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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For more than 50 years, drug prohibition, with an emphasis on enforcement through criminal justice measures, has been the policy of the United States as well as rest of the world's countries (Levine 2002). ... Drug prices have also continued to fall, and drugs remain easily available for much of the population (Wodak 2014). ... Violence in drug markets is one of the negative effects of drug prohibition (Miron 2001). ... Because of an aggressive law enforcement campaign against the use and sale of illegal drugs, the rate of incarceration for drug offenses increased nearly tenfold from 1980...

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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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The enforcement of alcohol also cost the government large sums of money. After the first year of enforcement, America lost 5 million dollars. ... Both cases involved in some way the banning of a mind altering drug or drugs. ... This so called "War on Drugs" has done nothing to lessen illegal drug use in the US. ... I'm not saying that all drugs should be made legal, just the so called "Soft Drugs" like Cannabis and Phsycadelics. ...

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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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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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Alcohol/Drug Abuse Today alcohol is accepted in a social gathering or in a rich environment. ... Programs like D.A.R.E. tells kids from an early age how bad drugs and alcohol can be, so they know when that time comes for their first party or event that evolve such substances. No success has really shown in anybodies fight against alcohol/drugs. ... They will continue to always have groups to help the addicted and to teach the young about the bad things that these drugs can bring to your life. ... Enforcement of prohibition became very difficult. ...

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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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Should we make some drugs legal or should we leave it as is? ... They are selling it on the streets and even in schools but no one has made a point to enforce that it is illegal. ... A few think that marijuana is the "gateway drug". ... With that, there were specific rules that were enforced. ... We need to make some changes and enforce that all drugs are illegal and should remain that way. ...

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Coffee is the most widely used psychoactive drug beverage in the world. ... There are far worse drugs and other societal issues for the government and law enforcement agencies to worry about. ... Statistically the average marijuana smoker is arrested every 45 seconds in the U.S. and Canada; imagine how much that would free up law enforcement if not for petty arrests and citations? ... So the "War on Drugs" continued with clever advertising slogans such as: "Just Say NO to Drugs". ... The war on drugs can be focused on the severe drugs like: cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and...

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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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Teenagers particularly are using the drug more today. ... There needs to be more done to get drugs like meth off the street. ... Many more billions are spent by the states on drug interdiction, drug-law enforcement, and drug prosecutions. ... Crystal Meth is a terrible drug. The drug causes addiction and is invading the United States. ...

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Effects of Legalizing Marijuana Many feel today we are loosing the war on drugs. ... It is now time to look at alternative methods to solving the nation's drug problem. ... Such a dramatic decrease in drug dealers has not only resulted in crime reduction in England but there was also a decrease of drug use.                ... The drug itself may not cause violent crime but people involved in the distributing of marijuana do. ... Actually, the legalization of marijuana would put money which is used for law enforcement into the construction of better educational programs and p...

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People all over this country have argued over the safety and effects the drug would have on society. ... Sales taxes ($0.2 - $1.3 billion), enforcement savings ($6 - $9 billion), and the hemp industry ($6 - $10 billion). ... The next point that is usually brought up in a debate over the legalization of marijuana would be if this drug was legalized more people would try harder drugs because after all marijuana is a "gateway drug". To argue this, first of all there is no scientific proof that marijuana is a gateway drug. ... Legalizing marijuana will lessen the chance of children getting the...

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Has the war on drugs really made a difference? ... Miron's findings break down the revenue savings into different distinctive areas. 7.7 billion dollars would be saved annually just by ending the enforcement efforts to maintain marijuana's prohibition. ... Data lists of all deaths for the year 2009 has legal prescription drugs positioned above half of all deaths which includes alcohol, illicit drugs with zero deaths being attributed to marijuana (Narcon International). ... Marijuana is not the great evil; it is not the "gateway drug" or a killer. Instead it is a healer, it is environ...

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Even with this new law, people continued to use the drug. ... To some people marijuana is considered a "gateway" drug. ... If marijuana were legalized, those people would try the drug, like it, and then perhaps move on to much more damaging drugs. ... The legalization of cannabis would allow the United States to reduce government spending on enforcing drug laws and would allow the United States to enjoy new tax revenue from legal drug production and sales. ... The drug dealers would possibly be put out of business, and the shootouts over drug related crimes would likely end. ...

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Although some people think that sex and/or drugs are immoral actions or debaucheries, these acts only become debaucheries when they are abused and they don't serve their true purpose: sex for procreation and drugs for medicinal purpose. ... The amount of pleasure people get from sex is the same amount of pleasure some people find in drugs. ... Drug threats will bring the country down, and the effects that every drug can cause can corrupt everyone's mindset. ... A common drug that is fighting for legalization is Cannabis or popularly known as Marijuana. ... The law enforcement resour...

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The growth of major cities allowed the organized crime to flourish and, "make the provision of prostitution, gambling, and illicit drugs a profitable enterprise" (galegroup.com). ... Interference by law enforcement was handled not only through bribery but also by infiltration. ... Most big-city mayors opposed the very concept of prohibition While they deplored the violence of organized crime wars, "mayors feared that law enforcement would exacerbate the problem by disturbing the gangs' territorial and revenue-sharing agreements" (thefinertimes.com). ... The money sp...

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