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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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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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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It's this drug that helps them pass the time, day after day. ... And it is becoming more common to see this helpful drug being prescribed by doctors. Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers around $10 billion annually and results in the arrest of more then 734,000 individuals each year. ... President Jimmy Carter once said "penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual then the use of the drug itself." ... How about a little fact to end on; marijuana is a stimulant and sedative drug at the same time. ...

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When compared to currently available legal substances and drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol, marijuana seems less of a threat then pictured. ... Currently laws enforcing marijuana prohibition further overcrowd our jails and divert scarce public safety resources away from issues and problems that really need attention. Stiffer sentencing on drug offenders has overcrowded jails in the United States so much that violent criminals including murderers have been given earlier releases to make room for guys who've been handed mandatory life terms without the possibility of parole for their "t...

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Marijuana is probably the most popular drug used by people across the country. ... There is also nothing in marijuana that would cause people to use other drugs. ... The deaths in which have been caused by marijuana were not from the drug itself, but from police officers trying to enforce the marijuana laws. ... (Rosenthal, pg.74) Years of researching marijuana prove it is just as safe, if not safer than prescription drugs, and less dangerous than alcohol. ... Not only does the marijuana prohibition make buying pot more dangerous, it exposes people to more dangerous drugs, and violence...

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Against, and For, Legalization There is, as would be expected, the age-old outcry against drugs being legal, no matter what the drug. ... Some may argue that we already have alcohol as a legal drug, and that we do not need another. ... The idea is to make the drug available to those in great pain. ... This is arguably due to the fact that "present classification failed to differentiate between hard drugs and cannabis, leading young people to believe that hard drugs are not dangerous and making it difficult to give convincing anti-drug advice" (Anonymous More calls for legalized cannabis 5). ...

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What's changed today is that our attitudes towards illegal drugs are becoming more sophisticated and discriminating. ... We know that it is plain nonsense to regard cannabis as a performance-enhancing drug, just as it is a myth to think the substance rots the brain or is a gateway drug. ... One major contributor to the spread of anti-legalization information is the Drug Enforcement Agency. ... The DEA is clearly opposed to the legalization of illicit drugs. ... Suddenly they are arrested, jailed and treated like criminals solely because of their recreational drug of choice. ...

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To enforce marijuana prohibition, taxpayers shell out an estimated $10 billion annually, with only 734,000 arrests. ... Substance abuse rises wherever the public is tolerant of drug laws. ... They hold charity events annually to raise enough money for drug education. Each year the CNOA tracks bills that would benefit the public on the war on drugs. ... They believe that innocent people die in pain because the drug is illegal. ...

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While most pot laws across America are becoming more lenient to their policies than they were decades ago, citizens being arrested for marijuana account for half of drug arrests adding to the millions of people incarcerated in prisons and the seven billion dollars the government dumps for prohibition. ... For something like weed which is used wide spread, punishing pot users and chasing after them is more of a waste of time for the police than it is for them to bust an underground meth lab- the drug itself is capable of offering harsher physical effects to the body than pot. ... While a flood ...

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