... they can fight off dangerous emaciation. The Drug Enforcement Agency spends about $23 million a year to incarcerate nonviolent marijuana offenders. Most of us American citizens do not want to spend scarce public funds incarcerating nonviolent marijuana offenders at the cost of $23 million dollars. Today's politicians should consider our countries priorities and attach more importance to combating violent crime than targeting ... marijuana smokers. By stubbornly defining all marijuana-smoking people as criminals, we are wasting police and prosecutorial resources, clogging our courts and ...

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... spare, the only thing left to do was steal. Generation after generation of this same type of lifestyle has only made things worse as the neighborhoods decline, jobs are more scarce, families have no money to relocate or to survive and the only way to make money is to take money and violence to many becomes a way of life rather then ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School