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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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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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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DRUG ABUSE: COCAINE AND HEROIN Drug abuse in our country is a major problem. Not only does it affect the person taking the drugs, but also family and friends. When you are taking drugs, the way you see the whole world changes. You don't care about anything or anyone. All you care about i...

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Another approach is based on intense group meetings of addicts by their peers-reformed addicts. ... The newest available treatment is based on the use of narcotic antagonists such as naloxone, cyclazocine, and naltrexone (Woods, 2014).These drugs do not have an aversive effect but deprive the heroin addict of the euphoria high usually produced by opiates. ... Most of the time, the abuser cannot get any assistance to start these programs until they are jobless, homeless, eligible for public assistance, or have been arrested for a drug related crime. ...

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