Legalizing drugs
Unleashing a Weed of Mass Destruction on AmericaWhile scanning through a newspaper, I came across a depressing article about a teenage girl who was found dead in her apartment because of a drug overdose. Also found in her dingy apartment was a baby girl. The article went on to say that she was a prostitute who sold herself to pay for her drug habit. The baby girl was given to child services, because nobody else wanted her, she was orphaned at 3 months and HIV positive. She had contracted it from her HIV positive-drug addicted-prostitute mother. The teenage girl had not only destroyed her own life, but the life of an innocent child. Incidents such as these show how drug abusers not only affect their own lives, but also the lives of relatives and complete strangers who may fall victim to their crimes. In light of this, the recent Controlled Drugs and Substances Act passed by the Canadian government to decriminalize the possession of 15 grams of marijuana or 1 gram of hash has incensed not only the White House, but numerous parents of teenagers across America who may cross the border to take advantage of the lax drug laws. The Canadian government made the decision because they felt it was futile to waste state resources unneces
sarily arresting small time offenders that only ended up crowding prisons, instead, they will now invest that time and energy in pursuing 'bigger fish'. Deaths in the United States from alcohol were estimated at about 125,000 per year. It is possible to evaluate how legalization of drugs in the United States will work by evaluating what happened when others took that route, there have, not surprisingly been very few. It can be assumed from this that legalizing drugs would attract more drug users and health costs would skyrocket. While researching, the 'Dutch example' is something I kept coming across, pro-drug-decriminalization activists kept citing this example but failed to elaborate what it was all about, besides it being a country where the purchase and sale of drugs in coffee houses is legal. This property of drugs has been exploited by people who support legalization as they argue it will make drugs more accessible to those who need them. After further research I found that the famous Dutch example isn't all its cracked up to be. "Prohibition of alcohol failed in the '20, much like prohibition of drugs is failing today" this is a mantra of those looking to legalize drugs and others who feel America is in the same predicament today. Also, the pro-drug legalization lobby seems to have left a few expenses out of the equation. Besides the social consequences, any medical journal can testify that drugs have serious short-term and long-term health repercussions. I will admit that the master plan on 'How to deal with drugs" needs serious reevaluation, however as I have stated above legalization is not the answer. Besides, it seems rather ludicrous to go down a route that others have gone down before and miserably failed. Moreover '20 America was a very different place. Currently, American drug laws are extremely stringent and for various reasons, the pro-drug legalization/ decimalization lobby want the use, sale, import, trafficking and production of drugs such as marijuana, weed, cannabis and more lethal drugs such as heroin and cocaine to be made legitimate and people found taking them to be able to do so without fear of getting a criminal record and prosecution.
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