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In Europe as of 2007, Sweden spends the second highest percentage of GDP, after the Netherlands, on drug control. [12] The UNODC argues that when Sweden reduced spending on education and rehabilitation in the 1990s in a context of higher youth unemployment and declining GDP growth, illicit drug use rose [13] but restoring expenditure from 2002 again sharply decreased drug use as student ...
Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v.Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that, under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Congress may criminalize the production and use of homegrown cannabis even if state law allows its use for medicinal purposes.
The Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment requires that incarcerated people be held in generally safe and hygienic conditions, and Sevcenko warned that the prison's ...
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about the legalization of marijuana and how it would affect our economy. Some numbers point to the reduction of government costs of prison ...
Other arguments point out that the funds saved from cannabis decriminalization could be used to enforce laws for other, more serious and violent crimes. [107] [112] In 1988, Michael Aldrich and Tod Mikuriya published "Savings in California Marijuana Law Enforcement Costs Attributable to the Moscone Act of 1976" in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.
John Gettman’s book “Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in the United States” estimates that, nationwide, the criminal justice system spent $7.65 billion in a single year ...
Nonetheless, in all states whether marijuana is legalized, decriminalized or illegal, Black people still are more likely of going to prison on marijuana charges, [98] proving that legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana alone will not change the disparity. Racial profiling among law enforcement is to blame for these disparities.
Here are three arguments against Issue 1 which would allow adults to legally use marijuana in Ohio.