Punitive Drug Prohibition

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In contrast to the United States, many countries around the world are now using harm reduction instead of drug prohibition and are facing the facts that drug prohibition will not make drug use go away. This paper discusses drug prohibition in the United States, and in the rest of the world where cannabis can be found in many cafes. It compares drug polices and concludes which policy would best help the drug situation in the United States. It also assesses the economic affects of punitive drug prohibition. Section 2 of the paper contains a literature review and presents a hypothesis based on available research. It also formulates dependent and independent variables that are required to test the hypothesis, as well as the type of methodology that will be used to conduct the study. Section 3 discusses the limitations of the proposed study and makes recommendations for additional research.

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"Drug courts that originated in 1989 are the United States' attempt to liberalize its drug policy. However, court-mandated, drug-free treatment programs often do not produce drug-free people; the many defendants who fail to stop using drugs are usually sent to prison. In fact, many offenders that go to a drug court actually do more time than if they had gone through a traditional criminal court. Despite drug courts, the United States is still imprisoning a higher percentage of its population for petty drug crimes than any nation on earth: currently almost 500,000 out of America's two million prisoners. "The drug court system is punishment and correction masquerading as medical care; it is the illusion of benevolence." "

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