Argument to Legalize Drugs
By: Lance Winslow
We have often heard of the on-going debate in our civilization to legalize drugs and we probably will for some time to come. Drugs are a huge problem in our society, as it causes healthcare issues, crime problems and of course teenage wastelands. Recently this problem was taken up by an online think tank and a think tanker stated:
“The largest problems for abusers is their methods of obtaining the drugs, their associations with people operating in black markets and doing illegal things, their inability to be sure of the quality of what they’re getting, the financial toll of losing jobs and being unable to make appointments due to inability to find drugs, and their lack of social support to quit.”
Indeed these are all huge problems and they are definitely things to take into consideration; Yet, is the legalization of all drugs really the answer? One fellow think tanker responded to this statement and challenged the legalization of drugs and stated:
“You seem to be saying that the drugs are not the problem the laws are? Yet the drugs are the problem and these newest drugs of the current decade are killing people’s bodies like never before and thus causing early age heart attacks and increasing, perhaps even bankrupting our health care system in the future? You want to make all this legal?”
But that was not the only condemnation of drugs or comment against the legalization of such, as another comment further illustrated some additional issues, which would not be solved by legalizing these harmful substances:
“Fine [legalize drugs] , but I want a tattooed forehead of anyone who does drugs so I can stay away from them, not hire them or trust them to do what they say they will do or screw up a task, because they do not think right? Sure there are some who do recreational drugs who are not of that problematic grouping of druggie losers in denial, however it is not worth my risk to deal with any of them. Drugs are bad news and you know it.”
It seems that this issue has clearly divided many a group and threatens to divide a fraction of our society too. What are we to ever do about the growing drug problem in the United States? Do you have any ideas or solutions to this divisive issue? If so, let’s here them and if not then do think on this in 2006.
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