1. Drug Legalization
"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). ... "Historical evidence suggests that the anti-Mexican rhetoric in general and laws regulating the use of marijuana in particular were parts of an overall strategy to remove Mexican immigrants from the labor market" (Jense/Gerber, 49). ...
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