The lifestyles of street youth involve many high risk behaviours including high levels of licit and illicit drug use and needle sharing.
Prostitutes are regulated by a patchwork of both state and local laws that address a number of different areas.
Even if the Single Convention, 1961 requires that possession of cannabis be made an offence, it still allows the Parties latitude as to the sanctions or penalties they impose.
The rise in violence also results in increases to police spending and the size of drug-related forces.