For people who live in public housing, the arrest of any family member for a drug offense can cause eviction of the entire family. ... An average of 3,677 marijuana offenders has been put in federal prison each year since 1990. This compares to an average of about 1,900 per year in the 80's and about 1,200 per year in the 1970's. ... It makes an above average student average, and an average student below average. ... Smoking pot is very harmful to your health, family, and friends. ...

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In our lives we face many things, like stress, stress from work stress from our families or from health or money. ... For all the correction, judicial and legal and police costs it came up to and average of 78,154$ per imamate so you do the math. ... Most addicts cannot afford from their minimum wage jobs to afford the high price of drugs so they must steal and rob houses or whatever they can get, even robbing family members. ...

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The dealer could be your average kid next door who is out to make a quick buck. ... These are your average everyday kids. ... Mood swings can lead to isolation from friends and family that do not use. Users may feel they have nothing in common with friends or family that does not experiment with ecstasy or other drugs. ...

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Many people don't know the gravity of the issue, or that there are approximately 30 million slaves in the world today; each slave on average is sold at $90 globally and $1,895 within the United States (Tan). ... State Department, of the 800,000 people who are trafficked across international borders every year, 94% are women and 60% are children (Neubauer), and an average of 23,250 of these people are trafficked into the United States. ... Many sex traffickers not only threaten these young, underage girls with death and violence, but also their families. ... It is also hard because most vi...

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DRUGS Did you know that our society spends and average of $245.7 billion dollars on drugs and alcohol every year? ... Drug dealers are usually the ones that need money and can't think of any other way of getting it, come from a broken family and think that no one cares what they do, or tries to take the easy way out. ... Try to think of spending the rest of your life in jail while all of your friends and family are celebrating birthdays and creating memorable experiences that you could have had. Finally, think of your friends and families life without you in it, picture the look on thei...

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The reason for the root of being part of a gang is to have a sense of "family.... Gangs are usually appealing to those who are lost and need some sort of "family" they never had (GangFree.org, 2008). ... From a person's past experiences, family life, and environment, being part of a gang may be seen as a way to improve and upgrade their lifestyle. ... Youths always looks for a group to hang out with and a sense of an extension of "family" (LAPD). ... Statistics say that a quarter of gang members are between 15 and 17 years old and the average gang member age is...

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Drug users have an average of 4 times higher medical costs and 4 times more likely to be in a workplace accident and 5 times more likely to file for workers compensation. ... In regard to Laws on drug testing the catholic catechism states that: "2211 The political community has a duty to honor the family, to assist it, and to ensure especially:...in keeping with the country's institutions, the right to medical care, assistance for the aged, and family benefits.... ...

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The average gang is composed of males, ages 12 to 21. ... If you try to leave then the people you called your family and friends will either beat you until your almost dead, or they will just kill you. ... The gang also provides some money for these children who quite often need to feed their families. ...

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But Rosa Lee hated the idea of cleaning up the houses of white families. ... It seems like the whole family just lived from one paycheck to another. ... There were times when two or more family members were detained in the same prison. The family learned to cope with prison and drug-underworld life but not how to handle the regular, bill-paying world... They lead a "normal- life and both have jobs that let them earn enogh money to have a house and feed a family. ...

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One commercial states that by buying drugs, a person helped to massacre an entire family in Columbia. ... A Coca farmer in Columbia averages about $1,000 per month but the government is paying off the Coca farmers by giving them $2,000 in subsidies and technical assistance to grow crops like rice, corn, and fruit which will but a substantial dent in their monthly income. ...

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Maller also states, "NFL players are actually incarcerated less than the average citizen.... If they were a non-celebrity, they could lose more than money, but their job, their house, their family and even receive jail time. ...

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Many traditional researches were conducted in trying to explain the phenomenon suggesting different causes for its existence, which included poverty, poor family background, lack of protection, and bad associations, etc. ... Push factors include poverty, poor academic performance – school dropouts, unemployment, dysfunctional family background that led to lack of care and abuse, crime-prone and unsafe community, criminal members in family and even boredom. ... Local researchers in Hong Kong also found that deviant youths were exposed to more adverse family condition and easily suscepti...

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Is Legalization A Realistic Alternative To The War On Drugs? For years, the issue of legalization has been an increasingly controversial subject. Millions of dollars are spent annually in the War on Drugs causing many to wonder if this fight is cost-effective or if an alternative such as legalization would be more realistic than current efforts in drug prevention. 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...

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Is Legalization A Realistic Alternative To The War On Drugs? For years, the issue of legalization has been an increasingly controversial subject. Millions of dollars are spent annually in the War on Drugs causing many to wonder if this fight is cost-effective or if an alternative such as legalization would be more realistic than current efforts in drug prevention. 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...

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These variations of ways Puerto Rican immigrants earned a salary was not too different from each other, since all of these ways of earning an income for a living was not enough to live a normal life and support their family. ... According to Bourgois (2002:92), "Ray's workers, for example, averaged slightly less than double the legal minimum wage - between seven and eight dollars an hour." ... Schooling for children from poor Puerto Rican families wa...

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Since the passage of the Harrison Act in 1914, the federal approach to drug abuse control has included a variety of ways for reducing both the supply of, and demand for, illicit drugs. At first the supply and demand reduction strategies were grounded in the traditional deterrence model: Though leg...

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If caught with marijuana, the average first time offender is looking at mandatory jail time, and for what, a harmful only to the person smoking it plant that grows natural in the wild or can be cultivated. It does not make sense to put someone who has vices, just like the rest of us, in jail and potentially away from his family for possesion of an insignificant plant. ...

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Definition The use of illicit or illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in quantities other than directed. History of Drug Abuse Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But not until the 19th cent. A.D. were the active substances in drugs extracted. ...

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With the decision in Colorado to legalize marijuana not only for medical use, but for recreational use as well and Washington State considering the same, the question arises: Is marijuana legalization right for America? My own view is that in the case of a medical necessity, possibly, if there are n...

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A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. Others feel- that this heightened media coverage is a direct result of the consequences of drugs and drug abuse. For whatever reasons that the media was there, the participants in this pro and con ...

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Difficulties in stopping usage is the second characteristic which may lead to one or more of the following results: dropping out of school, trouble with the law, jail, losing a job, and family problems. ...

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In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. With that, the need for prosecutors and judges also rose. ...

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In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. With that, the need for prosecutors and judges also rose. ...

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