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Are You Worried About Drug Related Crime Today?

What Americans worry most about today is public safety. They fear what illegal drugs are doing to our country. We hear of more crime and violence today than ever before, and most often than not drugs are involved. We hear of innocent children being killed because they got in the crossfire of drug dealers and gangs. We hear news of young teens being shot or stabbed to death because they have gotten caught up in gangs which are always participating in illegal drug activity. Our country has turned into one where people are in danger just going about their daily errands and activities. All the robberies that take place now are most of the time someone who is trying to get money for drugs. There are more home invasions now, all because of drugs. We are absolutely losing this so called "war on drugs."

There Are Many Ways Drugs Are Related to Crime

Drugs are related to crime in many ways. It is a crime to use, possess, manufacture, or distribute drugs that have a potential for abuse. Drug (Read More....)

Happiness Is An Effective Crime Deterrent

A new study has revealed that happiness is an effective crime deterrent for adolescents. The report was co-authored by University of California - Davis sociology professor Bill McCarthy and UC Davis post-doctoral research Teresa Casey. In the report, "Get Happy! Positive Emotion, Depression and Juvenile Crime," the researchers found that adolescents who expressed happiness and well-being were significantly less likely to commit crimes and use illegal drugs.

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health funded the study, the largest of its kind, to conduct a survey of 15,000 seventh-to-ninth grade students, from 1995 to 1996. Typically, much data about crime is found using an e-discovery tool, but in this case the survey asked the students to tell if they had committed non-violent crime, of which 29 percent indicated that they had at least once. 18 percent had used illegal drugs at least once.

The researchers then looked for correlations between the level of happiness the students expressed and their involvement in crimes and drug usage. They found that happier students (Read More....)

Marijuana, Cocaine and Heroin Legalized In Mexico

Mexico has decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Does anyone actually think this is going to reduce the massive drug violence in Mexico? Do you feel safer now? This stunning new law has established maximum "personal use" amounts for a large number of drugs that were previously illegal, including LSD and methamphetamine. For example, the legal limit of marijuana for "personal use" under the new Mexican law is 5 grams. According to experts, that is about enough for four "joints".

So now that addicts do not have to fear going to jail, is this going to help solve Mexico's drug problem or is it going to make it worse?

Are the drug gangs that are terrorizing northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. suddenly going to stop selling drugs?

Hardly.

If anything, this will make things worse, because now people in Mexico will not be afraid to buy drugs, so there will be more of a market.

As if the gang problem in the U.S. and Mexico was not bad enough already.

U.S. authorities claim that there are now over 1 million members of criminal gangs inside the United States. According to federal statistics, (Read More....)

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