The Drug Enforcement Administration The topic that I was assigned to write about was Federal Agency. Of the many agencies available to write about I chose the Drug Enforcement Administration, (DEA) which enforces controlled substance laws. ... The Drug Enforcement Administration is a United States Department of Justice Law Enforcement agency tasked with suppressing the sale of recreational drugs of abuse and enforcing the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The History of the Drug Enforcement Administration The long, proud, and honorable tradition of the federal drug enforcement agency be...

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Law enforcement has little effect, and it alone cannot defeat the giant problems that come with drug use in America. ... Also, drug legalization would reduce the amount of money needed to spend on law enforcement. The U.S. government spent $1.5 billion on drug enforcement last year ("Drug Enforcement Statistics"). ... In addition to lowering enforcement costs, legalizing drugs would reduce the number of inmates kept in prisons for drug-related crimes. ... More than half of the crime in America is drug related ("Drug Enforcement Statistics"). ...

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The federal government, since the beginning the war of drug, spends approximately ten billion dollars a year on drug enforcement agencies and programs, and another estimated one hundred and ninety billion dollars a year on investigating drug related crimes, prosecution of alleged drug activities, and enforcing punishments and/or imprisonment. ... The law enforcement used in this "war of drugs" has their time nearly monopolized by the approximate thirty to forty million people yearly who purchase and use drugs. This inherently leaving various law enforcement agencies with less ability to confro...

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Others take on a more optimistic view saying that drug use and distribution can be minimized almost to the point of extinction through greater regulation and enforcement of anti-drug. ... Being that the drug trade was legal before the introduction of drug prohibition, the history of drug trade can be closely tied to that of drug prohibition. ... As anti-drug laws made their transition from religious to governmental enforcement, the degree to which drug marketing was cracked down as police and government officials became involved. ... Drug Enforcement Administration described Carrillo as the mo...

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That is why when I started thinking about Law Enforcement I knew I may have found my calling. ... Many consider law enforcement officers to be the second most underpaid career, just under teaching. ... He must enforce laws and ordinances activities. ... Law Enforcement agencies have started to require all personnel to wear body armor to prevent gun shot wounds to the officer. ... Any previous alcohol or drug abuse will disqualify a person before his application is even looked at. ...

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Unfortunately, drugs are still being circulated, and drug addicts run rampant. ... Perhaps the spending should shift from law enforcement and penalization to prevention, education, and treatment. ... To ensure maximum compliance, the act was aggressively enforced. ... After the creation of the Drug Enforcement Agency, "Operation Intercept" was initiated; which obligated Mexico to monitor its marijuana farmers. ... Clinton also increased the spending for prevention and rehabilitation programs; however a majority of policy spending was used for eradication and law enforcement. ...

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For the past thirty years the government has escalated the war on drugs by banning every kind of addictive drug and pumping billions of dollars into aggressive enforcement without significant success. ... The war on drugs is highly corrupting on society 2 because enormous wealth is created in the hands of the worst criminal elements giving them the means to bribe the pillars of our society like law enforcement, judges, and politicians. ... Law-enforcement receives a large budget for chasing down drug dealers. ... "Continuing the 3 war on drugs on the grounds that it destroys neighborhood...

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(Drug Enforcement Agency) to put an end to the drug war. ... The dealers are larger now than ever before and law enforcement is no closer to ending it than when they first started. ... The drug dealers would see a huge downfall of money if their most popular drug became legal. ... There will always be some sort of drug war going on, but it will be substantially easier for the different law enforcement agencies to control. ... The drug enforcement agency relies heavily on tips from other people. ...

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Drug Abuse A BREIF DESCRIPTION Definition The use of illegal drugs or the abuse of medicine or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a way or in quantities other than intended for. ... Different drugs can do different things and have different affects on people. ... Intravenous Drug Abuse Many drugs can be injected. ... Drugs and how it affects society Drugs affect society in a big way. ... It also cost a lot of money to run rehab centers and make sure there is enough law enforcement to control the amount of drug activity that is going...

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Drug abuse is defined as "an excessive or improper use of drugs, especially through self-administration for non-medical purposes"(Drug(s), 2008). ... These six steps include "education, tracking and monitoring, proper medication disposal, enforcement, and the prescription goal plan " (Prescription Drug Abuse, 2011). ... While enforcement cannot be done be everyone because citizens are not law enforcement personnel, they can report it to authorities to ensure that it is enforced. ... Many law enforcement agencies have tip lines or voicemails set up where callers can call in anonymously to repor...

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• There are many good books that you can get • Your local law enforcement agencies have community relation, resource, and drug prevention officers that can refer you to local agencies that can help. ... But there reason there child is using drugs is not important. ... Your local law enforcement have community relation, resource, and drug prevention officers that can refer you to other local agencies they know about that can and will help. ... Web of addictions, Minnesota institute of public health, national drug prevention league, drug enforcement agency, life or meth, partnershi...

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Marijuana: The Illegal Herb The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) currently lists marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug. A Schedule 1 drug, to law enforcement, is any illegal substance, which is used only for recreation. ... If this drug is more readily available than it is already, the theory is that usage of the drug will increase. ... This, in turn, becomes a problem for law enforcement and the courts, as crime associated with the drug trade blossoms. ... The negative socioeconomic effects of a drug and its use in a population do not simply disappear if the drug is legalized. ...

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Marijuana: The Illegal Herb The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) currently lists marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug. A Schedule 1 drug, to law enforcement, is any illegal substance, which is used only for recreation. ... If this drug is more readily available than it is already, the theory is that usage of the drug will increase. ... This, in turn, becomes a problem for law enforcement and the courts, as crime associated with the drug trade blossoms. ... The negative socioeconomic effects of a drug and its use in a population do not simply disappear if the drug is legalized. ...

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DRUG ABUSE People in this world value certain things. ... Marijuana has become such a dangerous drug because is a gateway to other addictive drugs. ... Drug abuse uses society's resources by requiring that hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars be spent on funding enforcement agencies, educational programs and treatment facilities (Plant). ... Drug abuse must be stopped. ... If fighting drug abuse were made a top priority, we could probably wage an effective war, through education and enforcement of laws, to stop drug abuse once and for all. ...

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There are over 40 million illegal drug users in the world today and America is the biggest market for drugs. ... Alcohol is a very addictive drug C. ... Marijuana is a popular drug. ... Drug use itself can be a crime. ... Drug abuse drains sociey's resources by requiring that taxes be spent on funding enforcement agencies, educational programs and treatment facilities and on prosecution of drug users and dealers C. ...

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The "Just Say No" movement was coupled with rigorous law enforcement and produced solid results. ... There are also many laws that help enforce the abuse of drugs and alcohol. One thing a person can do to help combat in this area is to support your local law enforcement officials. One could also help by working for a law enforcement agency, such as your local police force, or even as high up as the DEA. ... Anti-abuse programs such as "Just Say No" and other abstinence programs, along with laws to enforce drug and alcohol abuse help greatly in the fight against drug and alcohol abuse. ...

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Nixon felt that drugs are bad, so bad people do drugs. ... Instead, it is supporting two drug enforcement and drug trafficking. America's enforcement-oriented strategy has resulted in millions of arrests and hundreds of thousands of prisoners who are Black or Hispanic. ... The policy has failed to reduce drug-related deaths, drug abuse, drug availability, and crime. laws against drugs not being an effective solution. ... Regardless, law enforcement tactics are concentrated in the poor minority neighborhoods. 2. ...

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Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. ... During the 1980s, it appeared that Central America was awash in drugs, and drug money. The violence continues today, through drug related gang violence, to botched drug raids. Drug dealers often carry weapons, some illegal, to defend themselves and their drugs. ... Many drug users say that the first drugs they ever used were the two socially sanctioned drugs, alcohol and tobacco. ...

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Drugs: Should Be Legalized Our societies are decaying due to an incessant war against drugs. ... In addition, it will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement and it will increase our country's revenue. ... The same thing should happen with drugs. ... She says, pointing that the solution is to keep enforcing addicts that are not convinced of what is better for them or fully interested on their own well being, to stop consuming those substances that only cause them harm. ... It will save the great amounts of money spent on enforcement and not only that but also he...

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The United States spent roughly one billion dollars on marijuana enforcement last year and the Drug Enforcement Agency has proposed a four hundred percent increase in anti-pot spending within the next ten years yet domestic marijuana has only been reduced by ten percent (NORML 2). ... In 1985, MDMA/Ecstasy received massive media attention when a group of people sued the United States Drug Enforcement Agency to try to prevent them from outlawing the drug by placing it on Schedule I (Narconan 2). The Drug Enforcement Agency utilized a law, recently passed in Congress, to put an emergency ban o...

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With fewer tax dollars going towards the Drug Enforcement Agency, law enforcement, and court systems, programs such as after school sports and performing arts centers would be better funded. ... My first two marriages ended because of drug use by my spouses. ... After my second marriage failed due to drug use I felt very alone. ... Drugs changed their entire personality. ... Drug use destroys your body. ...

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Abstract Hiring and retaining more women provides numerous important advantages to law enforcement agencies. ... The Kitchen Is Closed The Hiring and Retention of Women in Law Enforcement "A man's got to do what a man's got to do. ... Only 12.7% of all sworn law enforcement positions in large agencies were held by women in 2001. ... There is a crisis in law enforcement today. ... We screen for drug use, criminal background, but we don't do much screening for people who can get along with other peopleA good cop knows how to defuse the situation by talking it out. ...

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Alcohol is a very addictive drug. ... Drug use, itself, can be a crime. ... Drug abuse is a plague to society. ... Drug abuse must be stopped. ... If fighting drug abuse were made a top priority, we could probably wage an effective war, through education and enforcement of laws, to stop drug abuse. ...

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One possibility for controlling drug abuse is to legalize illegal drugs. ... Legalizing drugs is a viable alternative to the current policy on drugs in America. ... The market for drugs is one of supply and demand and people demand illegal drugs. ... 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. ... In Holland, where drugs laws are more flexible, drug usage has not gone up. ...

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However, the federal government and its drug enforcement agencies claim there is no distinction in federal law. ... Classified as a Schedule I drug, cannabis belongs to the most restrictive categories for psychoactive drugs in the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) five categories. Drugs in this category meet three criteria: the drug has high potential for abuse; the drug has not therapeutic value; the drug is not safe for medicinal use. ... Today's marijuana is far stronger than it was two or three decades ago; therefore, a wide margin of safety would be enforced when its used ...

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