Customs and Border Protection agents who are a part of the Department of Homeland Security are permitted to search you and your belongings without probable cause or a search warrant. ... However, the court has held the balancing test is more appropriate in determining reasonable search than the probable cause standard. ... Sitz, 496 U.S. 444, 445 (U.S. 1990), a majority of the Supreme Court Justices determined that the needs of the state to prevent drunk-driving accidents outweighed the minimal intrusion on sober drivers who happen to get caught up in the DUI dragnet. ... Conclusion Courts a...

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In a test of marijuana users ever trying cocaine, it shows that from 1975 to 1996 the highest it ever got was twenty five percent, and before that it was down ten to Fifteen percent. ... For more than twenty years, Dutch citizens over age eighteen have been permitted to buy and use cannabis, also in Holland; anyone more than fifteen years old can buy marijuana as easily as different flavors of ice cream. ... Some myths of marijuana and highway safety are marijuana-like alcohol- seriously impairs driving in some respects; pot is even more impairing than alcohol. I think this is true because mar...

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