The other side maintains that drug testing for welfare would be a positive change because some people believe that it would be in the best interest of the children who have parents who are using drugs, others think that drug testing welfare recipients would ensure them to use the welfare for a temporary time and get themselves back to the working field, and drug testing would give welfare to the people who really need it, rather than abusing our system. ... The opposing party also believes that the people who are receiving the welfare benefits are being discriminated against because since the...

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This is the amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs. Number of people arrested in 2011 in the U.S. on nonviolent drug charges: 1.53 million. ... Marijuana is undoubtedly the most popular illicit drug used in America. ... " Along with the profit of this illegal cash crop, there is an ongoing of drug lords and violence that coincides with the illegal trading of drugs. ... I believe that the best solution is that Marijuana should be regulated in much the same way as alcohol, and be sold only in certain types of shops such as it is now in medical dispensaries and require an age ...

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These agencies believe that marijuana should not be legalized because if marijuana is to become legal then thousands more patients would be using marijuana. ... The main reason why the Drug Enforcement Agency does not want marijuana to be legal is because there is no hard-core evidence that proves that marijuana is an effective drug as a medicine. ... The Drug Enforcement Agency along with police departments all over the United States believe with the legalization of drugs crime will increase due to a higher increase of pot users which eventually become addicts and might steal or kill in ord...

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So while marijuana may be classified as a schedule one drug, meaning that it is believed to have a high abuse potential, a lack of accepted safety, and no accepted medical use, it is apparent that the use of marijuana is having a growing acceptance in the U.S., especially in regards to its potential economic and health benefits (Schedule I). ... Opponents of the legalization of marijuana believe that our currently enacted federal laws should not change and thus stay as they are. ... However, advocates for the legalization of marijuana argue that if marijuana were to be legalized, people cou...

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Then, after showing that citizens of various states have actually approved proposals legalizing the drug for medicinal use, he gives the case against legalization; that many believe that the drug is dangerous and could have long-term effects. ... He believes that because of this and the well known fact that the drug provides relief for these patients, the government is wrong in preventing the treatment from being available; as he puts it "a federal policy that prohibits physicians from alleviating suffering by prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients is misguided, heavy handed and inhu...

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Police need citizens to report crimes, be witnesses, and believe testimony of the police when serving on juries. ... 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). ... Similarly, drug prohibition does not prevent drug abuse, and it does not help addicts recover from it. Drug enforcement laws do not prevent drug trafficking nor the violence associated with the illegal trade. ... Why is it treated as a drug while alcohol is not? ...

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Against, and For, Legalization There is, as would be expected, the age-old outcry against drugs being legal, no matter what the drug. ... The idea is to make the drug available to those in great pain. ... This is arguably due to the fact that "present classification failed to differentiate between hard drugs and cannabis, leading young people to believe that hard drugs are not dangerous and making it difficult to give convincing anti-drug advice" (Anonymous More calls for legalized cannabis 5). ... I got a case in Boston where the jurors believed, almost, that marijuana was shot into you...

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Many believe there should be legalization of marijuana but put laws on how much we can consume and in certain situations. I believe it should be legalized because the constitution does not state that a federal government to regulate or ban substances that we choose to consume. ... With that being said federal governments cannot regulate laws drugs but only the states legislatives can. ... The war on drugs has had a dramatic use when it comes in for the cost of war starting in 1971 when president Nixon went without congress approval to declare war on drugs on July 17, 1971 (Kieffer, Par11). ......

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Is saying "no to drugs" truly the case to marijuana? ... I have a friend that even uses it for his bipolar disorders instead of the prescription drugs because he says the drugs are harder on him and make him feel no emotions. Medical marijuana is a very flexible drug, cheap, and has fewer critically damaging side effects than prescription drugs. ... The United States spends more than $51 million annually on the war on drugs (DWS). 1.5 million People was arrested in 2012 on nonviolent drug charges (DWS), many of which are college students that have lost their federal financial aid eli...

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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. ... As Herbert explained, state's efforts to control drugs are also a way for dominant group to express power. ... Society has grown to believe this definition is true and will continue to be false. ... Most people believe that racial profiling was an outcome of the drug war, "but Derbyshire dismisses the argument that racial profiling is chiefly a bypro...

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" In other words, the DOJ believes that removing restrictions will open the door to a whole new group of users, and as a result, healthcare related costs will rise due to the negative physical and mental repercussions of marijuana use. ... It would appear that he believes issuing such a threat, will ward off any potential drug dealers looking to exploit America's youth. Holder's claim rests upon the questionable assumption that drug dealers will stop dealing because they are afraid of getting caught. ... Drug possession offenders by percentage Most non-violent drug users never e...

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Drugs are bad. All of our lives we've all seen the commercials, learned the slogans, saw the movies, and some witnessed personally the effects of drugs on a person. But, I am NOT talking about drugs per se, I'm talking about marijuana, across the country at this point in history, marijuana is quickly becoming a legalized drug. ... Jamelle Bouie of Theslate.com believes The war on weed was foolish and costly. ... (bourrie Individuals who have been convicted of misdemeanor charges for possessing the drug have a very difficult time securing housing, jobs and education. ...

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Today, as many as "2 million Canadians" use the drug regularly (and "100, 000 Canadians" use the drug daily) (Frank Discussion), unaware of where their marijuana is grown and who it is grown by (using what chemicals). ... By allowing drug users a legal way of stimulating and achieving a similar high, many drug addicts would decrease or all together, stop the practice of using harder drugs, such as cocaine or heroin. ... However, through the legalization of "soft drugs" like marijuana in The Netherlands, it has led to a decrease in use of drugs all together. Although marijuana may be prohi...

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When compared to currently available legal substances and drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol, marijuana seems less of a threat then pictured. ... A second reason why marijuana should be legalized is because although hard to believe marijuana has medical use. ... In fact, Israeli scientists found the skeleton of a fourth century woman who they believed died in childbirth. ... On average, we sentence nonviolent drug offenders to five times more jail time than those convicted of manslaughter. ... Also by actually legalizing it as a product and not an illegal drug the government could capitaliz...

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For example, it is highly likely that doctors may take bribes from healthy patients to prescribe the drug for recreational use. ... In addition, legal marijuana may provide drug dealers with an easy opportunity to escape prosecution for trafficking and dealing drugs. ... The majority of Republicans would respond well to this idea because they believe marijuana should remain illegal. Democrats, including Massachusetts own Barney Frank, would disagree with this approach, for they believe marijuana should be legalized for medicinal purposes. ...

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This continued through the Clinton administration with massive federal funding for the war on drugs. ... I believe the legalization of marijuana could help solve many problems we face in society. ... Billions of dollars are spent annually on prescription drugs used to lift our spirits or calm our nerves. ... This is directly related to what illegal drug sales precipitates. ... It also prevents introduction to a criminal element that could offer you harder drugs. ...

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I firmly believe marijuana should be legalized because its medical benefits overweigh its adverse effects, legalization allows governmental regulation, and because people have the freedom to do and consume what they please. ... For instance, most drug dealers usually sell drugs no matter whom, their goal is to sell it and get the profits. ... However marijuana still known as drug, which means that in some ways it affects health, but as I mentioned it as soon as marijuana is well regulated the legalization may work perfectly....

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Some believe there are two justice systems: one for whites and one for people of color. ... Since the onset of the "war on drugs" in the mid-1980s, Black Americans have been arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned for drug law offences at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. ... Records of past statistics make officers believe they have a...

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In a matter of principles in the workplace, often times the law is in favor of productivity rather than morality. Although our countries regulation claims to be based on honorable values there are situations where business economic profit is the objective and ethical ideals fall secondary to that ai...

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I believe that some government is needed to legislate laws protection wildlife and laws for the prevention of homicides, but who has the duty to say how right things such as gay marriages, drug use, the age at which one can drink and purchase alcohol is? ...

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The author also claims, "a drug like marijuana is too dangerous to legalize," and that if marijuana is legalized it will fall into the hands of children like alcohol and tobacco already do (Margolis). ... Methods For my research question I asked, "Since Washington's legalization of marijuana in 2012, do you believe it has led to increased marijuana use among teenagers?... When I was able to talk with some of the individuals about their responses on why they felt it was not harming teens, I found a similar pattern: no one believed marijuana is a big deal and legalization is ...

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Because it is not specifically mentioned in our country's constitution they believe that the right to personal privacy should not exist in the United States. Another reason for denying the individual right to privacy to American citizens is to battle against ""drugs," "terrorism," and "money laundering"" (Goldsmith "Current State"). It is believed that by removing privacy these aspects of American culture will also be removed and the United States will be a safer place to live. ... These medical records should be kept confidential because they may include medical conditions the patient...

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There is direct discrimination which occurs when one is treated worse than another based on a certain characteristic that one of them holds, for example, a Hispanic man being searched for procession of drugs with no other reason other than then that he is Hispanic. ... Perceptive discrimination, which occurs when someone believes that one, has a certain characteristic regardless of them having it or not, for example indirect discrimination occurs when a policy for everyone puts down certain individuals with a certain characteristics such as wearing a shirt without a tie. ...

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Mongols have a long history of run in with the law and law enforcement involving drug dealing, money laundering, robbery, extortion, firearm violations, murder, and assault among others. ... It is believed to be the first case in the nation in which the government has sought to take control of a gang's identity, via its logo, through a court order. ...

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Taking this information into Consideration I believe that the use of Marijuana for those over the age of twenty- one should be legal in all states. ... A 2010 Cato Institute study revealed that if all states legalized cannabis sales, the reduced drug enforcement costs and higher tax revenues would be worth more than $17 billion. ...

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