Legalizing Drugs
Drugs: Good or Bad
Imagine a world where drugs are legal, walking down the street and seeing people on drugs everywhere. Where almost everyone is going into convenient stores buying crack, marijuana, or even heroin. What kind of world would this be, to see junkies on the side of the road and it is perfectly legal. To see more crime than ever before from people who are trying to steal, kill, and rob just to get a fix. Believe it or not, but at one point all drugs were legal. People walked around taking acid and smoking marijuana. According to the website addictions.org there was a bill passed in 1970 called The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. This is when the first thought of scheduling drugs …show more content…
Marijuana is not the only drug that people would kill or steal for. A good example would be the Columbian Cartel. They are known for the distribution of cocaine. So the legalization of marijuana would not affect any if at all crime on American streets. Drug organizations would focus on other drugs and still kill innocent people over nothing but drugs. The American people would have to pay for it, in taxes and American lives lost every day to drugs. On top of that marijuana would be legal, so people would have to suffer knowing that others are wasting their lives away on a drug that might only benefit the people who really need …show more content…
Marijuana has been somewhat proven to provide medical benefits to certain people. Other drugs such as ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and LSD were all created to serve a medical purpose. Marijuana is a schedule one drug along with the others I just mentioned. Schedule one is proven to make people addicted to them. So if marijuana was to be legalized then why not the others, they have medical benefits. According to a book called "Buzzed: The Straight facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy," ecstasy was created in 1912 and used in psychotherapy; it was used to help patients have a moment of openness for insight and mutual understanding. Ecstasy serves a medical benefit so why not make it legal also? Questions like this will pop up everyday in Congress if marijuana is legalized. It would be a bad thing for
Imagine a world where drugs are legal, walking down the street and seeing people on drugs everywhere. Where almost everyone is going into convenient stores buying crack, marijuana, or even heroin. What kind of world would this be, to see junkies on the side of the road and it is perfectly legal. To see more crime than ever before from people who are trying to steal, kill, and rob just to get a fix. Believe it or not, but at one point all drugs were legal. People walked around taking acid and smoking marijuana. According to the website addictions.org there was a bill passed in 1970 called The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. This is when the first thought of scheduling drugs …show more content…
Marijuana is not the only drug that people would kill or steal for. A good example would be the Columbian Cartel. They are known for the distribution of cocaine. So the legalization of marijuana would not affect any if at all crime on American streets. Drug organizations would focus on other drugs and still kill innocent people over nothing but drugs. The American people would have to pay for it, in taxes and American lives lost every day to drugs. On top of that marijuana would be legal, so people would have to suffer knowing that others are wasting their lives away on a drug that might only benefit the people who really need …show more content…
Marijuana has been somewhat proven to provide medical benefits to certain people. Other drugs such as ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and LSD were all created to serve a medical purpose. Marijuana is a schedule one drug along with the others I just mentioned. Schedule one is proven to make people addicted to them. So if marijuana was to be legalized then why not the others, they have medical benefits. According to a book called "Buzzed: The Straight facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy," ecstasy was created in 1912 and used in psychotherapy; it was used to help patients have a moment of openness for insight and mutual understanding. Ecstasy serves a medical benefit so why not make it legal also? Questions like this will pop up everyday in Congress if marijuana is legalized. It would be a bad thing for