"The fact that the levels of drug-related crime would significantly decline would result in less crowded courts, jails, and prisons, and would free law enforcement personnel to focus their energies on the real criminals in society" (Inciardi/McElrath, 287). ... If drugs were legalized, all drug-related crimes would end. ... If drugs were legalized, drug-related careers would not exist. ... Drug trafficking is the illegal sale and exportation of drugs. ... Drug trafficking will be stopped if drugs become legal. ...

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Since drug addiction is so detrimental to society, why would the legalization of drugs be a good idea? ... He believes there should be no laws at all against the use of the drugs, meaning that there is no limit to how much of the drug can be taken as long as the use of the drug does not harm anyone else. ... In order for law enforcement to continue this war on drugs, billions of dollars must be spent each year. ... Legalizing drugs would advocate more drug use than there already is. ... The number of drug addicts are kept much smaller through the illegality of drugs than if they were to be...

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The United States has taken steps to stop the use of drugs by making them illegal and enforcing this law greatly, but perhaps it is time for a new system. ... The government has placed restrictions on people's decision to use drugs, other than alcohol and tobacco, and they enforce it by filling prisons with non-violent drug users. ... Second, there would be a reduction spent on law enforcement efforts to prosecute users and sellers of marijuana and other drugs (Marshall 92). ... Another argument is that only through law enforcement and criminal justice pressure do addicts receive treatm...

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The presidents" 1993 budget allocated about $15.8 billion for all law enforcement programs, which included hiring more drug agents for The Drug Enforcement (Bender). ... The Drug Enforcement Agency has said they don't want marijuana to be legal due to the fact that there is no real hard evidence that proves marijuana is an effective drug as a medicine. ... The Drug Enforcement Agency spends about $23 million a year to incarcerate nonviolent marijuana offenders. ... Second, there would be a reduction on the amount spent on law Enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and s...

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In the book, The Case for Legalizing Drugs, it states, "Legalizing drugs would promote public health, not harm it. ... The drug enforcement authorities would reduce their budget requests, or most likely, focus more intensely on harder drugs and violent crimes. ... Federal, state and local governments spend about 100 billion dollars a year on law enforcement and criminal justice programs. There is about 35 billion dollars, which is directly related to drug law enforcement and probably another 15 billion related to crimes committed to obtain drug money. In one year, about 50 billion dollars ...

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It was because of this huge debacle that Congress saw that better administrators were needed to watch over and enforce the laws in place. ... They also support and assist all levels of domestic and international law enforcement when called upon to do so. ... Using the state of the art computer ballistics matching, ATF helps all levels of law enforcement track down criminals involved in shootings. Hiring and Selection Process As with all levels of law enforcement, the agent has to be an American citizen and be between the ages of 21 and 37. ... An array of other routine tests is given ...

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Now if the law enforcement or the court system does not deal with it in a just manner, then justice is due. ... The only way a vigilante's actions can be considered right is if there was no law enforcement and justice must be carried out, or if the law enforcement did not properly justify the situation. ... Vigilantes are also seen in modern urban areas since the rise of the drug underworld. Many neighborhood watch type programs have started in order to help keep violence and drugs off the streets and out of their neighborhoods. In some cases people goes as far as arson and murder to rid ...

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Now if the law enforcement or the court system does not deal with it in a just manner, then justice is due. ... The only way a vigilante's actions can be considered right is if there was no law enforcement and justice must be carried out, or if the law enforcement did not properly justify the situation. ... Vigilantes are also seen in modern urban areas since the rise of the drug underworld. Many neighborhood watch type programs have started in order to help keep violence and drugs off the streets and out of their neighborhoods. In some cases people goes as far as arson and murder to rid ...

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There are more marijuana related arrests made per year than any other drug combined (Nadelmann). ... James Austin, President of the JFA Institute reported that "enforcing marijuana laws costs over 7.6 billion per year," not including court costs and correction policies (Austin). It costs federal and state government far too much to crack down on marijuana consumers, when funding should be enforced on areas of greater concern, such as education and healthcare. ... "By contrast, 32 percent of tobacco users and 15 percent of alcohol users are drug dependent," (Armentano). It seems as if the le...

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With that being said federal governments cannot regulate laws drugs but only the states legislatives can. ... The war on drugs has had a dramatic use when it comes in for the cost of war starting in 1971 when president Nixon went without congress approval to declare war on drugs on July 17, 1971 (Kieffer, Par11). ... Just as Kieffer states "Drug use is a health, not a criminal issue"(Kieffer, line59) which I agree with because most children use drugs as a way to distract them from different issues going on in their life. ... All this extra money can be used to fund programs and decre...

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What the 'Zero Tolerance' policy meant was that all laws would be strictly enforced comes along with aggressive police enforcement (Grabosky, 1999). ... Bush has always been committed to engaging in a war on drugs (Whalen, 2001). ... Bush took military action in Panama to counter cartel drug activity (Whalen, 2001). ... This corruption makes things even hard for the United States in dealing with drug traffickers and money launders. When this cartel produced drug activity spills over into the U.S. the criminals must be dealt with within the U.S. court system, as stated in the article...

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Another reason for denying the individual right to privacy to American citizens is to battle against ""drugs," "terrorism," and "money laundering"" (Goldsmith "Current State"). ... Gottfried points out that the methods used by law enforcement to catch criminals often interfere with the lives of law-abiding citizens as well. ... Therefore the privacy of innocent people along with the suspect is being invaded by law enforcement. ... These medical records should be kept confidential because they may include medical conditions the patient does not want revealed such as mental health issues or p...

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Billions of drug money has been derived from marijuana, causing vast amounts of criminal outbreaks and many deaths. ... (Drug Facts) Body The issue of legalizing medical marijuana has been debated intensely on both sides of the argument. ... The enforcement of such laws and regulations must be abided to very strictly and in a professional manner. ... This effect of marijuana can cause patients that have a serious dependence upon this drug. ... (Drug) In an effort to understand why patients require this form...

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Marijuana is also far less addictive than any other drug. ... Marijuana is far less likely to be abused, if it can even be abused, than any drug such as alcohol. ... Judicial branch enforces what the executive branch makes the rules to be as far as use of marijuana and all the steps in supplying the processed product. ... The only negative thing the public as a whole would disagree with is probably if an age limit is enforced, and it will be, but still, they all would be in favor of decriminalization of marijuana - a lot of relatives in the nation would be freed, of course the public wil...

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The main problem with this is that the government made strict punishment for crimes and then 90% of the time the punishments do not get enforced. ... The most controversial bargain is the fact bargain where they agree to change facts, like amount of drugs, in exchange for a guilty plea. ...

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