The validation of medicine has been an issue in politics for a long time. Many people think that the validation of drugs will give the government more control and there will be less crime on the streets. Another issue is that the government will be able to profit money off the drugs and be able to control prices and what age you will have to be to be able to buy the drug.
On the issue of less crime on the streets I think that with the government controlling drugs there will be no drug dealers on the streets and no underage people using the drugs. This will lessen the crimes by minors and by students in our schools. People can also turn this issue around and compare the legalization to smoking and alcohol. Minors have found ways to buy beer and cigarettes so why wouldn?t they find ways to buy drugs that were legalized. With the government regulating the drug they can control how much is sold and how much can be consumed by the buyer.
It seems as if the cry of "legalize drugs!" is heard everywhere. Some argue that legalizing drugs is the way to "win" the drug war. Drug enforcement does place a burden on us. Economic resources are used up that could be used elsewhere. But the consequences of legalizing drugs would make an already large problem out of control. If one examines the arguments behind drug legalization, it becomes apparent that legalizing drugs won't solve any of our Nation's drug problems.
The main argument is: individuals have the right to do as they choose, provided it doesn?t harm anyone else. They choose to put the drugs inside their body, and have the right to make this choice. I understand this argument. Our government does limit individuals' rights with laws. But this argument has flaws.
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In my opinion we will never see the legalization of drugs. The government thinks that the legalization of drugs will cause chaos in the United States and throughout the world. If you think about it, who made each drug illegal? When did we decide that marijuana should be and illegal drug. Who knows our ancestors could have smoked weed when this country was first formed. I think that the legalization of drugs should happen. I have always believed that a lot of people go out and do things just because people say you shouldn?t do them. I believe that the legalization of drugs would cause the use of drugs to decline. People will not want to use the drug and they will not want to pay the high prices the government would put on them. There are many pros and cons you could bring up on the legalizing of drugs. I just hope I am around to see the control on drugs.
Drug use has been an ongoing problem in our country for decades. The use of drugs has been the topic of many political controversies throughout many years. There has been arguments that are for legalizing drugs and the benefits associated with legalization. Also, there are some who are opposed to legalizing drugs and fear that it will create more problems than solve them. Conservatives and liberals often have different opinions for controversial topics such as “the war on drugs,” but it is necessary to analyze both sides in order to gain a full understanding of their beliefs and to decide in a change in policy is in order.
The argument over drug reform and the current prohibition has been going on for years. It seems to be an argument between a wise parent and a young teenager, but as generations change more and more of the parents seem to switch sides. While prohibitionists say the mainstream drugs like cocaine, heroin, LSD, and marijuana are harmful and immoral, legalizers argue the opposite (Rachels 223). While they are both valid and interesting arguments the drugs named above still remain illegal. Many organizations and respected citizens have come to America’s attention in their support for drug reform or complete legalization of certain drugs. These people range from normal citizens who support the recreational use of marijuana to judges and ex- law enforcement agents who say the war on drugs has been a failure. The drug issue in the United States of America has been going on for years with the counterculture of the sixties up until the more recent medicinal marijuana debates today, and it seems that it is not going to go away anytime soon.
...ons of this issue provide were fully supported. I concluded that the anti-legalist hold a stronger argument than the legalist. Still, Drug legalization is an enduring question that presently faces our scholars.
The war on drugs and the violence that comes with it has always brought around a hot debate about drug legalization. The amount of violence that is associated with drugs is a result from harsher drug laws and prohibition.
Many feel today we are loosing the war on drugs. People consider legalization unnecessary. They feel that it will increase the amount of drug use throughout the world. They state that in many cases, drug users who have quit quit because of trouble with the law. Legalization would eliminate the legal forces that discourage the users from using or selling drugs. They also say that by making drugs legal, the people who have never tried drugs for fear of getting caught by the law will have no reason to be afraid anymore and will become users (Potter 1998).
The arguments that I have just laid out are not perfect and they have some apparent flaws that some philosophers would strongly disagree with, while there are other arguments that some of the great philosophers would agree with. I will critique the arguments that I have just laid out using the perspective of three different philosophers who all have their own ideas of how the state should function and the role of the citizen. The three philosophers that I will use in this critique will be Karl Marx, John Stewart Mill, and John Locke. The reason why I picked these three philosophers is because they all agree with some aspects of my writing, while disagreeing with others. One will disagree with the role of the state and the citizens, but agree with legalizing recreational drug use, while the other two will agree with the role of the state and citizens, but disagree with legalizing drug use.
Chapman’s supports his argument by trying to prove that people will not be tempted to try illicit drugs just because they are legal, but fails to make his argument clear regarding what kind of drugs he is speaking about. Chapman’s passage focuses only on a few drugs like cocaine and marijuana, but his implicit conclusion sounds like he wants all drugs to be legalized. Not only is his argument unclear, Chapman fails to provide unbiased evidence, statistics and information that would convince us that it really would be best for society if drugs were made legal. Overall, the argument presented in this passage fails to illustrate both sides of the argument, and convince readers that drugs should be
Drug use is part of human nature, but the unimaginable wealth involved leads to the corruption of the police, judges, and elected officials. There is no reason to have the government regulating what goes into an individual’s body. An extreme case of what we’re letting the government do is letting them take away our own self, an individual’s ownership over his own body. I think it’s in everyone’s interest to legalize all drugs, since this war is going nowhere, letting the government get more powerful than it was ever meant to have been, and it’s putting numbers over our names.
When you first hear of drugs you assume one is talking about illegal substances. In our society however drugs are more than just something to get you “high”. Some drugs however are here to help our society. Many drugs are here to be used as prescription drugs to ease us through pains, illnesses, and sorrows. As the technology and medical advances in our world, so do the many different drugs that are being tested in the drug pipelines and entering our markets.
significant health, social, and crime problems, and legalized drugs would only make the situation worse. The legalization lobby claims drugs are no more dangerous than alcohol, no more harmful than smoking cigarettes. But drunk driving is one of the primary killers of Americans. Do we want our bus drivers, nurses, and airline pilots to be able to take drugs one evening, and operate freely at work the next day? No, of course we don’t so why we legalize drugs that would give us those type of problems. Although, legalization recovering addicts claim that the United States has wasted billions of dollars in its anti-drug efforts. But for those who were saved from drug addiction, it’s as many wasted dollars. Compared to the social costs of drug
The legalization of drugs is a well disputed topic in today’s society that could have many positive and negative effects. Some people believe legalizing drugs would be beneficial because there
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The use of drugs by members of society is a problem for some individuals and a larger problem for the legal system. The use of drugs has created crime among the dealers of illegal substances in many forms, the classification of that substance determines the level of the crime, and with different charges the legal system acts accordingly. In the case of drugs and the legal systems, action against the use or distribution of those substances, many people have been incarcerated in the United States where the tax payers have to support the criminals that are housed for a period of time. In the United States over half a million individuals have been incarcerated for drug crimes and that number is growing annually. Society cannot continuously bare the burden of paying higher taxes to support the welfare of drug offenders if the number is only going to increase year after year. The suggestion has been made, which has been highly followed in some cases, that the use and distribution of illegal drug type substances should be legalized. The legalization of drugs, in various forms, is something that a large part of society do not have a problem supporting. The facts are that a large part of society use drugs on a fairly steady bases and that legalizing some forms of drugs could be beneficial to those individuals. The individuals that use drugs in society would not face jail time if caught and the ones that have been incarcerated would certainly be released, this would free up taxes to go toward other problems. It is theorized that legalization of drugs could get criminals off the streets and keep them out of jail so that the tax payers could pay less or the taxes could go toward more useful areas of focus. Many believe that legalization of...
The current drug situation within the United States has led individuals to question whether drugs should be legalized and to what extent. The War on Drugs in 1971 was the first push to fight against the booming drug epidemic, although many believe that it has gone too far. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 46.2% of inmates in prison as of last month were there because of a drug offense while major crimes such as assault and homicide were only a mere 3.3% (BOP 2018). This occurrence in our prison system has led to a push towards the legalization of drugs by some while others stand strongly to keep the current legislation. Many individuals believe that there should be minimal intervention in the citizen lives to allow individuals to make their own decisions
It is important to be informed of what we are defending, and in this case it is to not legalize drugs. One may ask, what are drugs? Drugs are chemicals, that may affect your body in many different ways, whether it be good or bad. However, most of the time, it 's not always a positive outcome. Some drugs even leave lifetime damage to your brain and body. Although, there are many different ways to take drugs, some of the most common ways are; inhalation, ingestion, and injection. All three ways, however affect the body differently. You don 't always know what you are ingesting or injecting and even inhaling. Most of the time, because drugs are illegal, they are sold through drug dealers