citizens. ... Marijuana is a drug that would too greatly benefit the United States for it to remain illegal. .....

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The presidents" 1993 budget allocated about $15.8 billion for all law enforcement programs, which included hiring more drug agents for The Drug Enforcement (Bender). ... The Drug Enforcement Agency has said they don't want marijuana to be legal due to the fact that there is no real hard evidence that proves marijuana is an effective drug as a medicine. ... The Drug Enforcement Agency spends about $23 million a year to incarcerate nonviolent marijuana offenders. ... Second, there would be a reduction on the amount spent on law Enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and s...

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The nations drug war might sound beneficial, but in truth, it hasn't really helped our nation's drug problem. ... Making Marijuana legal would greatly reduce the vast amounts of money spent on drug law enforcement every year. For example: In 2000 well over ten billion dollars were spent on drug enforcement alone. ... The legalization would reduce the amount of time and money spent on law enforcement by more than a half. Victims of cancer, Anorexia, aids, mental disorders, and glaucoma would find quality Marijuana readily available, and could use it to ease...

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All of these drugs are considered being stimulants which is a class of psychoactive drugs. ... Drugs that affect these processes are, in general, called psychoactive drugs.1 By altering our neurotransmitters these psychoactive drugs could elevate mood, increase feelings of well-being, amplify energy, and along with heighten alertness to surrounding elements. ... As with many other drugs, repeat use Methylone can cause addiction. ... Words quickly spread about this new party drug and within weeks the drug is no longer just a hit in Europe. ... With that finding the Dutch government quickly forc...

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In the book, The Case for Legalizing Drugs, it states, "Legalizing drugs would promote public health, not harm it. ... The drug enforcement authorities would reduce their budget requests, or most likely, focus more intensely on harder drugs and violent crimes. ... Federal, state and local governments spend about 100 billion dollars a year on law enforcement and criminal justice programs. There is about 35 billion dollars, which is directly related to drug law enforcement and probably another 15 billion related to crimes committed to obtain drug money. In one year, about 50 billion dollars ...

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Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase the amount of drug use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on enforcement, and will therefore increase our countries revenue, lessen crime, and will also be useful in treating certain medical conditions. ... It will allow for money spent on drug law enforcement to be spent more wisely and it will increase revenue. ... Every year in the United States, ten billion dollars are spent on enforcing drug laws alone. ... Not only has the drug problem increased, but drug related proble...

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(Drugs in Sport) According to Dr. ... (Is drug use a problem in sports) Like other people, athletes take drugs for a variety of reasons. ... (Athletes and Drugs) In order to solve the complex problem of drug abuse in sports, we need a comprehensive drug policy developed by all those concerned. ... (Drugs in Sports) It is not enough to tell athletes that drugs are wrong, the drug supply must be cut off to guarantee the extinction of drug use among athletes. ... A major frustration for drug enforcement authorities is that many of the steroids come from abroad. ...

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While the so-called "war on drugs" is in full stride, it still has had problems accomplishing its main goals. ... "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws- (Long, 114.) ... "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, adding tremendous amounts of what is basically profit to our: governments funding for schools and monuments/buildings, government spending and ...

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Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase amount of use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on law enforcement and will also be useful in treating certain medical conditions. ... Tobacco, a drug that advertises the fact it gives you cancer, is sold almost anywhere, while marijuana, a drug that causes the munchies, has to be grown in secrecy. One would think that a drug like alcohol would be taken off the market because of its unsafe properties, but it is kept legal with a poorly-enforced age restriction. ... The legaliz...

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Should we make some drugs legal or should we leave it as is? ... They are selling it on the streets and even in schools but no one has made a point to enforce that it is illegal. ... A few think that marijuana is the "gateway drug". ... With that, there were specific rules that were enforced. ... We need to make some changes and enforce that all drugs are illegal and should remain that way. ...

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Current drug legislation has failed to reduce demand. ... A persistent myth about marijuana is that it is a gateway drug, leading to the use of harder drugs. ... It is the enforcement of the laws criminalizing the possession, use, manufacture, and distribution of marijuana that are causing the violent crime. ... The following is an excerpt from their policy on drugs which was adopted in 1994: Criminalizing the use, possession, manufacture, and distribution of drugs violates the principle that the criminal law may not be used to protect individuals from the consequences of their own autonomou...

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The main goal of marijuana prohibition is to stop Americans from using it; it has failed just like the alcohol prohibition did in 1920 when it was enforced. ... Some of the expenses are: cost of active law enforcement, cost of prosecution of accused offenders, cost of incarceration of convicted offenders, cost of anti-drug education an propaganda, hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue that would be generated if drugs were legal and taxed. ... Many people argue that marijuana leads to "harder" drugs such as cocaine, heroin, acid ect. because marijuana is said to be a "gateway" drug. ....

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