The link between drug use and crime is not a new one and numerous studies show that drugs use directly relates to crime in multiple ways. ... A report by the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) asserts, "[e]ntanglement of law enforcement with treatment can come at a high price: the sacrifice of confidentiality between patient and caregiver; the diversion of funding from voluntary and community-based treatment into coerced treatment programs, often behind bars; and the de facto criminalization of relapse, which is recognized as a standard occurrence for most individuals struggling with substance abuse-...

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They base this argument on past experiment dealing with alcohol prohibition. ... It is true that legalization will not eliminate the major cause of violent crime. Most argumentation which states that marijuana legalization will not decrease crime deals with the idea that most violent crime occurs as a result of alcohol use.(Light) Since this is true, legalization would not affect crime that is alcohol related but it will decrease violent crime that is linked to drug dealing. The drug itself may not cause violent crime but people involved in the distributing of marijuana do. ...

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Nixon was looking for a way to decrease crime in the Washington D.C. area. ... Carter's drug policies were based on a doctrine developed in Europe that stated that the government would never stop drug use, so they should work on preventing the harm of usage. ... A small percentage of all drug crimes do get caught, so fear of the law is small. ... Racial profiling is based on the premise that minorities commit most drug offenses. ... This results in the persecution of innocent people based on skin color. ...

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In a nine-year span from 2001 to 2010, 8.2 million Americans were arrested and incarcerated for marijuana possesion with 90% of those arrests being based on possession(Wegman). ... Dispensaries and small businesses based on the distribution of the drug would open up, along with already established stores beginning to carry it. Based on a 2015 survey, it is known that 11% of Americans currently use marijuana(Gallup). ... This extra funding could be used to create more efficient law enforcement upon violent crime. ... Organized crime would come crashing down along with the amount of people harme...

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Legalization of drugs will stop an enormous number of deaths and crimes. ... On their web page the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) states, "the costs of crime attributed to illicit drug abuse were estimated at 59.1 billion. These costs include reduced earnings due to incarceration, crime careers, and criminal victimization; and the costs of criminal justice and drug interdiction". ... Based on this information it is not hard to realize that prohibition costs money, and lives. ... This would have an impact on the amount of money flowing through criminal channels, and this might weaken o...

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All transactions are cash based, and thus the funds must somehow be integrated into the formal economy, or through money laundering in order to conceal all transactions. ... The illicit business can be seen as a class-based issue, where the core countries benefit from illegal criminal acts, yet the periphery are at a risk of failure. ... Organized crimes choose their routes in regards to effectiveness. ... According to James Mittleman in Global Organized Crime, where poverty is severe, criminal gangs flourish. ... He further argues; transnational organized crime groups are both a political com...

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Large amounts of crime result from drug use. ... What resulted was a large outbreak of organized crime. This new organized crime created a series of problems. ... Crime is arguably the most dangerous association with drugs. ... A program that is in trial in other countries is government based drug distribution. ...

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Police issue seizures and searches based on racial profiling, the environment of their surroundings, and whether or not a person is in the wrong part of town. ... This obsession for a drug free society does nothing but create corruption, crime, and disease, and America, whose principals are based on freedom and whose freedom depends on our civil liberties being ensured, has failed its public because of this war which is taking too much time, money, and not enough results. ... Drugs play a significant role, obviously, but the crime comes about because of the money involved. ... The alcohol ...

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Legalization would result in purity assurance, labeled concentration of the product, obliteration of pushers, obliteration of drug crime, savings in expensive enforcement, and significant tax revenues. ... Gazzaniga, professor of neuroscience at Dartmouth Medical School, puts it, There is a base rate of drug abuse, and it is [presently] achieved one way or another (121). ... As in Zurich, the Netherlands has become populated with drug lords and addicts, making it the most crime-prone nation in Europe. Furthermore, Dutch efforts to license legal heroin use quickly ran aground amid huge increase...

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Legalization would result in purity assurance, labeled concentration of the product, obliteration of pushers, obliteration of drug crime, savings in expensive enforcement, and significant tax revenues. ... Gazzaniga, professor of neuroscience at Dartmouth Medical School, puts it, There is a base rate of drug abuse, and it is [presently] achieved one way or another (121). ... As in Zurich, the Netherlands has become populated with drug lords and addicts, making it the most crime-prone nation in Europe. Furthermore, Dutch efforts to license legal heroin use quickly ran aground amid huge increase...

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Marijuana prohibition has led to larger percentage of organized crime and gang violence. ... If marijuana was legalized crime rate will decrease. Current marijuana laws now do the opposite of lowering crime rates. ... It is a case of history repeating from the alcohol prohibition days when organized crime got its funds from the selling of alcohol. ... Based on the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Population Estimates 1994, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services For every 100 people who have tried marijuana 1 currently uses cocaine once a week or more (Morgan 36). ...

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According to the authors the the methodology was based "a qualitative study of mephedrone in Ireland. The sample was based upon 22 in- depth interviews, approximately 45 minutes each, examing the micro and macro- levels of e use and influence of the drug. ... Nonetheless, hence the research is based on interviews these did not affect the behavior of the interviewers. Synopsis One research is based on facts from researches of NEP the center were made the interviews. While the other article is exclusively based on interviews and previous articles. ...

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This inherently leaving various law enforcement agencies with less ability to confront other crimes. ... The statistics show a rise in crimes concerning personal property; drug abusers in hopes of supporting their drug habit committed seventy-five percent of all property crimes such as burglary and robbery. Studies have shown that out patient drug programs or programs that offered drugs for a lower cost drastically reduced the amount of crimes committed. ... This would lead one to acknowledge that maybe our opinion drugs may be based in fear and social The Goal The optimal goal of any policys...

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Since everybody has their own personal reasons why they do such a thing as use and abuse drugs, it makes even more difficult to prevent such a crime. ... The Control Act distinguishes among several categories of drugs based on their potential abuse and their medical utility. ... We tend to think that drug users are the victims of the drugs that they take, but it is a victimless crime, because nether the seller nor the user is likely to report the crime to the police. Drug use is a real crime that injures both users and the society, but its punishment should not involve infamy for it is itself ...

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"Some would argue that legalizing drugs would lead to substantial reductions in drug costs and a corresponding reduction in drug-related crime" (Inciardi/McElrath, 287). If drugs were legalized, all drug-related crimes would end. "The police prosecutors, and courts would focus their resources on combating the types of crimes that people cannot walk away from" (Inciardi/McElrath, 295). The police could focus on more important crimes. ... "Government corruption and intimidation by traffickers as well as drug-based foreign policies would be effectively reduced, if not eliminated entirely" (Inc...

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Tolerance of drug use resulted in terrible increases in crime between the 1960's and the early 1990's and the landscape of America has been altered forever. ... By the time that the DEA was created by Executive Order in July 1973 to establish a single unified command, America was beginning to see signs of the drug and crime epidemic that lay ahead. ... In addition to distributing cocaine and methamphetamine in the West and Midwest, these Mexico based groups are now attempting to expand the distribution of those drugs into eastern U.S. markets. ... Finally, criminal groups base...

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Accepting these premises led Congress to conclude that a federal ban on the production and sale of alcohol would go a long way toward reducing crime and addressing a variety of other social problems. ... The rise of black markets empowered organized crime to an unprecedented degree. In some of America's largest cities, local governments had been heavily corrupted by the influence of organized crime. ... Calculations based on recent BJS reports suggest that, at any one time, 59,300 prisoners charged with or convicted of violating marijuana laws (3.3% of the total incarcerated population) a...

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Drug trafficking and crime in downtown Vancouver hadn't increased, nor had relapses by drug addicts, while lives had been saved.... People believe that making safe injection sites would probably work based on the fact that needle exchange programs, that were implemented by non profit organizations had a positive impact. ... Supervised injection sites, saves lives, helps the community but it also reduces crimes rates. ... They usually get there money in illegal ways, so this lowers the amount crime associated around drug use. The distribution of these drugs are considered organized crime ...

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Today is the day you have been waiting for. You have promised your daughter that as soon as it stops raining you will take her to the park, push her on the swings and spin her as fast as you can on the merry-go-round. You know five year olds don't forget, so as soon as the sun broke through the blin...

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In 1933, the prohibition on alcohol was lifted due to an overwhelming public concern with widespread organized crime, police corruption and violence (Encarta, "Prohibition"). ... Also in relation to alcohol prohibition, those profiting most from America's "War on Drugs" are the organized crime barons, who make an estimated $10 to $50 billion dollars a year from drug trade alone (More Reefer Madness, 15-25). ... It is a criminal act of the U.S. government by it's own manifesto, the Constitution, to make a personal behavior a crime. ... The National Academy of Sciences issued its fi...

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Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior through its purported effects of lowering inhibitions, weakening impulse control and heightening aggressive tendencies, marihuana was usually found to inhibit the expression of aggressive impulses by pacifying the user, interfering with muscular coordination, reducing psychomotor activities and generally producing states of drowsiness lethargy, timidity and passivity." ...

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Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior through its purported effects of lowering inhibitions, weakening impulse control and heightening aggressive tendencies, marihuana was usually found to inhibit the expression of aggressive impulses by pacifying the user, interfering with muscular coordination, reducing psychomotor activities and generally producing states of drowsiness lethargy, timidity and passivity." ...

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Cocaine was also insignificant until Hamilton Wright brought about charges that it was "the direct incentive to the crime of rape by Negroes." ... Many times people will see marijuana as an addictive drug that causes people to commit crimes of violence as well as other legal offenses. But in 1938, the New York Academy of Medicine reported marijuana as a relatively harmless drug with no physically addicting effects and that it did not help in having any effect on the crimes of violence committed by people. ...

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 Imagine a drug that is less addictive than nicotine, safer to use than alcohol, and can even help in relieving the pain in cancer, glaucoma, and AIDS patients. Now, imagine that same drug being banned from the United States. Yes, this drug is marijuana, Mary Jane, reefer, pot, green, and the 420 cure. Since the 1930's the government has made this drug illegal for US> citizens despite many attempts to legalize the drug. Many claim the drug is less dangerous and addictive than other legal drugs such as nicotine and alcohol. ...

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Surely it is not right to think that we are wrong for punishing people who break down the social structure for their own selfishness (and while I understand that some people are more vulnerable than others, there is never an excuse for crime; especially not for the majority)"(p.8). ... Sadly these kids will have lives filled with crime at such a young age. ... By early 1980, after only six months of dealing, Ross and his partner had an exclusive client base and a steady supplier" (bio. ...

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