In the case of the war against drugs, years of fighting have caused increased crime, overcrowding of prisons and the wasted use of money and resources with no results. ... Supporters of illegalization say that legalization would result in increased use and eventually will mean an increase in cancer deaths with greater marijuana smoking.(Light) Another result they say will happen is the effects of family values as a result of increased marijuana used by parents and children. Actually, the legalization of marijuana would put money which is used for law enforcement into the construction of better...

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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. We simply just spent too much money each year implementing drug laws. ... The estimated cost of housing the increasing number of non-violent drug offenders is some $315 million a year. ... Taxes should immediately be placed on drugs thus resulting in a significant increase in government income. The more money that governme...

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This would not only cause the company to lose money due to productivity loss, but it would cause the employee to feel alienated and feel mistreated compared to others. ... Much of the time, the drug users have stable lives, own enough money to buy drugs, and are active members of society. ... Once that will happen, companies will begin to understand that drug testing does not increase work productivity. ... If these objectives are met, companies will be able to increase their productivity while keeping the workplace safe, and maintaining the trust between the employees....

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Many people say marijuana use would increase if it were to be legalized. ... The results revealed no increase in usage. ... Some short term effects the user may experience may include sleepiness, increased heart rates, blood shot eyes and dry mouth. ... According to National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), between 1992- 1997 there was a 16 percent increase in the usage of marijuana amongst 12th graders. ... If the government decriminalized marijuana, not only would they save money that they would have been spending on the war on drugs, but they could control the substance more effectivel...

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Others, make the claim that the legalization of marijuana would actually bring an increase in the use of other drugs, an increase in violent crime, and create a virtual nightmare for law enforcement. ... In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a sharp increase in marijuana use among adolescents and young adults. ... This money could be used, to give an example, to fund drug prevention programs in our schools or community centers. ... All this money would be made available to fund other programs, should marijuana be legalized. Now, put the money we can save by not fighting a war on mari...

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Opponents state that with legalization would come an increase not only in availability, but also with everything associated with that availability. This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent alike, increases in health-care costs, cost to employers, drug-related crimes, and increases in various other social, economic, and emotional costs. ... (Duke 119-120) Controversially, legalization adversaries such as Robert DuPont argue that the inevitable result of legalization would be increased drug use, along with increased addiction and death rate. ... Followin...

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Opponents state that with legalization would come an increase not only in availability, but also with everything associated with that availability. This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent alike, increases in health-care costs, cost to employers, drug-related crimes, and increases in various other social, economic, and emotional costs. ... (Duke 119-120) Controversially, legalization adversaries such as Robert DuPont argue that the inevitable result of legalization would be increased drug use, along with increased addiction and death rate. ... Followin...

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The Office of national Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) summarizes the drug to crime relationship in three ways: [d]rug defined offenses, [which are] violations of laws prohibiting or regulating the possession, use, distribution or manufacture of illegal drugs, [d]rug related offenses, to which a drug's pharmacologic effects contribute; offenses motivated by the user's need for money to support continued use; and offenses connected to drug distribution itself [and the] [d]rug using lifestyle, a lifestyle in which the likelihood and frequency of involvement in illegal activity are increas...

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The federal government, seeing the increase of marijuana use, passed new drug laws. ... Proponents say marijuana should be legal because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on enforcement. ... All of this extra money from marijuana legalization could be used efficiently toward unemployment or stabilizing social security benefits. Conservatives believe that legalization of marijuana would increase the amount of drug use throughout the world. ... Sherry Stevens, a high school teacher, said, "Legalization of marijuana would increase the number of younger users. ...

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S. spent on the justice system in 1999 3, it would be far better to put the money into methods that get better results. Since the enactment of mandatory minimum sentencing for drug users, the Federal Bureau of Prisons budget increased by more than 1,350%, from $220 million in 1986 to about $3.19 billion in 1997. A large portion of the money spent on long prison sentences is being wasted, instead of being spent on the people who are contributing much more to the spread of drugs. Because drug-related crime is often economically motivated, incarceration has little effect on the flow of money be...

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Every legitimate working American pays taxes to the State and Federal government, that money must then distributed for different purposes, including welfare. The government does not collect tax money to support the habits of drug users. ... The money saved from eliminating drug users from the welfare system could be utilized to increasing drug treatment programs, drug education or perhaps a national health care system. ...

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As a result of globalization, there has been an increased amount of organized crime moving across international borders, and no longer is it simply a national concern, but a global one, as it affects people all over the world, and not those of a single state. ... Nations now face increased security at all points of entry, which is how the majority of the world's products are shipped, maintaining a large security arm is a huge burden economically for nations across the world. ... They both seek increasing shares of the fortunes generated from drug trafficking and other crimes. ... Investm...

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Manufacturing output increased, productivity costs fell, corporate profits boomed, luxury spending increased all in effect due to the government's increased speculation inflating the money and credit supply--leading to an oversupply of goods. ...

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Sometimes men in China to support their addictions would sell their wives and children, and ultimately become bums, begging for money to attain more opium. ... It comes down to the harsh realization that there was a lot of money to be made in the trafficking of opium. ... Maybe it's the idea of kicking back, smoking some opium, and then relaxing with your friends, but whatever it is, there is something about the drug that made the addiction rate in China increase exponentially. ...

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Drug-related problems cost U.S. companies more than $102 billion each year in lost productivity, accidents, employee turnover, increased health care costs, and absenteeism. ... Between 1991 and 1992, there was a 62% increase in the amount of sexual harassment complaints reported to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). ... In order to keep lawsuits, and therefor extreme money losses, to a minimum due to sexual harassment many companies have established a sexual harassment policy and offer sexual harassment prevention programs. ...

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The act of gambling which is defined as playing a game in which you can win or lose money or possessions, to bet on an uncertain outcome, or to stake something on a contingency (Merriam-Webster). ... The ten criteria listed in the DSM-IV are a preoccupation with gambling, a need to gamble with increasing amounts of money in order to achieve the desired level of excitement, repeated, unsuccessful efforts to control, cut back, or stop gambling, feeling restless or irritable when attempting to cut down or stop gambling, using gambling as a way of escaping from problems or of relieving a dysphoric...

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(7) Marijuana smoke has five times as much "tar" as cigarette smoke and significantly increases chance of lung cancer, inflammation and infection... (3) Since some bronchial cell changes appear to be pre-cancerous in frequent users, an increased risk of cancer must be considered for this group. ... That study was based on interviews with methamphetamine users and found users reported eradication had increased the price of marijuana. ... (1) That is a high percent of increase in marijuana abuse. ... Millions of dollars in federal drug enforcement money began to flow into Hawaii, but ...

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Opium dens increased. ... In the 1950s, use of marijuana increased again, along with that of amphetamines and tranquilizers. The social disturbance of the 1960s brought with it a dramatic increase in drug use and some increased social acceptance; by the early 1970s some states and districts had decriminalized or legalized marijuana and lowered drinking ages. ... The Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 increased funding for treatment and rehabilitation; the 1988 act created the Office of National Drug Control Policy. ... It became so only after mankind learned to increase the efficiency and...

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In a letter written by Emily Murphy, famously known as a Canadian woman's rights activist, to the Magistrate she described the Chinese as drug peddlers whose "habit forming drugs are destroying and enslaving a steadily increasing number of our people." In her letter, Murphy explicitly associates the Chinese with opium claiming, "they waste up their good money for smoking opiums and so let their families, such as their father, mother, sisters, and young brothers starving at China. ... This head tax aggressively increased over the years to $100 in 1900 to $500 in 1903. ... This p...

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The use of Ecstasy at raves/dance clubs is the greatest cause of death because Ecstasy affects the body temperature control and dancing for long periods of time in a hot atmosphere increases the risk of users overheating and dehydrating (losing too much body fluid) which can be fatal. 2.) ... However most Ecstasy, that is sold/distributed on the street, contains little or no MDMA and due to the increased demand for the drug, the purity has decreased and Ecstasy is now laced with other amphetamines or hallucinogens such as speed, LSD, caffeine, ephedrine, ketamine, rat poison, baking soda, ...

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Instead, to a higher or lower level, they increase the risk of criminal behaviour. ... Criminologists stress this point by saying that risk factors for crime are increasing in their effect. ... These, too, are increasing in their effect. ... To suggest that child neglect increases the risk of delinquency, or that alcohol abuse increases the risk of domestic violence, is not saying that parents are to blame for delinquency or that alcohol abuse is to blame for domestic violence. ... Secondly, is that the communication between children and their adopted parents can increase the chance of l...

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The misuse of government funding by welfare recipients has been debated for many years. The belief that drug testing welfare recipients would reduce the amount of people on welfare and save tax dollars is a wise idea. If the goal of drug testing is to find drug users who utilize government funding t...

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Anorexia, should the victim choose, could be eliminated by, "the munchies," where the user's appetite substantially increases and more foods seem desirable. ... Science backs this theory because marijuana increases the brains alpha waves: alpha waves are generally associated with creativity. ... As well, some studies have noted an increase in some of the immune systems activities. ... In fact, using marijuana in the third trimester increases the birth weight of a child. ...

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The Prohibition era ended decades ago so why is its' lingering principles constricting cannabis' potential to assuage illnesses, induce happiness, conserve millions of dollars in criminal offenses, and bring in even more money in potential taxation? ... He does not want to see teenagers using cannabis as a gateway drug and be responsible for contributing to the increased drug abuse rate. ... In reality, cannabis induces extreme relaxation, sleepiness, and increased appetite which defy any possible actions of violence! ...

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Moreover, drug use has been increasing among the young people worldwide and most drug abusers are under the age of 30. ... They found that drug addicts commit rapacious crime such as larceny because they want to obtain money to buy drugs. ... For instance Venumadhava (2013) made reference to India, he pointed out that due to addiction there is an increase in incidences of HIV, hepatitis B and C and tuberculosis and this places a burden on India's health care system. ...

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