Besides those two states, the rest of America has a multibillion dollar industry being run by the black market, often gangs and criminals taking in the profit instead of the government that could use it to make new schools, streets and public parks. ... While a flood of extra money and more time on law enforcer's side, the bigger concern of marijuana is its rising influence and possession in the hands of minors, especially since a third of high school seniors smoked it in the past year. ... With the height of the rate of seniors lighting up, it clearly states that pot prohibition is not w...

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The data for 1997 reveal, " that respondents arrested in the past year for possession or sale of drugs and driving under the influence had the highest percentage of illicit drug use [during] the past year" and that " illicit drug users were also about 16 times more likely than non [drug] users to report being arrested and booked for larceny or theft" and "..[were] more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the influence, drunkenness, or liquor law violations, [along with] more than [nine] times likely to be arrested and booked on assault charge[...

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