... Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, stated, "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack."" On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the ... . D.A.R.E. is especially popular among the children themselves. Most D.A.R.E. officers are friendly, affable officers, and develop good rapport with the kids, who are charmed by ta...

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... in getting this point across to the citizens of America who might use and distribute illegal drugs such as marijuana. People seem to respect the law better when the consequence and repercussions are made known to them. Mark Souder, a Republican member of Congress representing Indiana, made known that the ... the United States of America is a wasteful and destructive social policy that results in the needless arrests of thousands, even millions, of otherwise law abiding citizens. Not only does this war on drugs lead to unjust arrests, it has proven to be counter productive to treat mari...

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... Donald Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, stated, "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack." On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the ... . D.A.R.E. is especially popular among the children themselves. Most D.A.R.E. officers are friendly, affable officers, and develop good rapport with the kids, who are charmed ...

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... Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, stated, "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack." On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the ... . D.A.R.E. is especially popular among the children themselves. Most D.A.R.E. officers are friendly, affable officers, and develop good rapport with the kids, who are charmed by tal...

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... Another claim that legalization supporters make is that prison overcrowding would decrease. The statement has been made for several years, by groups ranging from law enforcement to political, that our local, state, and federal prisons are running out of room because of the number of people incarcerated for ... to fall into the hands of minors as well. This will result in an academic decline as well as an increase in disciplinary problems within schools. He concludes the article by providing a statistic, "Colorado Department of Corrections figures show that people imprisoned for marijuana ...

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... 2000, 44 percent of the marijuana cultivation incidents reported by police agencies to Statistics Canada occurred in the province of British Columbia (Statistic Canada, 2004). Furthermore, in 2001, major Canadian law enforcement agencies seized close to 1.4 million marijuana plants, a six-fold increase since 1993 (Statistic Canada, 2004). Based on the seizures and average yield per plant, the current annual production is ... Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec (Statistic Canada, 2004). Ten years ago, it was estimated that about 10 percent of the marijuana available in Canada was produced with...

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... to the prohibition of alcohol by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1919, but Prohibition was repealed in 1933. In the 1930s most states required antidrug education in the schools, but fears that knowledge would lead to experimentation caused it to be abandoned in most places. Soon after the repeal of Prohibition, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now ... substances. Types of Abused Substances There are many levels of substance abuse and many kinds of drugs, some of them readily accepted by society. Legal Substances Legal substances, approved by law for sale over the cou...

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... ,000 people arrested for marijuana related crimes were under the age of 21 (26). "For most of these youths, their pot bust is their first time in trouble with the law" (Rosenthal and Kubby 26). Perhaps not all of these youth arrested go to jail, but the ones that do get incarnated, have not only been victimized by unconstitutional marijuana laws ... billion per year on drug enforcement (Cussen and Block, par.25). If that money was only used for education, there would be more schools and colleges with more classes, smaller class sizes, and up-to-date advances allowing schools to be more e...

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... perfect and there is a national deficit. The billons wasted fighting this war that has only gotten worse and worse every year could be better spent cleaning our environment, improving our schools, and getting rid of the poverty, that is much more widespread then many know, within our own boarders. Beyond this countless amounts of people couldn't return to their friends and ... +) 1998 vs. 1997 5% 2.5% Lifetime prevalence of heroin use (ages 12+) 1998 vs. 1997 1.1% 0.3% Incarceration Rate per 100,000 population 1997 vs. 1996 645 77.3 Per capita spending on drug-related law enforcement 199...

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