Drug war

Because alcohol is managed by the government and marijuana is managed by illegal drug distributors who do not require ID, it is a veto-conspiring appointment judge of this huge and massive conservative Orange County (Dickinson) Jim Gray said.

Since starting "drug warfare" in 1971, Richard Nixon had many policy debates concerning narcotics punishment, treatment, prevention, fines (which can only impose fines) and handling of legalization. Over the past few decades, more severe penalties were enforced, while government spending on these individual imprisonment was also.

The United States is now known as the world's largest pharmaceutical market despite the withdrawal drug management policy. Many of cocaine and heroin flowing through the United States are from foreign countries, but amphetamine accompanying LSD and ecstasy is produced in the United States, but at least one-third of what is consumed by marijuana problem in California, Mexico, In the years the production of the US suddenly increased in response to the caught by foreign suppliers.In concrete terms, California State and Hawaii State utilize policy of foreign medicine for marijuana And produced many farms.When their work was forced, producers just started to transfer production to scattered areas and indoors.

Cannabis as a cash crop has great value for farmers than cigarettes, cotton, which is the largest income crop in many states. In the wholesale market, corn, soybeans and hay only are more profitable cash crops, as marijuana growers are estimated at $ 15.1 billion. From wholesale level, drug trading is one of only a few kinds of paid employment available to young people in poor urban areas. What is not well-known is that the majority of national drug production is in the country's poorest countries. In parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, marijuana is "a cigarette as the largest cast crop, beyond the cigarette as the largest cast crop, it is a fundamental element of the local economy," US government officials say. The number of employees is small ". This can be seen with the unemployment rate by region. Usually, the price is 2-6% higher than California or the US (profile).

If drug reform is really needed, how far should you take it? The illicic drug, which has been the subject of discussion in the past like MDMA, is one medicine (recently) promoting policy reform. Discussions are no longer made around the marijuana harp, just as in the past. Steven Keiths said Cannabis is "associated with acute effects including accidents by automobiles and machinery and acute side effects," hemp is associated with cognitive impairment and psychosis, but in the long term, the British Police Federation "Runciman Report" concluded that both alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than cannabis, but was not asked to regulate its use.

One argument that many opponents evoke the justification of the ban on marijuana was the increase in effectiveness over time and the idea that it is "gateway medicine". In a long study (such as the Science and Technology Committee held at the UK House Science and Technology Committee), there is no evidence to support this theory and it is pointed out that most marijuana users will not migrate to more harmful drugs doing. It was pointed out that alcohol and tobacco are strong evidence that TSTC is a gateway drug. Regarding the issue of efficacy, this is probably due to the illegal status of the drug. Bootsgger can say much of the growth and sales of marijuana at the present age in order to increase the potency and quantity of alcohol in beer and alcohol during the alcohol ban.

So, what options are on the table to address this issue dealing with "drug war" (which is not covered by the emperor of the new drug) and marijuana ban? Health education has proven to be quite annoying as many commercials, advertisements, and general announcements have been made from the dangers of drugs over the past 40 years. All this just keeps rising through this usage. A comparative study of the United States, Australia, Canada, and three European countries showed that marijuana consumption is not affected by law enforcement expenditure. Much money is invested in marijuana user imprisonment, so money is essentially removed for user's treatment, research and prevention. It may seem like the easiest way, but economically speaking it does not have a significant impact on government expenditure expenditure.

When marijuana looks overseas towards the Netherlands which was criminalized 25 years ago, the amount used is considerably below the United States. Liberalization of the law on marijuana in the UK resulted in a decrease in the arrest of cannabis use, becoming a third of the following year and saving 199,000 hours of police hours without increasing the use of cannabis. Public policy seems to have little impact on consumption in fact. Utilization rate is low in liberal countries, high usage rate in prohibited countries (Kisely).

The cost of this "war" is beyond the financial side. Career is destroyed and income is lost. Telling that you are making illegal citizens who comply with the law to use marijuana can cause criminal acts economically and mentally and may lead to tough results. Because many people are around the poor, criminal punishment is very difficult to deal with.

Smoking in tobacco is decreasing in high income countries. Taking Canada as an example, smoking cessation strategies are based on demand rather than supply, interventions favorable to marijuana users, tax increases, health education, restrictions on smoking in workplaces and public places, advertisement banning, better access to treatment . However, when the supply initiative is directed to cigarettes, restricting production has hardly been successful and cigarette bans are not an option.

The best approach that can be taken with marijuana should be similar to that of tobacco and alcohol. As long as it is legalized, as it is done with alcohol, while legislation should be strengthened around the driving of vehicles and machinery, it is assumed that it has not been punished It is possible that these choices could be like coffee shop models that earn money in the Netherlands, or something like a small amount of home growing. As for the problem, there is no doubt that more research is necessary, but it is certainly possible to evaluate that change is necessary (Kisely).

The beginning of the Obama era has changed rapidly towards rationality. A newly appointed veterinarian, Gil Kerikovsky, who has no longer attacked California medical marijuana clinic (similar to the Bush administration) declared in May a "drug war" was concluded. Senator Jim Webb and Arnold Schwarzenegger have started discussing the merits of legalizing and taxing marijuana. Governor David Paterson in New York abolished Rockefeller's law (which was enacted in 1973 with the surge of property crime at the time of the New York heroin epidemic), "35 year bad policy" he said. These laws were changed from public health to punishment and obliged to possess a small amount of chemicals comparable to secondary murder. Under Paterson 's new reform, there is still room in the text to learn repetitive offenders for rehabilitation rather than prisons. The state is currently establishing a system of drug courts and treatment programs using federal stimulus money. New York authorities believe states will save $ 250 million in prison charges. "We are replacing imprisonment for treatment," Gov Paterson (Dickinson) said.

For Jim Webb (D Virginia), it seems to be a problem of imprisonment. "Although imprisoned drug offenders have jumped by 1200% since 1980, the illegal drug industry and drug flow has not yet declined," he says. For Schwarzenegger, it was a cost crisis. California's economy is as rough as the past few years, bills are submitted to the California State legislature, legislating cannabis and imposing taxes, resulting in annual incomes of more than $ 1 billion. This will help balance the state budget. For Terry Goddard (Arizona State Attorney General) it is a matter of violence. With all the deaths and bloodsheds that cross the boundary between Tijuana and other towns, legalization believes that 65% of illegal income will take away the Mexican cartel. "Most of Mexican genocide is funded for the benefit of marijuana," he told reporters in April. In May this year Zogby opinion poll said that 52% of the first Americans who had so far presented three philosophies support Derriminning Marijuana (Dickinson).

Many reformist advocates cheered when Gil Kerikovsky was appointed as a drug emperor. As Seattle 's police chief, he respects the city law which makes the possession of marijuana the highest priority of law enforcement agencies, and permits fines by attending citizen' s annual "hem fest".

Kerlikowske is clear in one thing: the discussion of legalization of marijuana is out of the table. "It is not in the President's agenda in any case" he says "I am certainly not mine." When asked about the termination statement of drug war, he argues that he uses the word "war" to restrict his tool to deal with that problem. His plan incorporates a cost-effective program for prevention and treatment of substance abuse, a balanced, scientifically strict, innovative approach to reducing US drug consumption and global drug trends,

Looking at the presidential budget for 2010, it is clear that it can double the drug court's diversion of non-violent offenders from prison to treatment and provide $ 30 million for drug addiction treatment Became a criminal who returned to the community. Please put in this account half of 1% of ONDCP's $ 15 billion budget.

Obama 's current drug management budget seems like the former Bush budget. Cut seems to get more financing than treatment, but educational funds and outreach programs to prevent drug use actually decrease. One example is the prospect of a campaign promising federal government funds to needle exchange programs to prevent HIV infection among heroin addicts.

Interestingly, it is also reported by a drug company. Under the Bush administration, he reported directly to the president. But under the Obama administration he reports directly to Joe Biden. As the top Democrat of the Senior Judiciary Committee of the 1980s Biden assisted the law requiring a "compulsory minimum" prison sentence for drug crimes, such as extensive punishment for crimes and cocaine-dealing crimes. If you have a 5 g crack on the $ 350 street, you will be fined a minimum of 5 cm. The same penalty as applied to people with a value of 37,000 dollars (Dickinson) at half a kilometer is applied for cocaine.

Many things are going on towards non-criminalization or legalization of marijuana, but it is clear to the people that change is necessary. Governor Schwarzenegger continues to encourage active discussion on this proposal, seeking a major investigation to consider all the benefits of legalization. He acknowledged that the probability that the problem will be decided in the ballot box is high. With the progress of rational thought that our country seems to be heading towards it, the government needs to involve more research and find a solution to the problem.

Quoted work

1. Kisely, S. "Case of Policy Reform in Cannabis Management" Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 53.12 (2008): 795-797. Health module, ProQuest Web. November 14, 2009

2. Kisely, S .. "Applying the lessons of tobacco and alcohol management to cannabis" Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 53.12 (2008): 799-799. Health module, ProQuest Web. November 14th.

3. Dickinson, T .. "The truth of drug war" Rolling Stone June 25, 2009: Research Library Core, ProQuest. web. November 14th.

4. "Profile: USA" NACLA report on the Americas 36.2 (2002): 17-17. International module, ProQuest. web. November 14, 2009

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