Everyday billions upon billions of dollars worth of illicit drugs are smuggled into the country to take over our street corners, turn our neighborhoods into war zones, and turn children into puppets. ... America has let this happen by trying not just to prevent or even slow down, but to put a complete halt to all forms of illicit drug use and trafficking. ... "Zero tolerance" laws throughout the nation have resulted in the decay of the constitution's Due Process clause. ... While it has been proven that teenagers are more likely to be susceptible to experimenting with drugs as compared...

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Cannabis is an illicit drug, which can be smoked or eaten to affect an individual's mood or state. ... In Australia, over 250 million dollars per year is spent on law enforcement for illicit drugs (Rozzoli, 1994). Advantage of legalizing cannabis would mean that the money spent for law enforcement of illicit drugs mean that it could be put to other harmful drugs in society such as heroin or the government could use the money to create education programs about how to use the drug and services where cannabis would be licensed therefore regulators control its potency of tetrahydrocannabinol....

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There are an estimated 21millilon people over the age of 12 addicted to illicit drugs (drugwarfacts.org). ... Unlike the law enforcement model which simply wants to punish users with arrest and stiff jail terms, harm reduction wants to meet the addict where they are while not condoning their drug use gives them a safe way to use and dispose of their used syringes. ... " He continues by bulleting: * Addicts still are prone to death, perhaps not from HIV, but from overdose, collapsed veins, poisoned dope, or the violence and criminality that go along with the illicit drug trade... * Drug...

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