... Abuse, Opposing Viewpoints, about several strategies of legalizing the use of marijuana. One strategy would consist of the government exercising strong regulatory powers over all large-scale production and sale of marijuana. The second strategy is to make drug-treatment programs available to all those who need them. The last, but not least, strategy was to make marijuana available ... feeling" (Cheney, 56). Another teen, Prudencia, describes how she got money for drugs, "I stole a lot, I"d steal cars, steal stuff from stores, break into houses, whatever I had to do to get money for drug...

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... for adults over 21 in Colorado, Alaska and Washington. With progressive marijuana trends and nearly one-third of the American population living in states with medical or recreational marijuana there is a concern about the safety of the local residents in the neighborhoods surrounding these marijuana dispensaries. Around the world, similar places have been present since the 1970's, such as in Amsterdam's "coffee houses& ... local cross-sectional survey, interview of the current feelings and attitudes towards dispensaries as well as an analytical data collection (such as GIS) to provide a ...

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... committing a crime. Unfortunately the users are normally the people who get arrested. Non-violent drug users make up about half the amount of people in prison today. The state of Washington reported in May of 2000 that 70% of people in their local prisons were drug related. If marijuana was legalized, this would significantly cut down since marijuana is the highest used illegal drug ... dealers out of the picture and the buyers would not be committing any crime. The Rotterdam Police Department superintendent in Amsterdam says; "when there are no coffee shops" (a place where people go to...

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