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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The legal acceptance of alcohol, however, does not exclude it from the category of a "drug," even in the eyes of the Food and Drug Administration. ... Drug smugglers tend to carry and sell hard drugs in extremely potent form (i.e. cocaine) for the same reason. ... Moreover, marijuana has been proven to be less toxic and less expensive than conventional medication and in many cases more effective than commercially available drugs ("Against Drug Prohibition" 13). ... NORML first raised this issue in 1972 in an administrative petition asking that marijuana be moved from schedule I to schedule ...

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Since there is a strong relationship between student violence and the use and sale of drugs, special efforts should be made to keep schools drug-free through both monitoring and searching. ... These services may include the efforts of religious and recreational organizations, social service, and even law enforcement agencies. ...

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Unfortunately, the "wrong hands" are not limited to those who have mental problems these days, but there are also instances where law enforcement resort to their last option before exhausting all scenarios. ... However, after enforcing tougher laws that were put in place, more firearm crimes were committed. ... Similar to those who put their mind to getting alcohol during prohibition, distributing illegal drugs or robbing a bank, once a person decides to put a plan in action only they can stop themselves. ...

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This law does work when it is actually applied to large drug dealers. ... In some cases, the amount of drugs does not even come into question. ... When mandatory sentences are used in Federal cases that do involve high-level drug dealers, the amount of cocaine consumed can be reduced 72 kilograms by per million dollars spent on enforcement. Conventional enforcement at all levels of government can reduce consumption by 27 kilograms (Caulkins 2). However, according to Caulkins, spending an extra millions dollars on enforcing mandatory sentences at all levels of government, consumption would o...

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Unfortunately, the introduction of collaboration between local police and immigration law enforcement has not made communities as safe as intended. Tensions between police officers and community members increase, as does the distrust people feel towards law enforcement (Grigsby). Not only does this collaboration increase tensions and distrust but, as CounterPunch puts it, "It is easy to imagine the [collaboration between police and immigration law enforcement] will lead to more hit and runs, as undocumented migrants involved in car accidents will fear that any police encounter could lea...

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There is no strong evidence that shows law enforcement to be corrupt, but in recent years the FBI has shown to be a little irresponsible when it comes to confiscated evidence such as drugs, firearms, etc. These superior law enforcement agencies seem to just shrug as if nothing really happened. ...

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Wealth was acquired through illegal acts such as prostitution, gambling, and drug and alcohol distribution. ... In order to have a hold on drug trafficking crime syndicates had to be centered in good geological locations to be able to receive imported drugs. Cities near water, such as New York and New Orleans made perfect places for drugs to be smuggled. Drugs then were distributed throughout the country. ... Narcotics were not the only drugs that were illegal during this time. ...

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Another reason for denying the individual right to privacy to American citizens is to battle against ""drugs," "terrorism," and "money laundering"" (Goldsmith "Current State"). ... Gottfried points out that the methods used by law enforcement to catch criminals often interfere with the lives of law-abiding citizens as well. ... Therefore the privacy of innocent people along with the suspect is being invaded by law enforcement. ... These medical records should be kept confidential because they may include medical conditions the patient does not want revealed such as mental health issues or p...

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What few people fail to realize is that this and other drugs were banned by the fault of racial intolerance. ... In 1962, a White House drug conference described the hazards of grass "exaggerated," and a 1972 presidential commission recommended decriminalization of the drug. ... Physicians of the time also used marijuana to treat headaches, insomnia, and menstrual cramps and the drug was available in most drug stores (Hermes 51). ... In my personal opinion, I feel that the only reason it is seen as a "gateway" is because in order to obtain it you have to go to a "drug dealer" who sells all ...

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The outcome was future generations of broken homes, lost heritage and tradition as well as large numbers of unemployed and poor resulting in mass depression, drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide. ... The Constitution enforced the return of fleeing slaves to their masters, empowered local government to use force against uprising slaves and ensured the Atlantic slave trade would continue to thrive in Southern territories. ...

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In other words, these obligatory drug tests are enforced by corporations on low-wage employees to ensure that they are in acceptable condition to work, although it is often unrelated to tasks they are required to do at work. Either as an employment procedure or any other job requirement and even in the absence of any reason to believe that one might be under the influence of drugs; all individuals must go through a drug test. In an article named "Workplace Drug Testing" published on March 12,2001, American Civil Liberties Union, states that "in some industries, taking a drug te...

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Most of the reason for this is drug related. Yet whites and blacks engage in drug offences, possession and sales, at roughly comparable rates (Human Rights Watch 2008).While African Americans comprise 13% of the US population and 14% of monthly drug users they are 37% of the people arrested for drug offences ( Marc Mauer of The Sentencing Project.) African Americans are arrested for drug offences at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites. ... Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project reports African Americans are 21% more likely to receive mandatory minimum sentences than white defenda...

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Organized crime has been defined in different ways by many different law enforcement agencies and researchers. ... On the basis of testimony presented by Joseph Valachi to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in 1963, the commission's Task Force on Organized Crime was able to construct an organization chart of the typical Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, family. ...

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They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather than some of them are violent. ... Regardless of family and community dependence on schools to educate, shelter, and discipline their children, most schools have difficulty playing multiple roles as educators, surrogate parents, social service, or law-enforcement agencies ( Ross, 2012). ...

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Juarez is indicative and symbolic of most cities in Mexico where many fear for their lives due to drug cartel violence or struggle to afford their next meal due to being paid next-to-nothing for backbreaking work. ...

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For insurance, medical procedures and prescription drugs, healthcare has been increasing in its cost for the consumer at a faster rate than any other industry, making legislation for a public option rational both in terms of assisting the needs of Americans but also in terms of intervening on rampant price collusion. One of the main reasons is the above-mentioned issue of insurance costs, which because of an unwillingness of the government to enforce regulation on monopolistic corporate practices, is a cause for the negative spiral of a rising expensiveness. ...

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The term capital punishment is derived from the Latin caput, meaning "head". It originally referred to death by decapitation, but now applies generally to state authorized executions. Crimes occur in every society around the world. Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt with in different ways, some of which are sentenced to death. Capital punishment has been banned in most western countries, although, countries like the United States, despite earlier attempts to eliminate capital punishment have now had an increased amount of support from several states, in the use...

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U.S. Healthcare Reform I.) Stakes and Positions Healthcare reform continues to be one of the most contentious subjects of debate in American politics. Healthcare accounts for over 16% of federal expenditures, forecasted to increase in the years ahead1. The two main political parties represent the interests of an array of interest groups and providers at state and national levels. ...

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