The Drug Enforcement Administration The topic that I was assigned to write about was Federal Agency. Of the many agencies available to write about I chose the Drug Enforcement Administration, (DEA) which enforces controlled substance laws. ... The Drug Enforcement Administration is a United States Department of Justice Law Enforcement agency tasked with suppressing the sale of recreational drugs of abuse and enforcing the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The History of the Drug Enforcement Administration The long, proud, and honorable tradition of the federal drug enforcement agency be...

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The federal government, since the beginning the war of drug, spends approximately ten billion dollars a year on drug enforcement agencies and programs, and another estimated one hundred and ninety billion dollars a year on investigating drug related crimes, prosecution of alleged drug activities, and enforcing punishments and/or imprisonment. ... The law enforcement used in this "war of drugs" has their time nearly monopolized by the approximate thirty to forty million people yearly who purchase and use drugs. This inherently leaving various law enforcement agencies with less ability to confro...

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Unfortunately, drugs are still being circulated, and drug addicts run rampant. ... Perhaps the spending should shift from law enforcement and penalization to prevention, education, and treatment. ... To ensure maximum compliance, the act was aggressively enforced. ... After the creation of the Drug Enforcement Agency, "Operation Intercept" was initiated; which obligated Mexico to monitor its marijuana farmers. ... Clinton also increased the spending for prevention and rehabilitation programs; however a majority of policy spending was used for eradication and law enforcement. ...

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Marijuana: The Illegal Herb The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) currently lists marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug. A Schedule 1 drug, to law enforcement, is any illegal substance, which is used only for recreation. ... If this drug is more readily available than it is already, the theory is that usage of the drug will increase. ... This, in turn, becomes a problem for law enforcement and the courts, as crime associated with the drug trade blossoms. ... The negative socioeconomic effects of a drug and its use in a population do not simply disappear if the drug is legalized. ...

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Marijuana: The Illegal Herb The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) currently lists marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug. A Schedule 1 drug, to law enforcement, is any illegal substance, which is used only for recreation. ... If this drug is more readily available than it is already, the theory is that usage of the drug will increase. ... This, in turn, becomes a problem for law enforcement and the courts, as crime associated with the drug trade blossoms. ... The negative socioeconomic effects of a drug and its use in a population do not simply disappear if the drug is legalized. ...

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The United States spent roughly one billion dollars on marijuana enforcement last year and the Drug Enforcement Agency has proposed a four hundred percent increase in anti-pot spending within the next ten years yet domestic marijuana has only been reduced by ten percent (NORML 2). ... In 1985, MDMA/Ecstasy received massive media attention when a group of people sued the United States Drug Enforcement Agency to try to prevent them from outlawing the drug by placing it on Schedule I (Narconan 2). The Drug Enforcement Agency utilized a law, recently passed in Congress, to put an emergency ban o...

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Abstract Hiring and retaining more women provides numerous important advantages to law enforcement agencies. ... The Kitchen Is Closed The Hiring and Retention of Women in Law Enforcement "A man's got to do what a man's got to do. ... Only 12.7% of all sworn law enforcement positions in large agencies were held by women in 2001. ... There is a crisis in law enforcement today. ... We screen for drug use, criminal background, but we don't do much screening for people who can get along with other peopleA good cop knows how to defuse the situation by talking it out. ...

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However, the federal government and its drug enforcement agencies claim there is no distinction in federal law. ... Classified as a Schedule I drug, cannabis belongs to the most restrictive categories for psychoactive drugs in the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) five categories. Drugs in this category meet three criteria: the drug has high potential for abuse; the drug has not therapeutic value; the drug is not safe for medicinal use. ... Today's marijuana is far stronger than it was two or three decades ago; therefore, a wide margin of safety would be enforced when its used ...

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Drug trafficking is a global black market system dedicated to the cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and sale of drugs. ... Originally drug trafficking occurred in the Caribbean islands and Europe, yet currently underdeveloped states have become major drug trafficking routes. ... Peripheral states are more involved in the drug trade. ... Core states depend on peripheral and semi peripheral states for drug supply as they claim 82.6% of drug production. ... The black market enforced LDC into bribery and illicit capital flow such as money laundering, which has created poverty to tremendous...

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The link between drug use and crime is not a new one and numerous studies show that drugs use directly relates to crime in multiple ways. ... 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 "..... A study conducted for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, for exam...

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The Drug Courier Profiles were developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration in the 1980's, the public policy has been used to profile individuals based off of their appearance through this policy. Through the "Say No to Drugs" campaign, the Drug Enforcement Administration found it necessary to include race and ethnicity as components of profiles used to apprehend drug dealers and traffickers. Since the implantation of "The Drug Courier Profiles," ordinary citizens, have claimed to be racially profiled by law enforcement while driving, often referred to as "d...

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With different drugs having alternatives, the shift in supply of one drug only increases the supply and demand of its substitute. ... As the reality of the approach became clearly undeniable, leaders like President Nixon moved the approach to drug policy to intensely concentrate on the enforcement of laws with the belief that it would be a more accurate way to deal with the issue.3 As upheld by "The War on Drugs," one principle segment on which the drug war in the United States was constructed was mainly through law enforcement.4 As a result of a system that only targeted drug abus...

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History of Drug Abuse Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. ... Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement Administration) began a campaign to portray marijuana as a powerful, addicting substance that would lead users into narcotics addiction. ... The act dealt with prevention and treatment of drug abuse as well as control of drug traffic. ... Prescription drugs are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration. ... See also drug addiction and drug abuse . ...

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According to the Auditor General's report, this translates to $500 million for annual enforcement of drug laws, another $500 million for legal fees, and another conservative estimate of $50,000 per year for each incarcerated offender. ... The LEAP program is Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Founded on March 16, 2002, LEAP is a non-profit organization made up of current and former members of the law enforcement and criminal justice communities who are speaking out about the failures of our existing drug policies. Leap has a mission to create "a system of legalization and regulation tha...

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In time, other components were added such as enforcement, treatment, education, and pre-venting for the would-be user. ... New avenues for supply and demand reduction were added such as Coast Guard, Customs, and Drug Enforcement Administration operatives charged with intercepting drug shipments into the United States from foreign ports. ... Zero tolerance meant: (1) that if there were no drug abusers there would be no drug problem, (2) that the market for drugs is created not only by availability, but by demand, (3) that drug abuse starts as a willful act, (4) that the perception that drug u...

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By criminalizing drugs, it's enforcement is not particularly effective; it saddles the criminal-justice systems with huge costs; it feeds organized criminal gangs; it causes official corruption; and it leads to large numbers of violations of civil liberties# . ... What it doesn't tell you is that hysterical drug enforcers are burning down and permanently destroying the precious and sacred Coca plants of the Columbian people. ... If drugs were decriminalized, there would be no need for a black market of drugs. ... With the legalization of drugs, billions of dollars per year would b...

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Before the current spotlight on drugs in West Africa, many traffickers ran into little resistance from domestic and foreign enforcements, because the region wasn't considered an area of large production. ... Cocaine Cocaine is a high valued drug all over the world. ... However around 2004, heightened US and European anti-drug law enforcement and border control increased their efforts to mitigate the trafficking, which forced smuggling to occur further south into West Africa5. ... Because of this heavy traffic along the 10th parallel, it is fairly easy to smuggle large amounts of cocaine i...

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For more than 50 years, drug prohibition, with an emphasis on enforcement through criminal justice measures, has been the policy of the United States as well as rest of the world's countries (Levine 2002). ... Drug prices have also continued to fall, and drugs remain easily available for much of the population (Wodak 2014). ... Violence in drug markets is one of the negative effects of drug prohibition (Miron 2001). ... Because of an aggressive law enforcement campaign against the use and sale of illegal drugs, the rate of incarceration for drug offenses increased nearly tenfold from 1980...

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I believe that drugs should continue to be banned because it helps enforce fair competition, protect the health of the athletes and will continue to have a positive effect on Australian society and world sports. ... It has become knowledge that drugs do have adverse effect on health. ... It should also be pointed out the damaging health effects of drug consumption. ... By enforcing that all enhancing drugs be banned, we create a positive effect on society and the future of the sporting world. ... If drug testing stopped, or if drugs were allowed to enhance an athlete's ability, it would...

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Alternative To the War on Drugs The illegal usage of drugs is very prevalent in our country today. ... Although many people feel that decriminalizing drugs would increase the amount of use, drugs should be decriminalized because it will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement, decrease crime rates and it will increase our country's revenue. ... Drug decriminalization would also lead to a decrease in drug related crime. ... Drug decriminalization would allow drug users to seek medical attention without heavy repercussions. ... The war on drugs also permits...

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The population of drug users includes a wide variety of different peoples as well, one can see the use of drugs spans across a spectrum of people of various backgrounds. Other aspects relating to the frequency of drug use by individuals can also demonstrate how diverse the population of drug users is, as well as it brings up the issue of differentiating between using, abusing, and being dependent on drugs. ... As the human race has developed not only have laws changed regarding drugs, but the drugs themselves have evolved. ... As time has progressed, one can see how technological improvemen...

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Should drug testing be mandatory to gain employment? ... If an employer hires individuals who abuse drugs they may be at risk of endangering the safety of other employees. ... If you hire drug users onto your workforce you may also be inviting drug activity to your place of work. We already know that drug activity usually causes carelessness. ... Without the right to screen potential employees for drug use many people can slip through the cracks, companies need to be able to enforce mandatory screening for new hires and existing employees....

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Legalization would result in purity assurance, labeled concentration of the product, obliteration of pushers, obliteration of drug crime, savings in expensive enforcement, and significant tax revenues. ... In sum, the drug market is already saturated with a combination of legal and illegal drugs. ... The Netherlands provides another great example, as they have chosen not to enforce their anti-drug laws, exhibiting tolerance in hopes that the people will learn for themselves. ... This led to a great push for non-enforcement of existing anti-drug laws. ... While legalizing drugs is not a stateme...

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Legalization would result in purity assurance, labeled concentration of the product, obliteration of pushers, obliteration of drug crime, savings in expensive enforcement, and significant tax revenues. ... In sum, the drug market is already saturated with a combination of legal and illegal drugs. ... The Netherlands provides another great example, as they have chosen not to enforce their anti-drug laws, exhibiting tolerance in hopes that the people will learn for themselves. ... This led to a great push for non-enforcement of existing anti-drug laws. ... While legalizing drugs is not a stateme...

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That is the amount of money spent on the War on Drugs each year-$1,271 per second spent on law enforcement, incarceration, and interdiction. ... Enforcement of drug laws causes law enforcement officers to be more confrontational, preventing public trust. ... McNamara is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group started by retired law enforcement officials who have fought in the war on drugs and believe that war cannot be won (Martin 2009). ... Drug enforcement laws do not prevent drug trafficking nor the violence associated with the illegal trade. ... If this were a l...

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