Over crowding prisons with non violent offenders really eliminates space for future violent offenders One ramification of overcrowding is double-celling, which is why it is a serious concern in Missouri. ... Double-celling is a term that seems to bring many questions to mind. One question that really seems to trigger through people mind is, is double-celling a cruel and unusual punishment? ... If one state decides to allow double celling, then multiple states will allow the same process. ... Toiletry, hygiene, and catering facilities become poor to serve a growing prison population, the hea...

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In fact, in 1900, there were more narcotic addicts, proportionate to the population than these today, (Musto, p.112). ... The use of narcotic drugs dropped sharply between 1920 $BCT (J, when there were almost half million addicts, and 1945, when the population of addicts was around 40,000 to 50,000. ... For example, between 1970 to 1977, the number of arrests on marijuana charges in the United States more than doubled from 188,000 to 457,000 (Jones,Lovinger, p.67). During this same era, however, the percentage of the American population who had ever used marijuana also doubled for most age cat...

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America has a jail population of (insert jail pop here). ... We ruin the lives of a significant portion of our population in a vain attempt at a "drug-free nation". ... As of April 22, 2001, the population of the United States was 284,049,859. ... Look for crime rate increases on the internet) though the prison population has risen. ... The U.S. is taxing the resources that it can afford to expend on the penitentiaries that it has built, so they"re crowding them in at double capacity to handle the flow. ...

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In a report entitled "Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug Offenders in the United States, it was found that, since 1980, the number of persons imprisoned for drug offenses has increased eleven-fold, while the number of violent offenders entering state prisons has doubled and the number of nonviolent prisoners has tripled," (Justice Policy Institute, 2000). ... Drug offenders represent a large number of the prison population. ...

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After the end of prohibition with the 21st amendment, alcohol consumption doubled while prohibition decreased use by 50 percent.... By legalizing marijuana the American population can use its money and resources to combat the drug problem through rehabilitation and education instead of stalling the problem through the legal system. ...

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Emergency room visits related to OxyContin have almost doubled since 1996 when OxyContin first hit the market; medical examiner reports with deaths associated with OxyContin jumped 93 percent between 1997 and 1998 (Spake 56). ... Purdue Pharma has also put out a series of Public Service Radio Announcements targeted to teens in six states, to alert this vulnerable population about the dangers of prescription drug abuse....

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Most of the dealers have double income because their profit is created by trafficking marijuana plus most of the dealers receive a welfare check. ... Anslinger instilled all of his beliefs on the population. ...

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"Between 1992 and 1995 the marijuana usage among 12-17 year olds doubled. ... "If drugs did not exist then our governors would have intended them, to make the population more vulnerable to arrest and imprisonment (Vanity Fair 4)." ...

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The double edge to this sword is that the person is easily convinced that he or she cannot function without the substance or addiction, that he or she requires to survive" (Elements of Argument 133). ... The inner-city population is also deprived of good education and police protection. ...

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In 1996 marijuana-possession arrests exceeded 545,000 nearly a doubling in a five-year period. ... Based on the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Population Estimates 1994, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services For every 100 people who have tried marijuana 1 currently uses cocaine once a week or more (Morgan 36). ...

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It is feared that if there was a free trade of narcotics there would be "vast masses of our population spending their days and night smoking opium or mainlining heroin, rather than working and taking care of their responsibilities." ... The National Families in Action found that during the decade when eleven states decriminalized marijuana, regular use tripled among adolescence, double among young adults, and quadrupled among older adults. ...

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A study of the U.S. population found that one person out of every four have had a substance abuse problem at some time in their life The technical definition for addiction is the compulsion to use substances repeatedly, even when doing so can be dangerous. ... [Online] www.nida.gov The 1992 cost had doubled from the 1985 estimate. ...

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Drugs have become a very serious problem in the United States. They have become a component of one's every day lives. This Nation's reliance on drugs for pleasure, depression, and medical relief dominates the political and economic scene. Much debate over the drug issue occurs daily. Pleasure is one of the main reasons for drug use in America. ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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