Violence in drug markets is one of the negative effects of drug prohibition (Miron 2001). Disputes arise between various parties within all markets. ... Violence was also widespread in gambling markets but has decreased sharply as a result of expanded legal gambling (Miron 2001). ... Harm reduction efforts targeted at drug users are often thwarted by legislation such as 2003 Reducing American's Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act. ... These include violence in drug markets fuelled by the prohibition of the drug trade, avoidable negative health outcomes for users and the mass incarceration of dr...

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As a component of president Nixon's war on drugs - the IRS spent 12 million dollars targeting 1,011 suspected dealers. ... Of these 43 cases only 13 resulted in conviction - roughly 1.5% of the initial target (Brenner, "The Legalization of Drugs: Why Prolong the Inevitable?" ... It forces drug users into contact with real criminals and the underground market. ... Drug prohibition entices young individuals into the crime arena by creating an extremely lucrative black market. ... Decriminalization would result in the destruction of the black market for drugs. ...

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The fact is once marijuana is legalized the market for growers and sellers would be lost to the more organized states that could grow it in large quantities and turn into a cash crop. Eventually companies will be licensed to sell marijuana cigarettes or more commonly know as "joints" and the immense revenue made from taxation of marijuana and the saved budget once spent on the prohibition of Marijuana could be spent on anti drug programs targeting much more dangerous drugs like cocaine and morphine. ...

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The drug market diminishes the standard morals and ethics of a society with the beneficiaries being crime syndicates and drug dealers. ... The first American drug policy targeted pharmacists and physicians. ... The American drug policy will continue to target the supply while offering little funding for rehabilitation, apparently there is such a thing as a drug-free society....

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Zero tolerance meant: (1) that if there were no drug abusers there would be no drug problem, (2) that the market for drugs is created not only by availability, but by demand, (3) that drug abuse starts as a willful act, (4) that the perception that drug users are powerless to act against the drug availability and peer pressure is an erroneous one, (5) that most illegal drug users can choose to their behaviors and must be held responsible if they do not, (6) that individual freedom does not include the right to self and societal destruction, (7) that public tolerance for drug abuse must be redu...

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Heroin was created in 1874 and was originally marketed as a safe, non-addictive substitute for morphine. ... Simultaneously, pharmaceutical manufacturers marketed heroin in patent medicines as a cure for many diseases, including infantile respiratory ailments. ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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The illicit drug market, pre-drug war, is estimated to be a hundred billion dollar a year business. ... (DEA/CDC) The misallocation of resources is totally exhausting and paralyzing the entire legal system that could be better targeted on a more productive agenda. ...

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Statistically, for every 104 Americans who have tried marijuana, there is only one regular user of cocaine, and less than one user of heroin.3 For those minority of marijuana smokers who do graduate to harder substances, it is marijuana prohibition -- which forces users to associate with the illicit drug black market -- rather than the use of marijuana itself, that often serves as a doorway to the world of hard drugs. ... In Holland, where politicians decided over 25 years ago to separate marijuana from the illicit drug market by permitting coffee shops all over the country to sell small amo...

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