Despite the high risk, the pure profit opportunity lures people to continue to take part in this market. ... This is what attracts the usual poor person or people to take part in this illegal market. ... In a May 1998 speech, President Clinton declared, "Up to $500 billion in criminal proceeds every single year "more than the GNP of most nations "is laundered, disguised as legitimate revenue, and much of it moves across our borders." As much as $100 billion a year in drug trafficking cash moves through the U.S. financial system. ... Some people say that legalization of some or a...

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People lie, steal, and manipulate. ... With this I would like to move on to alcohol and tobacco prohibition for minors. ... But what about all the people who never make it to recovery. ... Where would our country be if we allowed people to walk around nude? ... We like to think that we have moved forward as a society than in the beginning of time. ...

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I got to feed people's addictions, soothe their ailments, and heal their sicknesses. Working so close with people in such a vulnerable state, gave me the opportunity to see human nature in its weakest form and gave me a sense of purpose and control. ... They waited, anxiously tapping their fingers on the countertop or watching each move I made, just so they can feel the relief of having a full bottle of their drug in their hands. ... It was sad to see how many drugs there were behind the counter and how many people needed each drug. What I gained from working at the pharmacy was a depress...

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No matter how the message is conveyed, those listeners that want to be influenced or moved by music always readily absorb it. ... Your lips move but I can't hear what you say. ... He describes how disorientating the drugs make him and the how he feels misunderstood by people who are not on the drug. ... Many young people, who face the question of trying a drug in their young age or walking away from it, may rely on their perception of their favorite artist or group. ...

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To some conservative people, this seems counter-intuitive, but in reality, it's really quite simple. ... The illicit element which attracts many younger people would be, for the most part, gone. ... Legalization of drugs would mean that people who have drug problems could be helped by government programs. ... It's ludicrous to me that so many people are brought up before the court on possession charges - it just strikes me as an utter waste of time. If we're really aiming to stop drug use, keeping it illicit and illegal is the absolute worst move we can make. ...

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Rosa Lee`s parents were black rural share croppers from the South who moved to Washington D.C. in order to escape racial oppression, economic exploitation and segregation and to find a better life and work there. ... She moved with and without her grandmother and mother from one low-income housing complex in Washington to another. ... At this point I can understand people getting angry at families like Rosa Lee`s, because they see how their tax money is being spent on crack and heroin instead of on food, clothes and medicine. ... She also stole change out of the pockets from people in chur...

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People under estimate the dangers of this futile drug. In fact, people protest for the legislation of marijuana. Are these people mad? ... Any person who uses marijuana will eventually move on to bigger and harder drugs. ... People will correlate that since it is legal it is morally OK. ...

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But upon doing so, he threatened both her and her family and was forced to move across the country alone. ... With a drug like Propanalol, people's lives no longer need to be destroyed by the past. ... The best way to learn is to make mistakes, experience something harmful or dangerous, and move on. ... The ability to take the negatives and turn them into positives is one of the most useful things people can do. ...

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Drugs have very harmful effects on the user and the people with whom the user interacts. ... Ecperimntation with marijuana is dangerous because studies show that sixty percnt of people who smoke marijuana on a regular basis move on to try harder drugs soon after. ...

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More and more people r using drugs then ever b4 including teenagers. Our prisons can't nearly accommodate this amount of people. ... Now is the time to try and help these people. ... In January, he moved off campus into a house with four other students. ... It is URGENT that we help these people NOW to prevent further drug abuse. ...

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The criminalization of marijuana, and other substances, has violated the people's rights. ... (Marijuana Legalization) It has done little to prevent people from using the herb. ... In 1998, 76.5million people had browsed the Internet and 71 million had smoked marijuana. ... They say that by doing marijuana you are more likely to move towardshard drugs.? ... and move to thehard stuff? ...

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Drugs are how families get torn apart; it's how people lose all of their money and all of their material possessions. ... He was yelling, and cussing, and everything, and all at school where people were walking in and out of the office getting things, people I knew. ... She had moved out of it but she still owned it, so she let my mother and the rest of us live there. ... So I moved to Iowa to live with my father. ... But at least things did not get worse than what they were because sometimes drugs can do a lot more harm, like killing people. ...

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This sounds shocking, until you realize that there are approximately 4.5 people per family. ... Most people I know can get up after a show is over and move on to something else. ... I don't know too many people who watch television every few hours. A lot of the people I know only watch it a few days a week. ... While reading you are not able to consort with people at the same time. ...

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In "Sonny's Blues," by James Baldwin, Sonny and his brother, the narrator, are separated by their lifestyles. The oldest went to college while the youngest became a drug addict. It takes two simultaneous tragedies to reunite the brothers, which leads to their reconciliation. Although they had not ta...

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Final Draft The True Meaning/ Adaptation The movie Adaptation is meant to grab the attention of viewers on many levels. The basic feel of the movie is basically, what you think it is it isn't, and what it is its really not. This is done with such things as reoccurring images and hidden meanings ...

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Growing up as a child, like every other kids, in a world where one wrong move can break apart ones bright future, I am surely pleased to have overcame my childhood without laying a finger on any illegal substances. ... But today, we are not only facing the fear of what harmful effects illegal drugs has on the human body, also we must be able to identify the groups of people who are most vulnerable to the use of unlawful substances. ... From this, we can say that at this very moment there is a child or children, worldwide, deciding whether to try out those godly drugs that people say will sho...

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Nixon felt that drugs are bad, so bad people do drugs. ... Arizona also began to move legislation to approve the medicinal use of heroin and L.S.D. ... The reasons people use drugs still exist. Arresting people for drugs does not kill their desire to use them. ... More people then ever are using illegal drugs. ...

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There are a lot of people who try drugs for the first time. ... A lot of people use drugs these days. ... People in the first place think that drugs are cool. ... He told me that he was trying to move out of his house, so he needed the money. ... People who are on drugs they don't want to get helped. ...

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Even with this new law, people continued to use the drug. ... To some people marijuana is considered a "gateway" drug. ... Many people out there have no idea what it is like to be "high" so to speak. If marijuana were legalized, those people would try the drug, like it, and then perhaps move on to much more damaging drugs. ... The government seems to be always looking for new ways to tax people. ...

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The London Sun reports that Robbie has moved to Los Angeles so he can attend daily AA meetings. ... I think people could gain experience and be more mature towards different things that they come across in life. ...

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The majority of users come from a pattern originating from one substance and each time preceding to move up the scale to higher risk substances. ... I"m not proposing that we should open up a center like the one in British Columbia, but a center that would offer counseling and a chance for youth, not necessarily even have drug addictions, but rather ones who are curious about the mystery, and can see and get to know some of the people who have a disease of addiction. ...

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But most of her life she was moved in and out of foster homes. ... Project Pride was an experience I will never forget and I thank the people who were brave enough to share their stories to open up kids like them so they don't follow in their foot steps....

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On March 1, 1969, Jim Morrison exposed himself to 13,000 people during a concert in Miami. ... The excitement of performing and inciting people is not enough to quiet the demons anymore. ... Morrison's duty assignments forced his family to move from station to station: Jim lived in Pensacola, Melbourne, and Clearwater, Florida, twice in both Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico, and once each in Los Altos, Claremont, and Alameda, California before he finally attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia (Faris and Faris, p.142). ... At age fourteen, the Morrison family moved to A...

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Definition essay Addiction When most people think of addiction, they think of potheads and alcoholics. ... He would comment on my weight (which was never really a problem) and criticize my every move. ... If you think about it, people who quit smoking go through a drastic physical and personality change. So why do we expect people with drug addictions to quit and be fine? ... People lose their homes and jobs because of addictions, and can end up in financial ruin. ...

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The drug problem that our country is facing is bringing violence and addiction to many people. ... Non-regulated liquor that criminals made crippled or even killed the people who consumed them. ... With regards to drug use and young people, I believe that the number of young people addicted to drugs will not increase. ... I know people who used alcohol while underage regularly, to get a thrill out of it. ... It is time to make a serious move to solve our nation's drug problem. ...

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