How big is the illegal drug use in todays youth?
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much bigger than i like .. too many kids are getting hooked
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Not that I'm aware.  Just curious, though:  What illegal drugs do you think we would be exporting?
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Younger people seem to use earlier than twenty years ago . Now , childhood is short lived for many . Dating sooner , having babies sooner ,etc... I don't believe because you haven't at a certain age you won't / will . Drugs have no care of who allows them in . They don't care who they hurt or kill .They don't care about income , age , race . They just know once they be friend someone , they aren't forgotten ! Even if the user quits the user will remember ! Unless the drug took that piece first !
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I think pot usage was wider spread back then before the government dug in with all the anti-drug campaigning and subsidies to law enforcement.  The taboo of it has been softened too.  Coke was off the hook back then, really just getting started...but I don't think it's any worse than today, considering how strong the growing darker forces of the Columbian Drug Cartel have become.  So, all-in-all, the same...basing that on information from the media and the occasional creepy book or two covering the subject from Barnes & Noble....
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Do you know a lot of "little children" who do heroin?
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not very. thats why we get good drugs in america.
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That's what I've been saying for years.  When kids try mary jane for the first time they find out that their parents and their school is full of crap and that it isn't as bad as they were told.  So, of course they suspect they are being lied to about other things as well.  All the war on drugs does is breed mistrust among the younger generation.  It has had no appreciable effect on drug use whatsoever.
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drugs are the worst thing that can and does distroy all aspects of life. they are the cause of most crime from petty to top of the tree. you only have to have known somebody who has or is drug dependant to understand what i mean. as for culture, sadly it has become trendy to take drugs. all dealers should be hung because they are the destroyers of social collapse
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drug addict teenagers are into society
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Well the amount of money in taxes would certainly be a major factor....it's also arguable that crime on one hand would be significantly reduced for obvious reasons (decriminalisation) but then again would there be an increase in users and therefore crime related to obtaining money for these drugs?? Many criminal gangs working in the drug industry would be put out of business and a lot of profits from this activity funds other crimes such as people trafficking. A combination of selling certain drugs through licenced premises and a liberalisation of trade barriers for certain substances could actually benefit certain drug production for some of the world's poorest people.\n     It has been proved with the lowering of cannabis to grade C that usage has actually dropped....maybe an effect of making it less desirable as it doesn't carry the same position in youngsters minds (demand dropping when level of legality falls). Check out New Scientist Magazine for figures.\n    How would nation/ health care react  ...probably extremely negatively and in many cases for good reasons. Could it work? well for such a complicated matter with so many issues it would require a huge cost/benefit analysis and to implement such a system i would imagine is too expensive monetarily speaking. Read a bit of "Mr.Nice" for info on drug trafficking industry and ideas advocating this theory.
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I don't think there is much drug use in the upper and middle classes of India, but there is a huge drug problem since half of the population lives in poverty. Apparently hashish and homemade brews of pot and stuff are available everywhere...\n\n  Perhaps you are also thinking of Iran where believe or not about a quarter of the population is addicted to herione.
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x.x A better question might've been 'What drugs do children in Middle and High School not use?' Because, I know some students at my school have gone as far as Germany to get drugs.
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Drug or Alcoholic use on school foundation and or grounds.
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You have a valid argument. (And I am not in favour of drugs, to make that quite clear.) There are many bad substances that are legal, and others are not. It is all down to political blindness, or at best tunnel vision.\nIf the now illegal drugs would be legalised, the criminal element attached to them would fall by the wayside. Just as it did in 1933 after the prohibition of alcohol was lifted. Never has there been more alcohol consumed in the USA (for very high prices) as during the prohibition years. That should tell us.\nUnfortunately our politicians never learn anything from History.
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Yes its still around... just not as much as its not as desirable anymore and for the 2 arrests made in 2000.\n\nbut to the people who say make your own... thats not really possible unless your an university trained oganic chemist with atleast 10 grand in lab equipment. Thats one of the reasons why LSD is harder to find, becuase its harder to get somone to make it. its not your standard meth lab set up that 2 black guys can do in a bath tub.\n\nanyways lately ive only seen it in liquid form, the main supplyer for United states is probly putting it in liquid and not blotter.
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http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf\n\nHomeland Security Report - Page 7:\n\nIn 2005 the government estimates the following crossed our Southern Boarder:\n\n5.6 to 11.2 million pounds of cocaine.\n\n34.3 to 68.6 million pound of marijuana.\n\n*********************************\n\nFederal Drug "Seizures" on our  Southern Boarder in Fiscal Year 2005:\n\n1,129,275 pounds of cocaine.\n6,866,465 pounds of marijuana\n     16,790 pounds of methamphetamine.\n\n\nAccording to the National Drug Intelligence Center, THE cartels are “the predominant smugglers, transporters, and wholesale distributors of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin in the United States” and “are expanding their control over the distribution of these drugs in areas long controlled by Colombian and Dominican criminal groups, including areas of New York and Florida.”
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The war on drugs is nowhere near over.  I was watching on the news a while back that after the tougher laws passed in Iowa reguarding the sales of certain ingredients in meth, that meth lab siezures had gone down a dramatic amount.  However, I still see people using every bit as much as before.  In my opinion, the law enforcement officials have not been working hard enough, and therefore cite the new law for less busts being made.