With fewer tax dollars going towards the Drug Enforcement Agency, law enforcement, and court systems, programs such as after school sports and performing arts centers would be better funded. ... My first two marriages ended because of drug use by my spouses. ... After my second marriage failed due to drug use I felt very alone. ... Drugs changed their entire personality. ... Drug use destroys your body. ...
One possibility for controlling drug abuse is to legalize illegal drugs. ... Legalizing drugs is a viable alternative to the current policy on drugs in America. ... The market for drugs is one of supply and demand and people demand illegal drugs. ... Our legal system would be freed up and our prison population dramatically reduced saving billions and leaving law enforcement to catch and prosecute violent criminals. ... In Holland, where drugs laws are more flexible, drug usage has not gone up. ...
"Enforcement agents have to patrol some 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico" (Johnson 80). With United States border inspection stations and the enforcement agents patrolling the border there are still thousands of miles of unguarded border with Mexico that are not patrolled every hour and every day of the week. ... Traffickers walk or drive through the border into the United States hiding illegal substances from enforcement officials: "There aren't enough Customs workers, D.E.A., or police officers to seal off the borders from drug smugglers" (80). ... "Th...
Drugs problems in South America are certainly not a recent issue. ... The newly enforced anti-drug regulations outraged the drug cartels and they began to lash out against the government, as some of the most powerful and dangerous drug-lords were arrested and put behind bars. ... Drug Enforcement Agency, 2004). ... In 2007 while Calderon government was being enforced the price per gram of cocaine in the U.S. began to increase, with a correlative drop in cocaine purity. ... Supposedly, any methamphetamine super lab that lies along the United States/Mexico border had/has plans to send the drug...
Enforce the law In the United States, the legal drinking age for all fifty states and the District of Columbia is twenty-one years of age. ... Why keep a law that cannot be enforced? If the repercussions from the problem of breaking the law are few and light to most people, why enforce the law at all? The fact that I would like to be involved in counseling young children through their problems of abusing alcohol and drugs still makes me consider the legal drinking age in the United States. For now I say the age must be lowered or better enforced. ...
Drug Testing Making a person take a drug test violates their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights under the constitution of the United States of America. ... There is a very large possibility for an error on a drug test. ... Law enforcement does not get access to the records and there should be some way set up by the state to enforce that the test are private. ... They are forced to take drug test without probable cause. Drug testing should not be allowed for many reasons. ...
Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. ... "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws. ... The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget requests, or, more likely, focus more intensely on hard drugs and violent crimes. ... The illogical pattern of law enforcement, which now treats marijuana as more dangerous as alcohol, would end. ...
Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. ... "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws. ... The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget requests, or, more likely, focus more intensely on hard drugs and violent crimes. ... The illogical pattern of law enforcement, which now treats marijuana as more dangerous as alcohol, would end. ...
The courts have made an exception when it comes to enforcing our borders. ... During a checkpoint, law enforcement officers are stopping every driver at checkpoint. ... Law enforcement officers are allowed to use drug dogs without reasonable suspicion at check points and road blocks. ... Ct. 834) the Supreme Court ruled if a vehicle is being lawfully detained police do not need reasonable suspicion to use drug dogs to sniff a vehicle. ... If drug dogs are on site they are allowed to sniff around your vehicle without having probable cause. ...
The enforcement of alcohol also cost the government large sums of money. After the first year of enforcement, America lost 5 million dollars. ... Both cases involved in some way the banning of a mind altering drug or drugs. ... This so called "War on Drugs" has done nothing to lessen illegal drug use in the US. ... I'm not saying that all drugs should be made legal, just the so called "Soft Drugs" like Cannabis and Phsycadelics. ...
Athletes are one of the biggest topics in drug testing today. ... Drug testing may or may not violate any of these functions. ... Second, test results are not made available to law enforcement officials, and, hence, cannot be grounds for criminal prosecution. ... To test for only one drug costs two dollars. To test for six drugs costs seven dollars. ...
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 government has placed restrictions on people's decision to use drugs, other than alcohol and tobacco, and they enforce it by filling prisons with non-violent drug users. ... Second, there would be a reduction spent on law enforcement efforts to prosecute users and sellers of marijuana and other drugs (Marshall 92). ... Another argument is that only through law enforcement and criminal justice pressure do addicts receive treatm...
This is not sure however ; just because they are now cheaper why would no drug users start taking the drugs? ... "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." ... "Even if only half the effect is attributed to the war on drugs, 5,000 extra homicides a year and 45,000 extra prisoners is a high cost, and that pri...
Alcohol/Drug Abuse Today alcohol is accepted in a social gathering or in a rich environment. ... Programs like D.A.R.E. tells kids from an early age how bad drugs and alcohol can be, so they know when that time comes for their first party or event that evolve such substances. No success has really shown in anybodies fight against alcohol/drugs. ... They will continue to always have groups to help the addicted and to teach the young about the bad things that these drugs can bring to your life. ... Enforcement of prohibition became very difficult. ...
The Mafia participated in many illegal activities, but drug trafficking was one they seemed to flourish in. Their drug related activities posed a threat not only to the adult population who used drugs but also to the children involved as their agents. ... "In New York, law enforcement increased to where most major bosses were found guilty. ... This sudden increase in law enforcement made many Mafia bosses Curran 4 nervous. ... Most major organized crime families were eventually put out of order by law enforcement or destructed from the inside, but today in some parts of our country, man...
Also, The Anti-Drug AbuseAct of 1988 calls for the death penalty for all drug related killings. ... The death penalty was enforced 45 times. ... In 1995 Hart Research Associated Poll asked law enforcement officers what they thought would help the deteration of crime. 31% said reduce drug abuse; 17% said better economy and jobs; 16% simplify court rules; 15% longer prison sentence; 10% more police officers; 3% reducing guns; and 1% expand death penalty. ... The only way to deter crime is to prevent it from happening, rather then enforce harsh punishment to "scare" off potential crimes. ... ...
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. ...
Also, The Anti-Drug abuse act of 1998 calls for the death penalty for all drug related killings. ... In addition, The Drug Kingpin act sates the use of death penalty for convicted major drug dealers caught with huge quantities of drugs, over 66Ibs of heroin and 330Ibs of cocaine. ... "The proposed drug death penalty is not only barbaric but also foolish: a temper tantrum masquerading as an act of government. It holds no promise for suppressing the drug trade, and may even be counterproductive" (Franklin E. ... The only way to deter crime is to prevent it from happening, rather then enforcing...
Teenagers particularly are using the drug more today. ... There needs to be more done to get drugs like meth off the street. ... Many more billions are spent by the states on drug interdiction, drug-law enforcement, and drug prosecutions. ... Crystal Meth is a terrible drug. The drug causes addiction and is invading the United States. ...
FBI Agent What would it be like to live as an FBI agent? The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the chief investigating branch of the United States Department of Justice. The FBI is responsible for investigating 260 kinds of federal offenses. The agents collect information about individuals o...
Gangs in Jackson are responsible for drive-by shootings, murders, drug activity, and violence. He says that most of the gang members have migrated from Chicago and Detroit to capitalize on the drug market. ... A crack cocaine epidemic began in the mid-1980's and public concern of drugs and violence combined with youth gangs heightening. ... The role model may end being a criminal or drug addict. ... Since joining a gang gives direct access to the drug trade, with time it is easy to gain knowledge as to who the main dealers and suppliers are, and who the runners are, to deliver the drugs...
Among these are drug use, polygamy, and homicide in the name of religion. ... When religious acts break the law, it is rather difficult to enforce those laws. The very same laws that were designed to protect the citizens, are put into question, for fear that if they are enforced, someone's religious rights are being infringed upon. ... Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990), the Supreme Court ruled that the Free Exercise clause cannot exempt a person from drug laws. ... We live in a country that prohibits private drug use, but protects parents who let their children die of easily preventable disease...
The increase of enforcement is one of the few things that has ever been able to decrease illegal immigrants from trying to cross our borders. ... Drugs have been a major issue for the United States to handle. ... The United States has to stop these drugs from coming over. A decrease in the amount of drugs in the United States would also create a lower crime rate, where drug possession is high. Gangs in America would also have a lower supply of drugs. ...
"The list of people banned from buying guns has expanded to include people convicted of any non-business related felony, the mentally challenged, and users of illegal drugs" (Guncite 1). In 1972, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms was created to control the illegal use and sale of firearms and to enforce the federal firearm laws (US Gov. ... The "fingerprints" can then be entered into a computer and are accessible to law enforcement agencies. ... The IBIS system will increase law enforcement's ability to link guns with crimes. ... Common sense would tell us that this would no...
In the 5th century B.C. the Roman law of the Twelve Tablets enforced the death penalty among its rule. ... Imagine if we still had and enforced these types of deaths today, and you think a firing squad is bad. ... Mosaic Law led the way in enforcing capital crime and what constitutes the death penalty. ...
