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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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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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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"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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By criminalizing drugs, it's enforcement is not particularly effective; it saddles the criminal-justice systems with huge costs; it feeds organized criminal gangs; it causes official corruption; and it leads to large numbers of violations of civil liberties# . ... What it doesn't tell you is that hysterical drug enforcers are burning down and permanently destroying the precious and sacred Coca plants of the Columbian people. ... If drugs were decriminalized, there would be no need for a black market of drugs. ... With the legalization of drugs, billions of dollars per year would b...

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Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) have a long history in sports according to Sports in America's "Performance-Enhancing Drugs" article. ... The next drug becoming highly popular is testosterone (HGH). ... PED's are not the only drugs being used in the sporting world, recreational drugs are being used as well. ... Recreational drugs are also among the substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the international organization that enforces drug rules for the Olympics and other international sporting events. ... Athletes who use drugs and those who supply them put as much...

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Alternative To the War on Drugs The illegal usage of drugs is very prevalent in our country today. ... Although many people feel that decriminalizing drugs would increase the amount of use, drugs should be decriminalized because it will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement, decrease crime rates and it will increase our country's revenue. ... Drug decriminalization would also lead to a decrease in drug related crime. ... Drug decriminalization would allow drug users to seek medical attention without heavy repercussions. ... The war on drugs also permits...

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Where do the drugs that America consumes come from? ... Why can't America supply for their own drugs? ... Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. ... The first anti-drugs laws in America were directed to the person who used the drugs, not precisely to the drug itself. ... One of many of America's conditions or clauses to actually sign the treaty was to make the rest of the world, (or at least the countries involved in the First World War) sign to impose and adopt drug prohibition in their law enforcement (Nadelmann). ...

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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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This is not sure however ; just because they are now cheaper why would no drug users start taking the drugs? ... "Legalizing drugs would reduce enormously the number of victims of drug use who are not addicts: people who are mugged, people who are corrupted, the reduction of law and order because of the corruption of law enforcement, and the allocation of a very large fraction of law enforcement resources to this one particular activity." ... "Even if only half the effect is attributed to the war on drugs, 5,000 extra homicides a year and 45,000 extra prisoners is a high cost, and that pri...

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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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Current drug legislation has failed to reduce demand. ... A persistent myth about marijuana is that it is a gateway drug, leading to the use of harder drugs. ... It is the enforcement of the laws criminalizing the possession, use, manufacture, and distribution of marijuana that are causing the violent crime. ... The following is an excerpt from their policy on drugs which was adopted in 1994: Criminalizing the use, possession, manufacture, and distribution of drugs violates the principle that the criminal law may not be used to protect individuals from the consequences of their own autonomou...

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The root cause of prison overcrowding is the War on Drugs. ... Harsh sentencing for minor drug offenses, warrantless searches, and zero tolerance policies are just a few initiatives of the War on Drugs. ... Even America's perception of drugs before the Drug War was insignificant. ... At the beginning President Reagan's War on Drugs, law enforcement agencies were hesitant to enforce such a measure, but the President offered a treat few agencies can resist: cash. According to Michelle, "Huge cash grants were made to those law enforcement agencies that were willing to make drug-law...

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Although some chronically ill people and their physicians argue that the drug eases their pain and suffering, the question still is fiercely debated by law enforcement and the medical community (Donnelly 1-2).4 Modeled after underground pharmacies that provide AIDS patients with unapproved drugs, Buyer's Clubs have existed informally for at least 15 years. ... Drugs Enforcement Administration insist there are few, if any therapeutic uses of marijuana. ... The proceeds from an asset for features are divided among the law enforcement involved in the case, a policy that invites the abu...

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The drug use in America is not decreasing. ... Simply make each drug with a precise description of what effect good or bad the drug will have on the taker (Vanity Fair 3)." ... More law enforcement would greatly help.! ... There should also be more law enforcement. ... Officers can create their own special unit for drugs and drug testing. ...

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This legalization strategy would allow the United States to reduce enormous government expenditures on enforcing drug laws and would allow the United States to enjoy new tax revenue from legal drug production and sales. ... In the article, The War on Drugs Is Lost he says, ?...... The same is true of the war on drugs. ... The drug dealers would be put out of business, and the shootouts over drug related crimes would end. ... Opponents claim marijuana is a gateway drug. ...

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I am now a well informed marijuana activist who has studied the effects of the drugs usage via a numerical standpoint. ... Once we give up that right, there is no longer a line to be drawn saying what the government can or can not enforce in our homes. ... The D.A.R.E program has only made the drug problems worse by lying about the effects, and repercussions of drug use. ... No one I know who went thru the program believes it helped sway them from drug use. ... Especially considering that the government's drug prohibition is the cause for all the black market drug trade and crime, the ...

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