America has a jail population of (insert jail pop here). ... We ruin the lives of a significant portion of our population in a vain attempt at a "drug-free nation". ... As of April 22, 2001, the population of the United States was 284,049,859. The estimate for Americans aged 12 and over who have tried drugs is 87.7 million. ... Look for crime rate increases on the internet) though the prison population has risen. ...

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Since most of the population in prison at the time was minorities, he began to gain the public's interest about why people were attacking citizens. ... On the list of "Americas Most Addicting Drugs" marijuana does not even appear (Drug 1). ... As shown in the table 4, "in 1999 12.0% of Americans over the age of 12 have tried coke at least once compared to only 2.4% in the Netherlands" (Drug 3). ... "In the United States, 35% of Americans over the age of 12 have tried marijuana at least once compared to only 18% in the Netherlands" (Drug). ... Drugs use is just as bad now as when the drug ...

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In America, it's estimated that one hundred people die daily from prescription drug overdose. ... In the older population, many people suffer from medical conditions in which cause them to remember which can lead to accidental overdoses. ... The biggest area that we as Americans can impact when it comes to prescription drug abuse is through the use of education on every level. ... If we as Americans want to take our communities back we must take a stand and show others that this will not be tolerated by reporting their actions. ... We as Americans must step up through education, disposal...

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"Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in America today (Nation 5)." ... The drug use in America is not decreasing. ... By the senior year almost half of American seniors will have already used or tried marijuana once. ... "If drugs did not exist then our governors would have intended them, to make the population more vulnerable to arrest and imprisonment (Vanity Fair 4)." ... Teens helping teens is a solution that might help solve this drug problem in America. ...

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Drug abuse is an enormous epidemic across the nation. The use of alcohol and drugs can affect a person economically, psychologically, and physically. Between the elderly, adults, and teens nowadays, the usage is increasing day by day. People abuse drugs for many different reasons and ruins a lot of ...

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The estimate of cocaine users 12 and older in the us in 1998 was 1.8 million people down from its peak in 1985 of 3 percent of the total population in the united states. ... In America 10 percent of adults are alcoholics and regularly abuse alcohol while 10 million American adults regularly use marijuana. ... The American Civil Libertys Union claims that "...opposes indiscriminate urine testing because the process is both unfair and unnecessary. ... Even the population in general has come to see the point that drug use is bad and that its effects are not just temporary but eternal....

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The most heavily effected group of Americans, ages 16-24, have had an increase in joblessness of over 12 percent since 2000. ... This lack of support for our underprivileged Americans will ultimately result in an increase in the crime rate across the United States. ... In the article entitled "Young, Jobless, Hopeless," Bob Herbert talks about the rising percentage of young Americans who may have no job and no place to call home. ... The Health Department is in charge of creating support systems to help the growing homeless population in the area as well as help HIV victims, drug users, an...

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It's just too hard to monitor illegal substances when a significant portion of the population is committed to using drugs. ... Actual studies of human populations of marijuana users have shown no evidence of damage to the brain (Hager 1). ... Studies of actual human populations have failed to demonstrate that marijuana adversely affects the reproductive system. ... This war on drugs is wasting the money, as well as the lives of American people. ... The American Civil Liberties advocates the full decriminalization of the use, possession, manufacture, and distribution of drugs (ACLU 1). ...

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They also issued a survey in the same year, which revealed that 74 million or 34.8% of the American population aged 12 and older uses illegal drugs. ... He was arrested, tried, convicted, and received the maximum penalty of 14 years in prison - of which he only served 8( Nadelmann, "Thinking seriously about alternatives to the drug prohibition" 124) Economically, the production of drugs in the United States would benefit the financial well being of the American government and people. ...

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In fact, in 1900, there were more narcotic addicts, proportionate to the population than these today, (Musto, p.112). ... The use of narcotic drugs dropped sharply between 1920 $BCT (J, when there were almost half million addicts, and 1945, when the population of addicts was around 40,000 to 50,000. ... During this same era, however, the percentage of the American population who had ever used marijuana also doubled for most age categories. ...

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Since then, marijuana has achieved widespread use by Americans and has become the source of an apparent controversy in our society. ... "The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse" reports that 31.6% of Americans have used marijuana. ... This means that in the year of 1997, about 3.4% of the total population use marijuana on a daily basis. Even larger portions of the population use marijuana less often but nevertheless are regular users. ... A smaller percentage of their population smokes marijuana than in the US (Reuters). ...

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America's "War on Drugs" which make the recreational use of marijuana illegal is not working. ... Is this what America wants as an outcome of the War on Drugs? ... American drug laws are not currently working marijuana is still a widely used drug. ... According to the American Civil Liberties Union. ... Although marijuana is illegal many Americans still use it. ...

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Social disorganization is neighborhoods or areas marked by culture conflict, lack of cohesiveness, a transient population, and insufficient social organizations. ... The association between drug abuse and family quality may involve both racial and gender differences: females and whites who were abused as children are more likely to have alcohol and drug arrests as adults; abuse was less likely to affect drug use in males and African-Americans. ... Illegal drug use among adolescents in small town and rural America is reaching alarming proportions. In a study conducted by the National Center on ...

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The issue of limited prison space gains significance greatly when you consider an estimated sixty-percent of prison population is serving time on drug conviction. ... Drug Prohibition is most closely classified as a positive liberty because it forces the government to provide services to create and enforce a drug free America. ... These are significant numbers considering that sixty percent of the prison population has been jailed due to drug violations. ...

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One of the reasons that drugs are illegal is because drug use goes against tradition and American values. ... Americans dislike the thought of the legalization of drugs because it would go against our principles and traditions. ... It is feared that if there was a free trade of narcotics there would be "vast masses of our population spending their days and night smoking opium or mainlining heroin, rather than working and taking care of their responsibilities." ...

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Since drugs are considered the demon here in America, citizens use as a method of rebelling as well as out of curiosity of 4 what the big deal is. ... Legalizing drugs is a viable alternative to the current policy on drugs in America. ... Our legal system would be freed up and our prison population dramatically reduced saving billions and leaving law enforcement to catch and prosecute violent criminals. ...

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According to a 2010 national survey on drug use and health, "In 2010 there was an estimated 22.6 million Americans over the age of 12 that were current or former illicit drug users within the last month of when the survey was given; this equates to about 8.9 percent of the population aged 12 or older." ...

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A study of the U.S. population found that one person out of every four have had a substance abuse problem at some time in their life The technical definition for addiction is the compulsion to use substances repeatedly, even when doing so can be dangerous. ... They found that, between 1988 and 1995, "Americans spent $57.3 billion on drugs, broken down as follows: $38 billion on cocaine, $9.6 billion on heroin, $7 billion on marijuana, and $2.7 billion on other illegal drugs and on the misuse of legal drugs" According to statistics addiction is truly an equal opportunity offender. ... "Fifty-s...

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