America's Dependency on Drugs

             The world with drugs is one of the biggest issues today. The government needs to find ways to stop drug use in our country even if it is probably the hardest thing to do. When an individual is caught with drugs, or being under the influence he/she gets thrown in jail for about a year, and if the crime is more intense then the individual gets more of a punishment. The inmates get to shower, eat, work out, play sports and receive visitors.
             The people in jail have too many rights and get away with too much.
             People who drink and drive should be delt harsh with and an extremely hard punishment should be given. A year in prison does not do anything, because in a year he/she will be out and they will do the same thing over again. It is really sad to see someone lose their life because of an ignorant person killing them while being under the influence. People always say "I know what I'm doing when I drink", "I know my limit" and in most cases that is not true. In the Philadelphia Inquire it says that there are 90,000 alcohol deaths per year. That is an extreme amount of individuals dying per year because of alcohol.
             A big issue is if drugs should be legalized or not, William Bennet a current leader of America's "war on drugs" says:
             It's essential that we win. This stuff is destroying the lives of millions of Americans, and it virtually eliminating the possibility of upward mobility for an awful lot of people. These are American citizens, and they're dying, they're shooting each other. Whatever we may think of their merit as individuals, they are part of us. (310)
             Critics think that his fight against drugs is flawed, fatalistic, hopeless, and bankrupt.
             Every time somebody tries to do a good deed for the country, you have the ignorant people saying it's a waste of time and no good. Most of t
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