The Drugs Crime Connection

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The Drugs Crime Connection?

• What is the connection between the use of
• psychoactive substances and criminal behavior?

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What Drug?
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What Crime Type?
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Psychopharmacological Connection
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The Economic Compulsive Connection
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The Systemic Connection
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Alcohol Psychopharmacological
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Alcohol Economic-Compulsive
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Alcohol Systemic
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Marijuana Psychopharmacological
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Marijuana Economic Compulsive
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Marijuana Systemic
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Cocaine Psychopharmacological
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Cocaine Economic Compulsive
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Cocaine Systemic
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• Criminalizing psychoactive substances increases
  their crime, social and medical costs.
• Legal psychoactive substance already do a lot
  (more than illegal substances) of medical and
  social damage.
• Decriminalizing popular psychoactive substances
  will increase the number of people who regularly
  use them.