Drug Legalization
Eliot Marshall once said "The discovery and invention of substances that change the way we feel and behave are among man's special accomplishments". Man has been given the ability to alter a person's behavior, mood, health, thoughts, and perception. However, due to government restrictions this ability can't be used to it's potential by most people. I say most because it is possible to get theses substances and that's off the black market, since drugs are illegal. For the next few minutes I will discuss how it would be better to legalize all drugs starting the low death count, how it could help the economy, and lastly how we all use drugs sometimes. Why are drugs illegal in the first place? According to Compton's CD Rom the 1997 edition, "People who use drugs take them without medical approval and for recreational, not medical reasons." Similar to this is alcohol and tobacco. Alcohol is legal and people consume that for recreation reasons rather than medical. Same with tobacco, however tobacco is the leading cause of death in America and it isn't in any way considered medically helpful. To give you an idea, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that more than 300,000 American's a year, die, prematurel
What makes it so much? With a total of 61% of all inmates being due to drugs that answer becomes clear. Drug prohibition is a losing battle and they need to be legalized. This is the same thing as marijuana. By legalizing them they could help our economic position, prevent families from being parted, and allow teenagers to live a full life of prosperity without peole always looking down on them. Maybe then the budget deficit wouldn't be at an all time high. That amounts to 8% of all international trade and is comparable to the annual turnover in textiles. 5 Billion dollars all together on the drug war. The second portion of the economic view is the prison housing. Now that you know the death rate with drugs and how low it is, I will now discuss the economic side of the situation. According to Compton's CD Rom, "cocaine was prescribed as an anesthetic and a painkiller before the government got involved". If that money was contributed to our economy then the government could tax it and use the money for better school, parks, homeless shelters, and military uses. That number is greater than the number of people that die from cocaine, heroin and marijuana all added together. The United States can try to fight drugs but no matter what they will always be around, because the people will always find a way. People are constantly saying that the only reason there is such a low number of deaths due to drugs is because the fact that they are illegal, if they were to legalize them, then the number will infinitely increase. Think of the alcohol prohibition in the 1920's.
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