While it may appear that certain government actions adequately tackle the drug trade, it is obscure to many how deficient the efforts truly are at ceasing the drug market. ... The illegal drug trade can be understood with an analysis of a market in economics. ... With such a decentralized structure, the drug market remains astoundingly adaptable and strong.52 Due to these problems, it is evident why the war on drugs in the United States was a failed attempt. ... As the United States' drug strategy was said to be effective by focusing on drug makers, it really turned out to be a direct a...

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As a component of president Nixon's war on drugs - the IRS spent 12 million dollars targeting 1,011 suspected dealers. ... Of these 43 cases only 13 resulted in conviction - roughly 1.5% of the initial target (Brenner, "The Legalization of Drugs: Why Prolong the Inevitable?" ... It forces drug users into contact with real criminals and the underground market. ... Drug prohibition entices young individuals into the crime arena by creating an extremely lucrative black market. ... Decriminalization would result in the destruction of the black market for drugs. ...

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"Legalizing drugs, according to ant-prohibitionists, will eliminate the black market, reducing associated violence and involvement of organized crime in the process" (Debate, 4). ... If drugs were legalized, no one would be selling drugs on the black market and creating violence. ... "Not only would billions of dollars be saved if drugs were legalized, but the black market would be reduced, and tax revenues from the sale of previously illicit drugs would be substantial" (Debate, 4). ... Ant-drug laws have unfairly targeted minority groups. "Historical evidence suggests that the anti-Mexica...

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• Grade Level: High School

The drug market diminishes the standard morals and ethics of a society with the beneficiaries being crime syndicates and drug dealers. ... The first American drug policy targeted pharmacists and physicians. ... The American drug policy will continue to target the supply while offering little funding for rehabilitation, apparently there is such a thing as a drug-free society....

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The illicit drug market, pre-drug war, is estimated to be a hundred billion dollar a year business. ... (DEA/CDC) The misallocation of resources is totally exhausting and paralyzing the entire legal system that could be better targeted on a more productive agenda. ...

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Psychology is the scientific study of human and animal behavior. It is made of theories and tries to prove why we behave the way we do, our mental processes, our emotions, and our actions. In this writing assignment I will discuss why some people choose to behave so outrageous that we see it as abno...

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