Finally they would find out how much it is costing government to enforce Canada's pot laws is estimated at 300 million dollars, with only 20,000 people arrested on marijuana possession charges each year. ... Taxes from the legalized selling of marijuana could be used to help those who have problems with more seriously harmful drugs also the money that the government spends on enforcing the marijuana laws could be used in the same way. ... This money could be used to help with more illicit drug trade with stuff like cocaine and heroin and funding overall drug use prevention and treatme...

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The War on Drugs in this sense is convenient; instead the War on Drugs should be understood as a special case of what war has always been on how force and violence against certain communities pertains to certain political objectives. ... In Bob Herbert's article, "hounding the innocent" (1999), he asserts that the authority (justice system) in the United States enforces law based on ethnic profiling. ... In the discussion about the extent of racial profiling, "most Americans have no idea of the extent of the raced-based profiling that is carried out by the law-enforcement o...

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Finally the societal reaction perspective, also known as the labeling perspective, will be applied to a specific form of deviance, illicit drug use. ... Moral entrepreneurs actively campaign to have certain values promoted and denounced, and to try and create and enforce standards for themselves and society. The next stage in Becker's process is the application and enforcement of the created rules, which is the determination of when, where, how and why certain acts will be deviant. ... The second stage, in which the deviance is defined, can take many forms such as...

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Castells said this business relied upon a system of supply and demand poorer countries supply to the strong western demands within, for example, the sex and drugs industries. ... An example of this would be in Los Angeles, which has seen a surge in the drugs trade due to de-industrialization. ... Glocalisation is also explicitly seen within the drugs trade, as Class A drugs on the streets of the UK are unlikely to have been produced here but rather in places such as South America. ... This can be observed in Winlows study of bouncers, men who legitimately worked as bouncers but participated i...

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Marijuana is, by definition, a drug. ... Marijuana, like other drugs, has been known to impair a person's judgment and ability to function; yet unlike other drugs, "not a single person has ever died from a weed overdose " (Wing par. 1). ... The first is that the legalization of marijuana would allow the U.S. government to tax the drug. ... Gieringer approximations that an average of "4700 tons " of marijuana is smoked in America per year, and that "the total direct savings to government in taxes and enforcement come to some $8 - $16 billion per year " (par. 6). ... Drugs are widely label...

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Most commonly, individuals may start by committing property crimes such as shoplifting, burglary of cars and houses and selling drugs. ... As a direct factor they often become depressed and turn to the use of drugs and alcohol, proportionately leading to the committing of more crimes. ... In my experiences in law enforcement I have witnessed these problems first hand. ...

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The final bond is that of belief and it deals with a connection to society's value system and respect for laws, and the people and institutions which enforce such laws. ... Along with the six family conditions we will be examining six different behavioral outcomes; property crime, violent crime, mental disorder, alcoholism, drug addiction, and status offenses. ... Juvenile delinquency studies have also found significantly high rates of alcoholism, drug dependence, mental disorders, and sexual deviance among juveniles who's parents have been incarcerated. ... With adoption, the crimin...

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" With these lacking, Monke also states that "We should not be surprised when they "solve" personal and social problems by turning to drugs, guns, hateful Web logs, or other powerful "tools," rather than digging deep within themselves or searching out others in the community for support.... The internet has its own culture, its own way of communicating, no law enforcement, no national boundaries as well as free access to every kind of information known to mankind. ...

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The prohibition movement and the drug trade policy were very substantial problems in the 1920s and 1930s (Sutherland, 1924). ... Law enforcement as a whole comes to an understanding about legal norms when their cultural and behavioral aspects are also on the same page. The fifth proposition says that the lower the power of the individual the higher the need for law enforcement (Turk, 1969). The lower the economic status of the individual the higher law enforcement will be in that social structure. ... If there is a good amount of individuals committing crime in an area then there will also be ...

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The chapters do however, meet once a week or a month to go over their progress and what still needs to be done, but no one is forced to attend, freedom of decision being re enforced. ... (The Food Not Bombs Movement) In October, the same year, Food Not Bombs organized what they called "Boston Pee Party", which was a form of protest against the drug testing law given by President Reagan. ...

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He argues that USA's society produces crime by enforcing the need to achieve American dream by turning to illegitimate means. ... From these surveys the criminal justice system (CJS) can see how frequently people commit crimes that they would not admit to directly to the police, for example, under age drinking/smoking, doing drugs or even illegal downloading. ...

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Research has also explored behavioral predictors of employee theft indicating that individuals involved in employee theft are likely to be involved in other deviant behaviors such as alcohol, and/or drug abuse, and/or gambling (Hollinger & Clark;, 1983). ...

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Marketing techniques aim to get the product sold, and hence there is a tendency to keep any 'negative' information to a minimum, in advertising to the general public, as in the case of the high-oestrogen oral contraceptive pill, Maya.5 Thus it is not The Journal of Social Studies/30 It's hard to imagine a situation where unrestricted promotion of birth-control measures help to convert the Bangladesh market into a dumping ground for drugs or contraceptives rejected by developed societies or as an experimental ground for trying new ones. ...

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