Marijuana prohibition has led to larger percentage of organized crime and gang violence. ... With the criminalizing of marijuana the prison systems has been clogged with hundreds of thousands of people for doing a victimless crime. ... If marijuana was legalized crime rate will decrease. Current marijuana laws now do the opposite of lowering crime rates. ... It is a case of history repeating from the alcohol prohibition days when organized crime got its funds from the selling of alcohol. ...

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Since everybody has their own personal reasons why they do such a thing as use and abuse drugs, it makes even more difficult to prevent such a crime. ... With the idea of Beccaria that it is better to prevent crimes than to punish them, the government should stop the drug trafficking into the United States, so that there will be no drugs available to the user. ... We tend to think that drug users are the victims of the drugs that they take, but it is a victimless crime, because nether the seller nor the user is likely to report the crime to the police. Drug use is a real crime that injures b...

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