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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Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. ... "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws. ... The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget requests, or, more likely, focus more intensely on hard drugs and violent crimes. ... The illogical pattern of law enforcement, which now treats marijuana as more dangerous as alcohol, would end. ...

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Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. ... "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws. ... The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget requests, or, more likely, focus more intensely on hard drugs and violent crimes. ... The illogical pattern of law enforcement, which now treats marijuana as more dangerous as alcohol, would end. ...

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Because of that sometimes certain difficulties in the tracking of all the changes in the legislation may arise. - Joint efforts of law enforcement agencies , taking into account the legal distribution of their powers have not yet fully focused on the identification, detection, investigation and prevention of crimes in the customs area; -Lack of proper interaction between law enforcement and customs authorities largely motivated by shortcomings and irregularities in the activities of law enforcement agencies, faults in the organization of operational-investigative work, lack of institutional c...

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Today, drugs are incredibly expensive and highly uncertain in quality. ... Legalizing drugs would extremely reduce these risks. ... With the large sum of money saved from selling drugs could go towards promoting several different programs on the effects of addictive and mind-altering drugs. ... So we are able to purchase drugs easily enough. ... Ultimately, I think that, the legalization would reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement, and society will someday see that it is best in sense....

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That is the amount of money spent on the War on Drugs each year-$1,271 per second spent on law enforcement, incarceration, and interdiction. ... Enforcement of drug laws causes law enforcement officers to be more confrontational, preventing public trust. ... McNamara is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group started by retired law enforcement officials who have fought in the war on drugs and believe that war cannot be won (Martin 2009). ... Drug enforcement laws do not prevent drug trafficking nor the violence associated with the illegal trade. ... If this were a l...

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Just the opposite; it was the (Drug Enforcement Administration) DEA's chief administrative law judge, Francis L. ... Then, decades later, the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 placed all illegal and prescription drugs into five "schedules" or categories. ... This problem resulted in the establishment of Investigational New Drug compassionate access program (IND). ... Most patients never consider the idea of an illegal drug as being their best medicine. ... However, in these states mentioned, there is an enormous gray area concerning law enforcement and penalty. ...

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Drug use is a major influential force in today's world. ... Making marijuana legal will reduce the great amount of money spent on enforcement each year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead of the enforcement process. ... The illogical pattern of the law enforcement which now treats marijuana as more dangerous than alcohol would end. ... The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget request or more likely focus more intensely on hard drugs & violent crimes. ...

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This extra funding could be used to create more efficient law enforcement upon violent crime. ... Law enforcement should not be using such a massive amount of time and resources busting young people with harmless amounts of marijuana, but instead looking at the bigger picture of who is distributing the drugs committing heinous acts of violence. ... Despite the U.S enforcing the hardest drug policies in the entire world, it is the leading all other nations in marijuana use amongst its citizens. ... Marijuana is a drug that would too greatly benefit the United States for it to remain illegal. .....

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The nations drug war might sound beneficial, but in truth, it hasn't really helped our nation's drug problem. ... Making Marijuana legal would greatly reduce the vast amounts of money spent on drug law enforcement every year. For example: In 2000 well over ten billion dollars were spent on drug enforcement alone. ... The legalization would reduce the amount of time and money spent on law enforcement by more than a half. Victims of cancer, Anorexia, aids, mental disorders, and glaucoma would find quality Marijuana readily available, and could use it to ease...

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Lobbying groups show substantial evidence, that marijuana is an effective prescribed drug. ... City council women Christine Kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego "to go on the record we support the medical use marijuana; marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis. '' Many agencies, which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency and police departments, argue marijuana should not be legalized. ... The main reason why the Drug Enforcement Agency does not want marijuana to be legal is because there is no har...

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Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase the amount of drug use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on enforcement, and will therefore increase our countries revenue, lessen crime, and will also be useful in treating certain medical conditions. ... It will allow for money spent on drug law enforcement to be spent more wisely and it will increase revenue. ... Every year in the United States, ten billion dollars are spent on enforcing drug laws alone. ... Not only has the drug problem increased, but drug related proble...

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While the so-called "war on drugs" is in full stride, it still has had problems accomplishing its main goals. ... "In 1987, 10 billion dollars were spent alone just on enforcing drug laws- (Long, 114.) ... "The drug enforcement authorities might reduce their budget requests, or, more likely, focus more intensely on hard drugs and violent crimes- (Baker 23). All drug enforcement agencies could reduce their budget, and all marijuana sold can be taxed, adding tremendous amounts of what is basically profit to our: governments funding for schools and monuments/buildings, government spending and ...

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Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase amount of use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amount of money spent on law enforcement and will also be useful in treating certain medical conditions. ... Tobacco, a drug that advertises the fact it gives you cancer, is sold almost anywhere, while marijuana, a drug that causes the munchies, has to be grown in secrecy. One would think that a drug like alcohol would be taken off the market because of its unsafe properties, but it is kept legal with a poorly-enforced age restriction. ... The legaliz...

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The federal government regulates drugs through the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) (21 U.S.C. ... Under the CSA, marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug, which means that the federal government views marijuana as highly addictive and having no medical value. ... The Supreme Court has previously identified the main objectives of the CSA as conquering drug abuse and controlling the trafficking in controlled substances. ... State drug laws, including those connected to marijuana cultivation, distribution, or possession have generally been considered to be within the powers of the States (G...

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On the other hand, people believe that marijuana is a gateway drug and will only cause Americans to start using harder drugs and have a negative effect on our society. ... Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. ... (Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Weekly) Marijuana has also been proven to reduce short-term memory, and makes it harder to concentrate. ... (Drug Enforcement Administration) According to Infofax, "Someone who smokes marijuana may have many of the same respiratory problems as to...

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Finally they would find out how much it is costing government to enforce Canada's pot laws is estimated at 300 million dollars, with only 20,000 people arrested on marijuana possession charges each year. ... Taxes from the legalized selling of marijuana could be used to help those who have problems with more seriously harmful drugs also the money that the government spends on enforcing the marijuana laws could be used in the same way. ... This money could be used to help with more illicit drug trade with stuff like cocaine and heroin and funding overall drug use prevention and treatme...

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Through the legalization of marijuana, the Canadian society can benefit through positive effects, including; a control of the marijuana substance; a decrease of usage of both legal and illegal drugs; and an increase in tax revenues, along with a decrease in government spending on drug enforcement and crime. ... By allowing drug users a legal way of stimulating and achieving a similar high, many drug addicts would decrease or all together, stop the practice of using harder drugs, such as cocaine or heroin. ... However, through the legalization of "soft drugs" like marijuana in The Netherlands...

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The War on Drugs in this sense is convenient; instead the War on Drugs should be understood as a special case of what war has always been on how force and violence against certain communities pertains to certain political objectives. ... In Bob Herbert's article, "hounding the innocent" (1999), he asserts that the authority (justice system) in the United States enforces law based on ethnic profiling. ... In the discussion about the extent of racial profiling, "most Americans have no idea of the extent of the raced-based profiling that is carried out by the law-enforcement o...

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Without the enforcement of laws, there is nothing to differentiate right from wrong. Without laws being enforced there would be total chaos among mankind. The reason that we can live the way we live, without fear is due to laws being enforced daily. ... Things like murder, stealing, harassment, rape, and drugs would destroy communities. Due to the lack of enforcement would ruin the way we live our lives. ...

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Personally, I know people who use this drug and think that is a load of crap. ... Some people who are against it say that it is an addictive drug. ... There are many good reasons for legalizing this drug. ... The government would also be able to reduce the number of policemen enforcing the drug regulations on this substance. ... Legalizing this drug would reduce the amount of crime related with pot use. ...

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In Alaska there are laws against marijuana however, law enforcement refuses to punish individuals who grow up to two plants. ... Marijuana is the only illicit drug that has never had a fatality because of overdosing. This drug has never been proven to be addictive in any way. Alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine are what I believe to be the worst drugs in the world because they are some of the most addictive drugs in the world (even more so than cocaine, and met amphetamines) and the most acceptable drugs used in the world. ... These drugs have been legal ever since this great country has been here...

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Eventually companies will be licensed to sell marijuana cigarettes or more commonly know as "joints" and the immense revenue made from taxation of marijuana and the saved budget once spent on the prohibition of Marijuana could be spent on anti drug programs targeting much more dangerous drugs like cocaine and morphine. ... Well on a dictionary outlook it means " A habit-forming substance whose use may lead to the abuse of drugs that are more addictive or more dangerous"; or more simply put a substance that opens the doors to more harmful drugs. ... Just because over the years it has become...

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Well-documented, experimentally tested uses for marijuana include controlling nausea from cancer drugs, AIDS drugs, AIDS, and relieving lack of hunger and weight loss from AIDS and drug therapy. ... Eventually, drug dealers will find a decrease in the benefit of selling marijuana and they'll drop it; one less drug to worry about. ... The senator criticized the current laws banning the drug, saying that it drives up the cost of marijuana and enriches drug dealers and international organized crime in a way that could be avoided through government regulation. " (Brockett). ... Smoking the...

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