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Drugs and Poverty
In the United States today, one of the most overlooked aspect that would decrease poverty would be drug laws pertaining to the criminalization of drugs and the incarceration of users. Before discussing how to change these laws, it must be made clear that the focus of this argument is not the people who use drugs and their role in society; but rather, how the government chooses to deal with these people. The United States has a system plagued by inefficiencies of antiquated laws as well as bureaucratic tape. The two problems are embodied in the systems that regulate current drug laws as well as drug education. In order to fix these problems and ameliorate poverty, the United States must rewrite current drug laws pertaining to marijuana as well as rewrite the curriculum pertaining to drug education programs. If the United States acts accordingly, then the level of poverty in the United States will greatly decrease.
Before discussing how we should rewrite......

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