For centuries society has been and still is built on rules and laws. Rules and laws are the reason why society is kept in order. ... When school boards said schools had a drug problem it did not mean candy or over the counter drugs. ... An article in the Chicago tribune points out that "In criminal law there are standards of intent, and there are assumptions of innocence as well as procedures of due process. ... In a court of law a judge has the flexibility to give different sentencing according to the case. ...

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The use of steroids is one of the biggest issues in the current debate weather or not it is fair for drug-free athletes to have to compete with athletes that break the law and take illegal steroids. ... After its initial use in bodybuilding the drug spread like wildfire thought the rest of the sports world, ranging from sports in high school to professional athletes in the Olympic Games. ... It has been estimated that at least 1 in 15 male, high school sports athletes have used steroids, which means more than a half-million high school athletes have used steroids. ... A "NIDA" funded survey ...

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"Legalizing drugs would reduce enormously the number of victims of drug use who are not addicts: people who are mugged, people who are corrupted, the reduction of law and order because of the corruption of law enforcement, and the allocation of a very large fraction of law enforcement resources to this one particular activity." ... Milton on Reforming Education School Vouchers: The Next Great Leap Forward As nice as public school choice sounds good, "in reality it has about as much potential for real change as did agricultural reforms in communist Russia." ... The current unions...

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In the decades to follow several federal agencies had drug law enforcement responsibilities. ... Nevertheless, American children could still walk to school in relative safety, worrying only about report cards and the neighborhood bully. Today however, as children approach their schools, they see barbed wire, metal detectors, and signs warning drug dealers that school property is a drug free zone. ... Drug law enforcement agencies such as the DEA face a daily challenge in protecting the country's borders. ... Additionally, a small amount of LSD manufacturer's are distributing prim...

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The war on drugs was not effective because the drug laws have been poorly correlated and prisons are getting more money than colleges. ... The reasons why so many people of color are trapped at the bottom is because of bad schools, poverty, and broken homes but if we encourage people to stay in schools and stay married, the problem of mass incarceration may decrease. ... The U.S. drug laws have not been able to reduce drug use. Just as prohibition with alcohol, banning it didn't stop people from drinking, people just stopped obeying the law. ... The war on drugs in America aimed to elimin...

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I felt that since I am still in school that I had the right to write a paper on drugs. ... The real problems are not from drugs, but from the anti drugs laws and prevention efforts. ... A quarter of high school seniors continue to use illegal drugs, and after watching the ads, a 13 years old girl started smoking pot. ... The facts are that drugs are easily accessible to high school students and before graduating over half will choose to experiment. ... In making narcotics more valuable than gold, there will be more corruption in society and law agencies. ...

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According to a NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Poll, the leading cause of poverty identified by both the poor (seventy-five percent) and non-poor (sixty-five percent) was drug abuse. ... They drop out of school, abandon their families, have scrapes with the law and don't hold down jobs; all to feed their growing addiction to the drugs. ... Finish high school and take a job, any kind of a job. There is no excuse for not finishing high school, whether pregnancy, drugs, or simple laziness. ... Today, if a person graduates from high school with even a C average, there is a college or some kind of s...

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In the late 1980's my elementary school succumbed to the ingenious invention of the POG. What was actually a glorified tidily-wink soon became the most popular item at school. ... Soon, because the ban of the POG proved to unsuccessful, teachers allowed them back into the school. ... The war on drugs has meant a vast diversion of law enforcement from violence to an attempt to control how people use their own bodies. ... Laws could be put in place controlling the use of drugs. ...

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Therefore, when kids, even adults, get caught with it in their possession, they get in trouble with the law. ... Most kids in school get bad grades because they go to school too high everyday to concentrate on their work. To be drunk while you are at work or at school is not allowed, therefore if you are high you can also get in trouble or get fired for the same reason. ...

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We need to start overemphasizing the dangers of drug abuse in our class rooms of all schools. ... These types of courses need to become a general education requirement throughout our country's schools. ... Making more laws to penalize users is one way of slowing it down. ... If fighting drug abuse were made a top priority, we could probably wage an effective war, through education and enforcement of laws, to stop drug abuse once and for all. ...

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Immediate answers might be school, neighborhood, church, work, town, and family. ... Schools would suspend; families could react with everything from tough love to ultimatums. ... The government looks at us as a series of numbers and statistics and then they create the laws and regulations designed to effect the greatest number of people, or the majority. ... The exercise is simple-- using just the first initial and last name of each of the students in a random class, as well as their social security numbers and the grades that they have received over the course of the current school year, div...

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Libertarianism can trace its history as far back as sixth century BC philosopher Lao-tzu who accordingly stated "Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony." (6:27) Nevertheless, Libertarianism as it pertains to the United States struck a cord with Americans under the despotic colonial rule of Great Britain. ...

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Preventing the drug use has been a major issue in the area of politics, schools, or within the families. ... These drugs are tightly controlled by federal and states laws, because of their high abuse potential. Despite the effort of law-enforcement, the demand for illegal drugs remains very high. ... With proper education in the schools, children may learn the bad effects from drugs and will learn they have no real need to try any of them. Through the proper educational programs and laws society will eventually ridden drug use as it is already deviant. ...

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The three major groups with the high potentials of abusing drugs are high school students, college students, and ordinary routine workers. ... This group is the number one concern to all of the caring adults as these high schools students are still at the time of growing and hence would not be able to clearly identify the differences of neither what is good or bad. Researches says that marijuana experimentation amongst high school students begin at the shocking age of fourteen. ... Different from high school students, these college students are somewhat educated to a certain degree and, ...

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Most of those that are for the mandatory sentencing laws justify their reasoning for it by claiming that drugs often lead individuals to commit violent crimes. Yet a 100-page study on prisoners in Massachusetts, written by William Brownsberger, an assistant attorney general specializing in narcotics and a researcher in drug policy at Harvard Medical School, stated that two-thirds of men sentenced to state prison from July 1, 1994, to June 30, 1996, under mandatory drug-sentencing laws had never been convicted of a violent crime. The report, called Profile of Anti-Drug Law Enforcement in Urban ...

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Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase amount of use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on law enforcement and will also be useful in treating certain medical conditions. ... This change in the law would greatly improve the quality of life for many people. ... Almost half of the oncologist who answered a Harvard Medical School Survey said they would prescribe marijuana for relief of chemotherapy side effects were it legal, and most had already recommended it to their patients. ... The legalization of marijuana wil...

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DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. ... DARE specifically allows stakeholders organizations to demonstrate their commitment to law enforcement, children, and the War on Drugs. ... His son was addicted to drugs and in frequent trouble with the law (Lundman 2001). ... In 1984, the LAPD was spending over $5 Million per year DARE in Los Angeles Schools (Lundman 2001). ... Using pre-test and post-test questionnaires of 1,771 fifth grade students in 23 Houston public schools, Dr. ...

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The United States passed a law in 1984, to raise the drinking age to 21 and would reduce highway funds for states that didnot change the age. ... "A survey by the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study indicates that 52.3% of those college students, who chose to drink, drink to get drunk. 41.5% of college students who drink alcohol reported usually binging when they drank" ( James Hall of the H.S.P.C). It is surprising how many high school students and college students are unsure about the legal drinking age. ... The second study conducted by the Boston University...

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Besides this law the drug has been commonly used among US citizens. ... In 1996, voters in California approved a law that relaxes regulation on medical marijuana. ... Ethan Nadelman, an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University has written about several strategies of legalizing the use of marijuana. ... This legalization strategy would allow the United States to reduce government expenditures on enforcing drug laws and would allow the United States to enjoy new tax revenue from legal drug produ...

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With the control of the Canadian government, rules and laws much like the tobacco industry can regulate the growth of the plants, along with the usage of certain pesticides and plant stimulants/steroids. ... However, if legalized marijuana would be subjected through the same laws as cigarettes and tobacco, where one may have to present identification and be of a certain age "over 16" (CBC), to obtain the substance. ... As taken from a recent poll, high school students whom "63% drink regularly" (SNN), claimed if marijuana was legalized, "83% of the students would instead switch from alcohol ...

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Marijuana on prescription basis has become legalized in nine states, but the changes in our laws are long overdue and our society can no longer postpone this decision. ... Somewhere in between providing bored high school kids something to do and being used to treat terminally ill patients marijuana has acquired the title of the "gateway drug." ... On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. ...

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Opponents to legalization are usually law enforcement and government officials. ... Law enforcement is here to make sure things continue flowing. ... Then there are the people that are going to school. ... Completing high school or at least getting your G.E.D. is a definite must for almost every job that can allow you to support yourself. Worland also talked about how 6.5 percent of high school seniors smoke marijuana daily, which has increased by 4.1 since the year 1993. ...

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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." (36123) His opinions were the same as some Americans feel today over the prohibition of drugs. ... (Unanswered) In 1996, voters in California approved a law that relaxes regulations on medical marijuana. ... Since then Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, Maine, and Nevada have passed similar laws. ... Ethan Nadelman, an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University wrote in the book Drug Abuse, Opposin...

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BONUS QUESTION The legalization of drugs is a common topic in America today. Many believe that drug use should be legalized, but I completely disagree. Drugs are frequently used today and they are illegal, the consequences that would grow if they were made legal would be more than this country c...

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The United States has taken steps to stop the use of drugs by making them illegal and enforcing this law greatly, but perhaps it is time for a new system. ... The consequences of this "war" are as followed: neighborhood turf wars and shoot-outs, family ruins, school failure and wreckage, crack babies, kids dealing drugs, addicts felled by AIDS, cops corrupted, courts and prisons over crowded, and homicides due to drug dealing (Bender 31). ... Second, there would be a reduction spent on law enforcement efforts to prosecute users and sellers of marijuana and other drugs (Marshall 92). ... Anoth...

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