Anthropologists would look into the cultural background of marijuana and find that Marijuana is the most widely used drug in North America after a alcohol and cigarettes, which are both legal. ... 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 treatment programs. ... ...

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Abused drugs include heroin, marijuana, anabolic steroids, cocaine, amphetamines, and prescription drugs. Substance abuse results in social problems such as violence, child abuse, stress and drugged driving. ... Global crimes include money laundering, terrorism, dealing in illicit drugs, war crimes, illegal trafficking in human beings and weapons. ... Use of illegal trafficked drugs threatens neighborhoods around the globe. ...

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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 Gene Callahan and William Anderson's online article, they infer that, "on the contrary, the practice of racial profiling grows from a trio of very tangible sources, all attributable to the war on drugs, that $37 billion annual effort on the part of local, state, and federal lawmakers and cops to stop the sale and use of "illicit" substances&...

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As we see in There Are No Children Here, the neighborhood surrounding Henry Horner Homes became a breeding ground for drug dealers and thieves (pgs 12-304). In order to achieve an income that would allow them to live comfortably in a consumer market, unemployed people got involved in these illicit activities. ...

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