Should Drug Be Legalized?
Should Drugs Be Legalized?
Drugs are actually kind of brilliant products as they bring a lot of advantages to our society especially in medical area except when someone misuses them. Because of these abuses, certain drugs have been designated as illegal articles in lots of countries across the globe. Thus, we can see that in these recent decades, our society has involved in holy drug wars with the aim to strike against this disastrous drug abuses trend. However, a new phenomenon occurs when some people claim that we can only hold the stretch out of drug back by legalizing it. Thus, a number of arguments exist both uphold and subvert the legalization of drugs. The advocates of this statement assert that the legalization of cracks will surely decline the rate of drug related crimes besides of decreasing the number of drug addicts. Opponents of drug legalization affirm that the surrender of drug wars will only create new drug addicts and increase the rage of committing crimes. Though legalization of drugs may lead to some unexpectedly unfavorable consequences, it will lead us one step nearer to our main purpose, to kick drug abuses out of our world.
Drug legalization need to be executed because drug wars are of little avail. These drug wars have been spending too much citizen 's money with only a little pay back. Government should not continue wasting the money pointlessly with the hope that “we could actually hold drug use level or see it decline” (Johnson 283) one day in the future inasmuch as this money should be used to decrease the other crimes too for the benefits of all residents but not only for the junkies who actually embarrass the country. Though government claims that the drug wars work according to the increasing rates of captured people who relate to drug, we can see that the money spending on it increasing too. For instance, the federal government spend one billion dollar to arrest few hundred thousand people in late 1970s but nineteen billion dollar
Drugs are actually kind of brilliant products as they bring a lot of advantages to our society especially in medical area except when someone misuses them. Because of these abuses, certain drugs have been designated as illegal articles in lots of countries across the globe. Thus, we can see that in these recent decades, our society has involved in holy drug wars with the aim to strike against this disastrous drug abuses trend. However, a new phenomenon occurs when some people claim that we can only hold the stretch out of drug back by legalizing it. Thus, a number of arguments exist both uphold and subvert the legalization of drugs. The advocates of this statement assert that the legalization of cracks will surely decline the rate of drug related crimes besides of decreasing the number of drug addicts. Opponents of drug legalization affirm that the surrender of drug wars will only create new drug addicts and increase the rage of committing crimes. Though legalization of drugs may lead to some unexpectedly unfavorable consequences, it will lead us one step nearer to our main purpose, to kick drug abuses out of our world.
Drug legalization need to be executed because drug wars are of little avail. These drug wars have been spending too much citizen 's money with only a little pay back. Government should not continue wasting the money pointlessly with the hope that “we could actually hold drug use level or see it decline” (Johnson 283) one day in the future inasmuch as this money should be used to decrease the other crimes too for the benefits of all residents but not only for the junkies who actually embarrass the country. Though government claims that the drug wars work according to the increasing rates of captured people who relate to drug, we can see that the money spending on it increasing too. For instance, the federal government spend one billion dollar to arrest few hundred thousand people in late 1970s but nineteen billion dollar
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