Drug use is a major influential force in today's world. ... Making marijuana legal will reduce the great amount of money spent on enforcement each year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead of the enforcement process. ... The illogical pattern of the law enforcement which now treats marijuana as more dangerous than alcohol would end. ... The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget request or more likely focus more intensely on hard drugs & violent crimes. ...

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Should we make some drugs legal or should we leave it as is? ... They are selling it on the streets and even in schools but no one has made a point to enforce that it is illegal. ... A few think that marijuana is the "gateway drug". ... With that, there were specific rules that were enforced. ... We need to make some changes and enforce that all drugs are illegal and should remain that way. ...

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Although some chronically ill people and their physicians argue that the drug eases their pain and suffering, the question still is fiercely debated by law enforcement and the medical community (Donnelly 1-2).4 Modeled after underground pharmacies that provide AIDS patients with unapproved drugs, Buyer's Clubs have existed informally for at least 15 years. ... Drugs Enforcement Administration insist there are few, if any therapeutic uses of marijuana. ... The proceeds from an asset for features are divided among the law enforcement involved in the case, a policy that invites the abu...

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Coffee is the most widely used psychoactive drug beverage in the world. ... There are far worse drugs and other societal issues for the government and law enforcement agencies to worry about. ... Statistically the average marijuana smoker is arrested every 45 seconds in the U.S. and Canada; imagine how much that would free up law enforcement if not for petty arrests and citations? ... So the "War on Drugs" continued with clever advertising slogans such as: "Just Say NO to Drugs". ... The war on drugs can be focused on the severe drugs like: cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and...

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It's this drug that helps them pass the time, day after day. ... And it is becoming more common to see this helpful drug being prescribed by doctors. Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers around $10 billion annually and results in the arrest of more then 734,000 individuals each year. ... President Jimmy Carter once said "penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual then the use of the drug itself." ... How about a little fact to end on; marijuana is a stimulant and sedative drug at the same time. ...

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Personally, I know people who use this drug and think that is a load of crap. ... Some people who are against it say that it is an addictive drug. ... There are many good reasons for legalizing this drug. ... The government would also be able to reduce the number of policemen enforcing the drug regulations on this substance. ... Legalizing this drug would reduce the amount of crime related with pot use. ...

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With marijuana a lesser problem, law enforcement could concentrate on more hazardously addictive problem drugs such as amphetamines or MDMA (Extacy). ... This has led to a crackdown on marijuana and more frequent attempts at harsher legislation against the drug to be passed, but the fact still remains that marijuana is a nonlethal drug often used by people from all backrounds the same which may include alcoholism. ... Since marijuana's spread in the early-to-mid 1800's, the drug has been used to treat ailments as prescribed by doctors for pain, nerve damage, psychosis, and ...

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What's changed today is that our attitudes towards illegal drugs are becoming more sophisticated and discriminating. ... We know that it is plain nonsense to regard cannabis as a performance-enhancing drug, just as it is a myth to think the substance rots the brain or is a gateway drug. ... One major contributor to the spread of anti-legalization information is the Drug Enforcement Agency. ... The DEA is clearly opposed to the legalization of illicit drugs. ... Suddenly they are arrested, jailed and treated like criminals solely because of their recreational drug of choice. ...

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One of the main arguments stopping the decriminalization of marijuana is that it is believed to be a gateway drug. ... Using marijuana may put people, adolescents included, in contact with people who are users and sellers of other drugs. 1) The prohibition of marijuana is the very reason that there is more of a chance for a marijuana user to be exposed to, and urged to try more drugs. 2) So basically what prohibition did was created a mixed drug market, putting consumers in contact with hard drug dealers. 3) Drug use is lesser in Holland where marijuana has been decriminalized; regulatin...

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The drug of choice in college in most instances is Marijuana, but is Marijuana starting to fade away as the drug of choice? Many college students now may choose a different drug of choice, and that drug is Ecstasy. ... Since MDMA had already been patented in 1913, it held no profit potential for a drug company, as a drug cannot be patented twice and before marketing a new drug, a company has to show that the potential side effects are justified by the drug's benefits as a medicine, and this involves long and expensive trials. ... In 1985, MDMA/Ecstasy received massive media attention when...

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