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....)

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....)