Original sentence: Drugs are also related to crime through the effects they have on the user's behavior and by generating violence and other illegal activity in connection with drug trafficking.Illegal drugs are related to crime in multiple ways.Most directly, it is a crime to use, possess, manufacture, or distribute drugs classified as having a potential for abuse (such as cocaine, heroin, morphine and amphetamines)
Edited sentence: (see the Lancet, June, 2006).And it is clear that drugs are quite often at the scene of criminal behavior.Bearing on this issue are controlled, ongoing experiments in Switzerland with thousands of long-term heroin addicts which demonstrated that even daily use of this powerful, addictive drug does not in and of itself lead to (and in fact, significantly decreased) violent and property crime.But there is sharp disagreement over the underlying causality involved—whether the use of these drugs causes crime or whether the circumstances of sale and use, the prohibition, causes crime.It is relatively uncontroversial that illegal drugs carry manifest dangers to the users.Others say that most “drug-related” crimes are in fact economic crimes, committed either by addicts supporting an unaffordable addiction or by drug dealers/cartels protecting market share without legal recourse, as was the case during the “Lawless Years” of alcohol prohibition.Proponents of the prevailing view that illegal drugs cause crime cite the frequency of drug possession among people caught committing crimes as proof of this link