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. ... It's an interesting fact that although the crime rate has continually declined since 1992, (going to have to find some statistics to quote here. Look for crime rate increases on the internet) though the prison population has risen. ...

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The proportion of drug users in the incarcerated population also grew at the same time. By the end of the 1980's, about one-third of those sent to state prisons had been convicted of a drug offense; the highest in the country's history (Reuter 1992, pp. 323-395). ... This rise in population is largely due to the number of inmates serving time for drug offenses (Siegel 1998). ... This is due to the fact that if they live with the general population, it is much harder to break away from old habits. ... Pro-social values should be taught in an environment that is separate from the norma...

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The rate was highest in 1979 16.3 percent, declined to 5.3 percent in 1992, then increased to 10.9 percent in 1995. The estimate of cocaine users 12 and older in the us in 1998 was 1.8 million people down from its peak in 1985 of 3 percent of the total population in the united states. ... Even the population in general has come to see the point that drug use is bad and that its effects are not just temporary but eternal. ...

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The issue of limited prison space gains significance greatly when you consider an estimated sixty-percent of prison population is serving time on drug conviction. ... (Duke) As of 1992 an estimated sixty million people have tried and or used marijuana and there has yet to be one recorded death attributed to overdose. ... These are significant numbers considering that sixty percent of the prison population has been jailed due to drug violations. ...

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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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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. ... The cost of addiction and recovery treatments in the United States has been enormous A study prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimated the total economic cost of alcohol and drug abuse to be $245.7 billion for 1992. ... [Online] www.nida.gov The 1992 cost had d...

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The total number of annual marijuana arrests, having dipped in the 1980s, has been rising sharply since 1992 (MacCoun, Rueter, 2001). ... Calculations based on recent BJS reports suggest that, at any one time, 59,300 prisoners charged with or convicted of violating marijuana laws (3.3% of the total incarcerated population) are behind bars, at a total cost to taxpayers of some $1.2 billion per year. They represent almost 12% of the total federal prison population and about 2.7% of the state prison population. ... Although African Americans comprise only 12.2 percent of the population and 13 pe...

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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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"COCAINE AND CRACK What is Cocaine/crack? Cocaine is the most powerful central nerve system stimulant in nature. Cocaine is white powder made from the coca plant in the Andean mountains in South Africa. Thousands of years ago cocaine was used for religious ceremonies. As time went by people who lived in the Andean mountains either made tea from them or chewed on the coca leaves. ...

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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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