"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." ... Milton on Reforming Education School Vouchers: The Next Great Leap Forward As nice as public school choice sounds good, "in reality it has about as much potential for real change as did agricultural reforms in communist Russia." ... The current unions...

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School administrators of the 21 st century want to have students free of all illegal drugs. ... Acton that middle-school and high-school athletes can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation (New York Times 1995)." ... Since 1995 drug testing in high school athletics has been on a rise. ... They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law." ... They support the political enviorment of a catholic by supporting laws that help to prevent the use of drugs except for use in ...

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In the decades to follow several federal agencies had drug law enforcement responsibilities. ... Nevertheless, American children could still walk to school in relative safety, worrying only about report cards and the neighborhood bully. Today however, as children approach their schools, they see barbed wire, metal detectors, and signs warning drug dealers that school property is a drug free zone. ... Drug law enforcement agencies such as the DEA face a daily challenge in protecting the country's borders. ... Additionally, a small amount of LSD manufacturer's are distributing prim...

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More law enforcement would greatly help.! ... Teens spend more time at school then at home; therefore, they see more of what goes on at school than at hoe. ... There should also be more law enforcement. ... More laws can be created to help solve the drug problem. Many ideas for laws have come up, but sometimes many these proposed laws won't be passed according to Congress. ...

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Many countries in Europe have adopted a less harsh view on their drug laws, and have done well. ... Drug crimes can be prosecuted under federal law and offenders can be put into federal prison. The laws of the nation, if they are applied to the nation, should be made up by the opinions of those who live in that nation. The drug laws of this nation are horribly out of sync with the view of the populace. ... The D.A.R.E. program, abundant in public schools around the country, has recently been questioned and removed from several school districts as it has proven no results whatsoever, and ha...

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Preventing the drug use has been a major issue in the area of politics, schools, or within the families. ... These drugs are tightly controlled by federal and states laws, because of their high abuse potential. Despite the effort of law-enforcement, the demand for illegal drugs remains very high. ... With proper education in the schools, children may learn the bad effects from drugs and will learn they have no real need to try any of them. Through the proper educational programs and laws society will eventually ridden drug use as it is already deviant. ...

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Every law-abiding citizen in the United States with the gift of common sense would agree that the more heinous the crime the more the punishment should be. ... When asked to describe how he started using drugs, how they affected his life, and what he thought about them he said, "I started using drugs when I was in middle school. ... I can only count on one hand everyone I went to school with, or grew up with that hasn't done drugs. ... The Netherlands now has very liberal drug laws. ... "Defenders of America's harsh drug laws criticize the Dutch policy because its very success poses...

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• Poor grades in school, or drastic changes in grades. • Poor attendance in school. ... • There are many good books that you can get • Your local law enforcement agencies have community relation, resource, and drug prevention officers that can refer you to local agencies that can help. ... Starting off with becomes more aggressive or more withdrawn, mood swings "quickly goes from happy to sad, poor grades in school, and poor attendance in school. ... Your local law enforcement have community relation, resource, and drug prevention officers that can refer you to...

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The federal government, seeing the increase of marijuana use, passed new drug laws. ... The Court ruled that the state laws were unconstitutional since they violated the federal drug law (Supreme Court 1). ... They state that in many cases, drug users have quit because of trouble with the law. ... Sherry Stevens, a high school teacher, said, "Legalization of marijuana would increase the number of younger users. ... Until then, marijuana remains illegal under federal law....

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Current Trends in Youth Drug and Alcohol use: Since 1975 the Monitoring the Future survey (MTF) has annually studied the extent of drug abuse among high school 12th graders. ... The MTF 2002 study surveyed a representative sample of more than 43,000 students in 394 schools across the nation (www.nida.nigh.gov/NIDA_notes/NNVol17N5/Teens.html). ... This legislation helps to strengthen the law enforcement aspect by stiffening the punishment for trafficking. It also provides students of these schools a feeling of safety. ... Through tough laws, public awareness, and government funding, these...

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Likewise, Venumadhava (2013), cited that when teenagers abuse drugs, it affects their school life. He pointed out that students start losing interest in school, they also start developing a negative attitude towards school in general and their grades start falling. ... Additionally, teenagers who abuse drugs tend to stay away from school very often and without permission, also, they become very disruptive at school. ... "Not surprisingly, cannabis users displayed overall poorer school performance, spent less time on homework and had more school absenteeism than non-users. ... There is a bre...

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Opponents to legalization are usually law enforcement and government officials. ... Law enforcement is here to make sure things continue flowing. ... Then there are the people that are going to school. ... Completing high school or at least getting your G.E.D. is a definite must for almost every job that can allow you to support yourself. Worland also talked about how 6.5 percent of high school seniors smoke marijuana daily, which has increased by 4.1 since the year 1993. ...

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Marijuana should be legalized because current drug laws are not working, it has medical uses, crime rate will decrease, and the War on Terror can be won if marijuana is legalized. ... American drug laws are not currently working marijuana is still a widely used drug. ... One government surveys about eighty-five percent of high school seniors say it is "very easy" or "fairly easy" to obtain marijuana. ... However federal law supercedes state law and prevents marijuana possession in those states (18). ... Current marijuana laws now do the opposite of lowering crime rates. ...

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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." (36123) His opinions were the same as some Americans feel today over the prohibition of drugs. ... (Unanswered) In 1996, voters in California approved a law that relaxes regulations on medical marijuana. ... Since then Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, Maine, and Nevada have passed similar laws. ... Ethan Nadelman, an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University wrote in the book Drug Abuse, Opposin...

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The United States has taken steps to stop the use of drugs by making them illegal and enforcing this law greatly, but perhaps it is time for a new system. ... The consequences of this "war" are as followed: neighborhood turf wars and shoot-outs, family ruins, school failure and wreckage, crack babies, kids dealing drugs, addicts felled by AIDS, cops corrupted, courts and prisons over crowded, and homicides due to drug dealing (Bender 31). ... Second, there would be a reduction spent on law enforcement efforts to prosecute users and sellers of marijuana and other drugs (Marshall 92). ... Anoth...

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Lately, marijuana laws have been a very common controversial topic on the news and in the political arena. ... In a 1986 article in the pharmacological review, Leo Hollister of the Stanford University School of Medicine said that: "Compared with other licit social drugs, such as alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine, marijuana does not pose greater risks." ... Judge Whitman Knapp said that: "After twenty years on the bench, I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster. ...

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Yea there have been polls conducted and studies that show a large number of cocaine and heroin users have used marijuana, but not the other way around. 1) A nation wide high school survey taken in 1990 told us that 41% of all high school students have tried marijuana or hash (a derivative of cannabis) and less than 10% ever went on to try cocaine and right at 1% to ever try heroin. 2) In Holland where marijuana is legal only .3% of 12-17 year-olds had ever tried cocaine. ... There have been federally funded researchers who have been studying high school students" drug use since the mid 70...

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The law makes it legal for patients and their designated primary caregivers to possess and cultivate cannabis for their personal medical use given the recommendation or approval of a California- licensed physician[ CITATION Can13 l 3081 ]. ... Therefore, since Spanish laws cannot reach into homes and other privately-owned spaces, the practice of medical cannabis is prevalent. [ CITATION Med l 3081 ].Legalising CBD cannabis in these countries is allowing people suffering from medical conditions to obtain pain relief by legally ingesting and possessing this drug. ... Under the Australian const...

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He believes there should be no laws at all against the use of the drugs, meaning that there is no limit to how much of the drug can be taken as long as the use of the drug does not harm anyone else. ... In order for law enforcement to continue this war on drugs, billions of dollars must be spent each year. ... Just as schools and groups try to talk to children about not using tobacco and many times fail in the process, it would be extremely difficult to talk children out of using drugs if they were legal. ... If the parents are caught, the law would probably punish them, but how many times ...

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Former Hawaii Governor, Benjamin Cayetano signed a bill on Wednesday, June 15th 2000, legalizing the medical use of marijuana, making his state the first to pass such a law through the legislature. While Hawaii joins seven other states like Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Maine and California, as well as the District of Columbia they are other states who approved the medical marijuana laws. But of course, people in Hawaii are taking advantage of recent changes in Hawaii's laws and using marijuana for recreational purposes. ... Law enforcement officials described marijuana ...

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These values are ethics, fair play and honesty, community and solidarity, health, courage, excellence in performance, respect for self and other participants, character and education, respect for rules and laws, fun and joy, dedication and commitment, and teamwork. ... Many male high school athletes view professional athletes as role models. ...

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Others, make the claim that the legalization of marijuana would actually bring an increase in the use of other drugs, an increase in violent crime, and create a virtual nightmare for law enforcement. ... First, however, I feel it is important for us to take a quick glance at the origins of our current laws against marijuana and how they progressed to where we are today. ... This money could be used, to give an example, to fund drug prevention programs in our schools or community centers. ... Taxpayers are forced to fund the militarization of domestic law enforcement. ...

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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 confront other crimes. ... Of the nearly eight billion that Bush asked Congress to allocate, the plan outlined that seventy percent would go to law enforcement, which also included a billion and a half for jails. ... These circumstances then encourage children and teenagers in these poor neighborhoods to neglect or totally drop out of school, which leav...

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According to the 1998 National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse survey 55% of graduating high school seniors have tried it at least once. ... (Justice Policy Inst) 2. 55% of high school seniors say they have tried it. (1998 National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse survey) B. ... Imprisoning 458,000 people costs our government $9 billion annually. 2. $10 billion a year in prosecutions 3. $10 billion a year in local and federal law enforcement 4. $19 billion for 2002 for anti-drug budget ( High Times Magazine ) Transition: With so many people in our country using marijuan...

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Health problems, DWI's, accidents, arrests, and impaired school as well as job performance are a few of the factors caused by drug use. ... Some teens may have even dropped out of school, or are failing to meet the standards set for them, giving them a lacking sense of self-worth. ... Outer containment is like the your bonds to teachers, friends, family, and the law. ... The University of Michigan's 1996 Monitoring the Future study found that more than half of all high school students use illicit drugs by the time they graduate. ... The more we can promote drug-free environment...

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