How much money is circulating through the U.S. now?\nHow much of that money, or what percentage, is used on drugs from the government and the citizens?
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Drugs can get you thru times of no money better then money can get you thru times of no drugs.
339269
As one of my finance professors so clearly stated it... "In God We Trust".  It is on every piece of paper and coin in the US.  There is no backing or "gold standard" of the almighty dollar anymore.  It is really just a highly accepted form of trade for a common tool for bartering.
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The current drug laws really don't make sense and your idea has merit. There are always going to be drug users. Decrimiinalization will not make more drug users. It will reduce petty crime and strike a serious blow to organized crime.\n\nUnfortunately, it would also make tens of thousands of government employees useless. They would have nothing to do and their bosses would lose their little empires. We can't have that, now can we? After all, it's only taxpayer funds they are wasting on a lost cause.
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There is no way of knowing how many people are on prescription drugs.  That's like asking how many people drink water.  Doctors don't report to any agency about prescribing drugs.  Pharmacy's don't report the sale of drugs.  Your question can't be answered.
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That's how my drug use started along time ago, all I did was smoke a joint. However that led to using anything I could get my hands on. My therapist gave me an assignment on how much money did I spend using drugs? I figured out if was approx. $120,000 over a 20 year period. I could have had a big house and a awesome car all paid for!!!!!!!!! Think about it. hope u make the right choice. good luck and God Bless You.
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I don't think it's fair at all! Even though I don't use either substance, I agree with you 100%. I think at the moment it's a control issue for the Government. If they legalized it right now, they still couldn't keep up with it all because so much is being grown nation wide and there is so much is on the streets. I think they should open up the market for everything. The recreational user will still be the recreational user and the addicts will still be addicts. What does the Government have to loose? Nothing the way I see it, because they will see a new tax base and there will also be plenty of new experimenters turned recreational users. We don't need Uncle Sam telling us what to do and what not to do....especially in the privacy of our own homes!
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I think this country has gone over the edge as far as helping others.  My tax dollars go to pay for other peoples education and when I need money there is none for me.  I knew someone who got flown in from a different country to have heart surgery completely free of charge.  Would anyone in this country who works and pays takes get that for free ?? Hell no.  My own grandmother got money from the govt for being old.  She had never worked a day in this country.  I think those things are wrong.  The people who live here and pay taxes dont get as much as people from other countries do.
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In 1939 a political party (to be identified later) funded by Unions and mobsters, had to replace the income lost with the end of prohibition. Devious! A natural product that cost virtually nothing to produce multiplies in value a thousand fold. Mobsters see unions, are back in business, with this prohibition the government has made a new class of criminal to exploit and profit from. And industries competing with hemp by products profiting as well, the only true victim were, then and are now…The Citizen. As a side note in 1900 that same political party claimed another natural plant made the “blacks” unruly and UN manageable…and they outlawed cocaine. Isn’t it interesting how those same political “families” still in politics today, made their family money as bootleggers and drug runners? If that makes you think of Kennedy’s and the Democratic Party you would be correct on both counts.
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Unfortunately the drup companies & our government are "in bed together".  Drug companies are some of the biggest lobbyists in our country.  Right now it seems to be a no win situation but we have to keep our voices LOUD!!
12706
For both of you, the Government is NOT here to hold your hand!  Otherwise we would live in a socialist country, which you can if you wish.  Not one person I can think of is a bloodthirsty soldier death wanter, except the "left" to USE as ammunition for their own gains!  Two TRILLION??? Back that up!  I am SURE we spend that much and more on Medicare, Medicade, Social Security, and Welfare.  Are they working??!!
69204
The USA is a 4th World Country with controlling the majority of Gold heald and the largest stock market in the world. 80% of all control happens from the USA.
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Pancah let me give you some numbers\n\n*$136 billion dollars worth US jobs are send to different countries and still corporations getting tax cuts\n*Human Trffcking is a billion dollar business acrcoss US- Mexico border. These dollars are not taxable.\n*Govt cost towards illegal immigrants $7.2 Billion/per yer\n*Economy gains $20 Billion/per year from illegal immigrants\n\nSo i can only show the gain.
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None. You can use Western Union or just a bank transfer. What the Government is interested in is that you earned it legitimately and not that you used illegal means such as drugs.
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Me 2 What star said is correct!! We are on a slippery slope ! The government has been keeping track of us for a long time!Now they track our money [debit cards, credit cards] there is so little cash used these days they can and do track it also. Our phones our computers stroke for stroke!
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No and no, 99.9% of drug fund organized crime. So the money people spend on drugs can go towards people smuggling, prostitution and other crimes which take advantage of vulnerable people.\n\nAnother worry with drugs is that very few drugs bought are 100% pure and are cut with other compounds. These can be anything your dealer wants or finds lying around. With horror stories such as Ajax (bleach in powder form) being used to cut cocaine, I really wouldn't want to put that up my nose!\n\nAfter briefly studying the effects of drugs during my chemistry degree. What I saw about the effects of drugs on various parts of the body put me off even thinking about taking any type of drug in my lifetime. Even 'harmless' weed has been shown to cause long term effect on the brain. Although weed has less tar in it than tobacco it still has tar in it which is not good for you at all.
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There you go Pussycat, you answered your own question. You gotta stop doing that, you're wasting 5 points. The governement could care less about the people coming over here, it's one less thing for them to worry about! If thier government themselves werent so far gone (drug wise) perhaps they'd have a reasonalbe person over there making correct decisions! the entire governement is made up of crack heads and greedy men! Do you think they care what happens to anyone other then themselves??
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What makes you think its not also happening elsewhere, like almost everywhere that weak people think they need prohibition? Between drug war funding and corruption ("Operation Lively Green") there's too much money available [locally, $300,000 to let one load across the border] to agenda driven police, drunk with political power and feeling invulnerable. In the zone near the Mexican Border with Arizona, it only sounds like a joke when we say we can trust the banditos and smugglers more than Border Patrol, to behave as expected. The criminals are no threat to citizens, but the criminal behaviors and abuse of ranchers and citizens by 'authorities' have done more to inspire us to call this zone the "Gunbelt". We have tried to clean up corruption, but both the smugglers and the corrupted are protected by the cowards we trusted to protect us. Its a fearful situation now being repeated in communities across America, as the "police" did nothing for years to stop the illegal invasion of millions across the border. Now the "bite" 'morditas' is on everyone. We are honest, but go nowhere unarmed;We joined a posse, and got deputized in a citizens police oversight team authorized to do whats needed, up to and including the use of deadly force. We surround the corrupt cops, not the other way around. Truth and dignity, if not justice, will prevail.