Anti Drug Legislation Analysis

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Anti-Drug Legislation Analysis Steven Duden CJA/354 Criminal Law March 26, 2012 Gary Weil Anti-Drug Legislation Analysis Drugs can be problematic; however, some of the anti-drug legislation policies can at times be even more problematic. Critics of the these strong anti-drug legislation policies and laws comment that such tactics result in raids of homes, family dogs getting shot, children shot, and regular civilians who aim to protect his or her homes as the police is serving the search warrant on the wrong address. These critics also say that these strong-anti-drug laws don’t address the gangs, many of whom have a very sophisticated way of recruiting young juveniles to become drug dealers. Additionally, looking at crime statistics before and after Prohibition, these statistics indicate that there were more crimes during these laws against alcohol, after the restrictions were repealed (Benson, 2009). Economists who have studied these anti-drug policies criticize them by taking a stance that the ongoing effort continues to cost billions of dollars to tax payers while offering little results in terms of reduction of drug users. Such economists believe that some of the benefits of legalizing drugs would reduce crimes, lower the prices for drugs and decrease prostitution. In some cities, such as New York, city officials adopted an exchange needle program where it proved to reduce HIV cases in half. Unfortunately, such a program was opposed by the federal anti-drug czar (Cussen, M. & Block, W. 2000). Consequently, those who felt drugs should be legalized believe that by looking at other countries, such as Portugal and New Zealand who have legalized drugs, crime would decrease. These individuals feel that by collecting tax revenues from drug sales, taxes would go down, and it would reduce police corruption (Hughes, C. & Stevens, A., 2010) (McCaffrey,

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