... standard chemical tests or drug-sniffing canines. Cocaine traffickers from Colombia have also established a labyrinth of smuggling routes throughout the Caribbean, the Bahamas Island chain, and South Florida. They often hire traffickers from Mexico or the Dominican Republic to transport the drug. The traffickers use a variety ... -boat transfers of 500-2,000 kilograms, and the commercial shipment of multi-tons of cocaine through the port of Miami. Bulk cargo ships are also used to smuggle cocaine to staging sites in the western CaribbeanGulf of Mexico area. These vessels are typically 150...

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... 16). Thomas Jefferson also grew the crop, and the Declaration of Independence was even written on hemp paper. This plant was also widely used to make sails and rigging for ships. However, during the 1930's, the plant's favor began to fall as petrochemical plants lobbied for the plant to become illegal in order to reduce competition (Conrow 8), and despite objections from ... legalized in some states for medicinal purposes. Many physicians have already recommended this drug to their patients and advised them to break the law if necessary. In a survey conducted by Dr. Mark A. R. Kleiman, ...

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... many different ways. It has been grown to provide food for villages and towns, and used for clothes, rope, and sails on early ships. The Bible was written on hemp paper, as well as the first draft of the US Constitution. (House of Lords Select Committee on ... the nineteenth century, large hemp plantations flourished in Mississippi, Georgia, California, South Carolina, Nebraska, and other states, as well as on Staten Island, New York. The invention of the cotton gin and of other cotton and wool machinery, and competition from cheap imported hemp, were major factors ... ,000,000 persons...

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... users who wanted to quit smoking pot showed that the longer a person smoked pot, the affects of memory and attention span worsened. The certainty of the tests is unknown as Dr. Harrison Pope notes, "These long-term users may have been worse off in the first place, before they ever smoked marijuana- (Cloud 64). The possibility of long term damage to ... Mechanical Engineering helped the popularity of hemp (Cowan 6). The influence of the "Hemp for Victory- campaign during World War II encouraged farmers to grow hemp as a source of rope for ships (Cowan 6). The government used to support t...

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... users who wanted to quit smoking pot showed that the longer a person smoked pot, the affects of memory and attention span worsened. The certainty of the tests is unknown as Dr. Harrison Pope notes, "These long-term users may have been worse off in the first place, before they ever smoked marijuana- (Cloud 64). The possibility of long term damage to ... Mechanical Engineering helped the popularity of hemp (Cowan 6). The influence of the "Hemp for Victory- campaign during World War II encouraged farmers to grow hemp as a source of rope for ships (Cowan 6). The government used to support t...

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... payers. By decriminalizing cannabis, these users still remain an active taxpaying member of society, helping the economy by maintaining their jobs and paying their bills. According to a study performed by Dr. Gieringer "by imposing a harmfulness tax" of 50 cents to 1 dollar per marijuana cigarette (joint) this excise tax could raise tax revenue ranging from 2 to 6 billion dollars a year " (Gieringer, 1994, ... market for the home growers of cannabis, the government should sell and tax licenses for the purpose of growing one's own crop at home for personal use (Gieringer, 1994). Dr. Gie...

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... payers. By decriminalizing cannabis, these users still remain an active taxpaying member of society, helping the economy by maintaining their jobs and paying their bills. According to a study performed by Dr. Gieringer "by imposing a harmfulness tax" of 50 cents to 1 dollar per marijuana cigarette (joint) this excise tax could raise tax revenue ranging from 2 to 6 billion dollars a year " (Gieringer, 1994, ... market for the home growers of cannabis, the government should sell and tax licenses for the purpose of growing one's own crop at home for personal use (Gieringer, 1994). Dr. Gie...

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... in pill form, was introduced. However Marinol took longer to act, and doesn't decrease nausea/vomiting as well as marijuana. Also, 40% of ontologists prefer marijuana to marinol (Goldberg 251). Dr. Donald Abrams, and oncologist from San Francisco, said that because marinol was purely THC, it tends to knock people out, and that patients spent a large amount of time sleeping in ... was no proof that marijuana was at all harmful and that prohibiting the drug would severely compromise physicians' abilities to utilize the therapeutic qualities of the plant, AMA Legislative Council Dr. Willia...

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... to man. By any measure of rational analysis, marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care."" The most profound activist for marijuana's use as a medicine is Dr. Lester Grinspoon, author of Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine. According to Grinspoon, "The only well-confirmed negative effect of marijuana is caused by the smoke, which contains three times more tars ... evidence - showing up consistently as anomalies in matched populations - indicates that people who smoke tobacco cigarettes are usually better off and will live longer if they smoke cannabis moder...

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... to man. By any measure of rational analysis, marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care." The most profound activist for marijuana's use as a medicine is Dr. Lester Grinspoon, author of Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine. According to Grinspoon, "The only well-confirmed negative effect of marijuana is caused by the smoke, which contains three times more tars ... evidence - showing up consistently as anomalies in matched populations - indicates that people who smoke tobacco cigarettes are usually better off and will live longer if they smoke cannabis modera...

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... to man. By any measure of rational analysis, marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care." The most profound activist for marijuana's use as a medicine is Dr. Lester Grinspoon, author of Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine. According to Grinspoon, "The only well-confirmed negative effect of marijuana is caused by the smoke, which contains three times more tars ... evidence - showing up consistently as anomalies in matched populations - indicates that people who smoke tobacco cigarettes are usually better off and will live longer if they smoke cannabis modera...

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... the 1930's as the drug started to become more and more popular the media started deceiving the public portraying marijuana in a negative light (NORML 1999). An article from the American Journal of Medicine elucidates how "Marijuana users will suddenly turn with murderous violence upon who's nearest to [them]. [They] will run amuck with knife, ax, gun, or anything else that is ... ...

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... . Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose. According to the prestigious European medical journal, The Lancet "The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. ... It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat ... than alcohol or tobacco." As ... ...

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... . Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose. According to the prestigious European medical journal, The Lancet, "The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat than alcohol or tobacco." In ... ...

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... that kill them (like alcohol), and it does not wear them out as other drugs may. There is no evidence that marijuana use is a cause of brain damage. Studies by Dr. Robert Heath claimed the contrary in experiments on monkeys, but Heath's work has been sharply criticized by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences on three primary ... ...

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... have its negative drawbacks. An increase of deaths would occur to those who were uneducated on the drug and its risks alone and with the mixture of other drugs. SS285 Dr. Mc Kay Required Readings: Dan Baum. Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs And The Politics of Failure Bertram, Blachman, Sharpe, & Andreas. Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial Reinarman ... ...

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... . Some addicts graduate to halfway houses where they live before going back out on their own. Another approach to drug treatment in the Correctional Institute is called Biofeedback. According to Dr. Colin Frank (1977), First biofeedback teaches individuals self-control. It can be done alone without disrupting institutional procedures. It obviates the need for sick call by some persons who constantly ... ...

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... and use them in their anti-marijuana campaigns. Most of the scary statistics and studies that the government uses in their anti-marijuana campaigns are based on the research of Dr. Gabriel Nahas. In one of his experiments he suffocated monkeys with marijuana for five minutes at a time. He repeated over a period of six months and concluded that marijuana caused brain ... ...

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