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. ... The drug itself does not make people violent or cause them to go out of control. ...

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In South America, the PMC DynCorp International was created to prevent the cultivation of illicit narcotics, to shut down illicit drug laboratories and networks, and to train the army and personnel of the country. ...

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For instance, most drug dealers usually sell drugs no matter whom, their goal is to sell it and get the profits. So if the marijuana becomes legal then it would only be acquired in authorized places where it would be regularized and also there would be a consumer control that can help to reduce the black market or illicit business. ... 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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Anthropologists would look into the cultural background of marijuana and find that Marijuana is the most widely used drug in North America after a alcohol and cigarettes, which are both legal. ... 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 treatment programs. ... ...

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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 Gene Callahan and William Anderson's online article, they infer that, "on the contrary, the practice of racial profiling grows from a trio of very tangible sources, all attributable to the war on drugs, that $37 billion annual effort on the part of local, state, and federal lawmakers and cops to stop the sale and use of "illicit" substances&...

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From the perspective of America's controversial war on drugs, marijuana is one of its toughest enemies. ... Small quantities of the drug have been allowed in regions such as Europe, North America and South America. ... Despite what marijuana propaganda may say, the drug can be extremely addictive for some people. ... Drew Pinsky, a doctor whose been working with addicts for decades, "Of the 7.3 million persons aged 12 or older classified with illicit drug dependence or abuse in 2012, 4.3 million persons had marijuana dependence or abuse.... In fact, a study of 129 college students ro...

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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. ... Now, advocates for the legalization of marijuana have arrived at a solution: Make the drug legal and that will decrease the prison population. ... Quick has concerns that if the drug were made readily available to adults that it will naturally begin to fall into the hands of minors as well. ... Drug possession offend...

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