Unfortunately, drugs are still being circulated, and drug addicts run rampant. The drug market diminishes the standard morals and ethics of a society with the beneficiaries being crime syndicates and drug dealers. ... The Narcotics Control Act of 1956 eliminated all discretion to suspend sentences or grant probation. ... Anslinger was so determined on criminalizing drugs, he requested judges to increase the minimum sentence on the drug policy. ... The drug propaganda of the 1940s and 1950s was often so complex nobody believed the government's cautions on drugs. ...

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President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon held firm to their stance against legalizing drugs even after confronted by other world leaders with a report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy recommending that governments find innovative ways of legalizing and regulating drugs, specifically marijuana, in an attempt to deny profits to drug cartels. ... "Making drugs more available - as this report suggests - will make it harder to keep our communities healthy and safe," said Rafael Lemaitre, spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (Ellingwood). ...

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Based on historical precedent it should not be out of the question to consider moving to controlled legalization in Canada. ... The purchase and possession of cannabis should be legal in Canada given the documented health benefits, reduction in crime due to the control of cannabis sales, an increase in government revenue, and an overall safer drug under government regulations. ... There has been reported cases were drug leaders will cut their marijuana with chemical substances found in methamphetamines and crack cocaine that can make the drug addictive. ... The removal, or at minimum reductio...

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Why do we use drugs? ... Although tobacco is legal, it is still a drug. ... A majority of addicts believe they can control their cocaine use even after terrible experiences. ... Alcohol is another legal drug. ... Alcohol can depress or even shut down center of the brain used to control breathing and heart rate. ...

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A big problem in today's world is the habitual drug use by teens and young adults. ... Drugs is a broad term, but it includes and is not limited to the use of alcohol, marijuana, pain-killers, and over-the-counter drugs such as Tylenol. ... Administration of Drugs Depending on the form of administration of the drug depends on how fast the drug will affect the brain. In order for the drug to effect someone, the drug has to reach the bloodstream which is then carried throughout the entire body. ... The prefrontal cortex is responsible for inhibitory control, which is the ability to stop on...

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The legal acceptance of alcohol, however, does not exclude it from the category of a "drug," even in the eyes of the Food and Drug Administration. ... Drug smugglers tend to carry and sell hard drugs in extremely potent form (i.e. cocaine) for the same reason. The federal government also controls the amount of nicotine and other additives in cigarette and cigar manufacturing, in an effort to lessen their risk to public health. ... Moreover, marijuana has been proven to be less toxic and less expensive than conventional medication and in many cases more effective than commercially available ...

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Marijuana is a rather harmless drug compared to the legal drugs that aren't controlled by the law. ... With the drug being inspected the quality could then be controlled and there would be less worry about someone "lacing" your stuff. ... According to Lonnelle Aikman, "Preliminary findings show the drug may prove effective against glaucoma and asthma, and can control such side effects like nausea in cancer treatment". ... We have yet to get the underage smoking of cigarettes under control so how can we say that we would regulate marijuana cigarettes like that. The war on drugs would ne...

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The "high" lasts two to three hours, but additional effects on motor control last much longer. ... The government could also make the drug safer. ... These people will be looked at like outcasts, which will control people's smoking habits. ... All drugs do. The side effects of marijuana are mild when used in controllable limited doses. ...

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The Native Americans introduced the Pilgrims to tobacco and other forms of drugs such as marijuana. By the 1900's, the country noticed marijuana, a psychoactive drug, was dangerous and needed to be controlled. ... From then on the government started to crack down and began to embrace drug enforcement. ... It is the laws restricting drugs that are newcomers, less than a century old"(31). ... However, federal government warned those physicians that by prescribing marijuana, they might loose federal privileges to write prescriptions for controlled substances, and they might be banned from i...

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Additional studies and research applications have been approved through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has yet to determine if they will provide the marijuana needed for additional studies. ... The FDA must approve a drug before it can be dispensed through a prescription. ... In May, we had an emergency IEP because he was WAY out of control and a danger to students and teachers again . . . ... Clifford (1983) Oral THC 5 and 10 mg. single doses Double-blind, placebo-controlled 9 MS patients Spasticity was improved based on examin...

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The most common drug used today is marijuana. Hemp was originally made illegal not because it was some harmful drug. ... It is often reported that marijuana is a gateway drug. ... If marijuana really were a gateway drug, hard drug use would have gone up, not down. ... It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement." ...

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Messer was arrested for using an illegal drug for its therapeutic value. ... Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, under the Federal Controlled Substance act(Mathre 4). Other Schedule I drugs include the two most lethal drugs, heroin and cocaine. ... Nate Miley, an Oakland official argues, "It was our understanding that, under the Federal Controlled Substance Act, agents of the city could distribute marijuana or other illegal substances for public safety reasons"(Aizenman 18). ... The government cannot control what substances have therapeutic value, and therefore should not be able to prohibit the ...

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A study conducted by the Office of National Drug Control Policy indicates "perception of risk is declining to 30.7% ". ... Survey taken by the Office of National Drug Control indicate 8.2%, users aging from twelve to seventeen, report smoking at least once a month(Marijuana Legalization). ... Marijuana is currently listed under the DEA's drug scheduling list as a schedule 1 drug.(drug schedules) "Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse." ... People believe marijuana would be used as a "stepping-...

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It has been found to be a myth that marijuana is a gateway drug, or a stepping-stone to harder more dangerous drugs. The war   on drugs is really a war on marijuana.   ... The US government, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and The Bureau of Mortality Statistics has annual American deaths caused by drugs: Tobacco-400,000 Asprin-500 Alcohol-100,000 Marijuana-0   All Legal Drugs-20,000 Caffeine-2000   All Illegal Drugs-15,000   Like any substance, pot can be abused. ... Prohibition has failed to control the use and domestic production of marijuana. ... Marijuana is not a lethal drug, an...

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The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control or even solve it. Ending the war on drugs is seemingly impossible as Richard L. ... In the book, The Case for Legalizing Drugs, it states, "Legalizing drugs would promote public health, not harm it. Street drugs are adulterated and misbranded. ... If we can distribute condoms and clean needles to control the spread of diseases, why can we not bring ourselves to distribute marijuana cheaply and legally? ...

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Current drug legislation has failed to reduce demand. ... In 1970, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act reduced the classification of simple possession and non-profit distribution from felonies to misdemeanors (Himmelstein 104). ... In fact, the legal process would include a law passed by Congress allowing the government to control the content, quality, and distribution of marijuana. ... Heath's work was criticized for its insufficient sample size (only four monkeys), its failure to control experimental bias, and the misidentification of normal monkey brain structure as...

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The federal government, seeing the increase of marijuana use, passed new drug laws. ... President Jimmy Carter said, "Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than use of the drug itself. ... They state that in many cases, drug users have quit because of trouble with the law. ... They also say that by making drugs legal, the people who have never tried drugs for fear of being caught by the law will have no reason to be afraid anymore and will become users (Legalization of Marijuana). ... She also believes that like alcohol beverage control, the government wou...

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Pharmacopoeia because it was believed to be a harmful and addictive drug that caused psychoses, mental deterioration, and violent behavior. ... "The current legal status of marijuana was established in 1970 with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act, which divided drugs into five schedules and placed marijuana in Schedule I, the category for drugs with high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use."... This money could be used, to give an example, to fund drug prevention programs in our schools or community centers. ... The National Drug Control Budget has swelled from $1.65 b...

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In the year 1937, the United States government made the drug marijuana illegal. ... This was a time where many mind altering drugs where experimented with and widely used. ... The dosage and duration of action of marijuana are easier to control, and other cannabinoids in the marijuana plant may modify the action of THC. ... First the government should set an age limit on the purchasing of the drug. ... It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things th...

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Legalize It "Making Drugs illegal has not diminished the American appetite for these substances" (Drug Trial 65). ... American drug laws are not currently working marijuana is still a widely used drug. ... Even with drug tests and harsh punishments marijuana is still in the high amounts and the drug of choice. ... Removing the prohibition the government could allow controlled distribution at low prices would make lower the price of drugs. ... Since marijuana is not a gateway drug people would not go to gangs and traffickers for other drugs. ...

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Secondly, marijuana is a gateway drug. Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States and tends to be the first illegal drug teens use. ... It was out of control and needed to be stopped... While most marijuana users do not go on to use more dangerous drugs, most heavy drug users started with marijuana. ... It's the more popular drug, more widely used...

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Proposition 215 was backed by organizations such as NORML, the Drug Policy Foundation (DPF), and Californians for Medical Rights (CMR). ... Like alcohol, it's a mind-altering drug. ... There are so many new drugs for glaucoma coming out all the time" (Lacayo). ... In the synthesized form of marijuana, better know as Marinol, the active ingredient (THC) is isolated and controlled. ... Alcohol is heavily controlled today and yet it still causes severe problems. ...

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This is the claim that marijuana use leads to heavier drug use. When compiling these statistics, statisticians measured how many hard drug users did pot, not how many pot users do hard drugs. People who do hard drugs would do hard drugs whether pot existed or not. In fact, if pot didn't exist, people who desired to try a drug would try a harder drug such as coke. ... Drug use leading to crime is true. ...

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One of the more popular drug, Marijuana is used by many of youth today. The use of this drug is known for being a deviant act. ... He taught his best friend how to use the drug. ... They each learned how to smoke pot by watching someone else use the drug.? ... Crosnoe, Dornbusch, Erickson (2000)A Social Process Model of Adolescent Deviance: Combinging Social Control and Differential Association Perspectives.? ...

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One of the main arguments stopping the decriminalization of marijuana is that it is believed to be a gateway drug. ... Using marijuana may put people, adolescents included, in contact with people who are users and sellers of other drugs. 1) The prohibition of marijuana is the very reason that there is more of a chance for a marijuana user to be exposed to, and urged to try more drugs. 2) So basically what prohibition did was created a mixed drug market, putting consumers in contact with hard drug dealers. 3) Drug use is lesser in Holland where marijuana has been decriminalized; regulatin...

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