salaries can not compare to the huge profits associated with dealing. Failing to acquire job skills at an early age, they run the risk of never finding a real job and living off welfare their entire lives. In a lower-class area, the drug dealers are seen as the center of the community.
They become role models for the children, replacing their parents. Eliminating the drug dealer will force these young children into the reality that education is the way out of the ghetto-not selling drugs.
Prohibition laws cannot be effectively enforced. In a free society, if people want a product, they will be able to find a way to get it, whether or not it is legal. "No matter how many Americans are arrested for drug use, no matter how many pushers are put in jail, the War on Drugs cannot succeed. Look at any major American prison with its human cages, iron gates, armed guards, and
continual surveillance. Drugs are still readily available in prison. If brutal repression cannot keep drugs out of our prisons, then turning
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