Drugs are illegal if the government has included them their laws on controlled substances. Many drugs are only illegal if you do not have a valid prescription from the doctor for them.
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Drug abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drug abuse has a huge range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. All of these definitions imply a negative j...
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Illegal drug trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The illegal drug trade is a global black market consisting of the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of illegal controlled drugs. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license...
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Answer to the question: Why are drugs illegal? ... The foundation of our policies toward drugs has been that they should be illegal, and that the public was protected from their dangers by keeping them so.
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The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.; Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy;
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AET ; Amphetamine; Alcohol ; Anabolic Steroids ; Anoretic Drugs; Barbiturates; Benzodiazepines ; Butorphanol; Buprenorphin; Bufotenine; Chloral Hydrate ; Coca Leaf; Cocaine; Codeine; Crack Cocaine ; Depressants; Dextropropoxyphene; DET ; DOB ; DOM; DXM; Ecstasy ; ... Date Rape ; Club Drugs ; Dietary Supplements...
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Organised crime, as "The Godfather" movies told us several decades ago, is virtually coterminous with the importation of illegal drugs. And the Mafia have long been in debt ... All of which makes it even more imperative that we somehow persuade the Blair Government to get on with the legalisation of cannabis, and other drugs,
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Why beer is good and the illegal drugs are bad - from Anheuser Busch. ... Crack, cocaine and heroin are produced by a totally-unregulated industry that pays no taxes and makes no positive contribution to society or our economy.
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Neighboring Peru is both a source of cocaine and a transit country for illegal drugs.  Anecdotal evidence suggests that Peru is experiencing a rise in opium poppy cultivation, and the State Department warns that "dense coca cultivation is increasing in new areas outside the traditional source zones" within Peru.
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Why Are Illegal Drugs Dangerous? ... Hallucinogen (say: huh-loo-sun-uh-jun) — A hallucinogen is a drug, such as LSD, that changes a person's mood and makes him or her see, hear, or think things that aren't really there.
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