Legalizing Drugs

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The current Political issue of legalizing drugs in the United States

In today 's world , drugs are everywhere , some of the legal ones include coffee , alcohol and medicine from hospitals Some illegal ones include heroin , cannabis and cocaine

People take drugs for various reasons , for example people take drugs because of curiosity , peer pressure , mental stress , guilt , enjoyment low self-esteem , ignorance , running away from problems and idleness

Drugs interfere with the physical body , health , social , emotional being , psychological , job life of a person

, spiritual and financial life of an individual .Many people have been involved in the abuse of drugs Abuse is where an individual has , too much of a drug and also has it too often

In the United States just like in other countries , arguments have been concerning the legalization of drugs . It has been a time of push and pull , where some people think that it essential to legalize them , and others think that legalizing them would be unethical . Doug Husak of Rutgers University in New Jersey says that legalizing drugs would lead to the careless use of drugs by young people hence leading to a declined species of young people as some will die , while others will have mental related difficulties

Another argument put forward is that legalizing drugs would not have a great effect on issues that regards law and making and passing of policies , therefore , there would not be any problem in legalizing it

Secondly , it is argued whether drugs will be used to defend a person in a criminal case . For example , if a person is caught having murdered will your case be written off because you were found to be under the influence of Heroin

It is also argued that legalizing drugs would mean banning the Food and Drug Administration which looks into the safety of food and drugs . If drugs are legalized it would mean baning FDA , because allowing it to function would be hypocritical , because it would continue to ban dangerous drugs . For example the ban of the use of Red Dye number 2 which was conceived to be causing cancer , this however will not work since the other drugs will still be existing having been legalized Therefore what will be the need of the continual existence of FDA

The other argument is , if drugs are legalized what would happen to Dram Shop ' laws , these are laws that are used to govern the people who sell in bars . If a bar person sells alcohol to a person , and then the drank person goes on and commits a crime ,the bar person will be held responsible . The question is , if drugs are legalized will those laws still be functional and if they will not what about those laws protecting the ethics of the people . Are we then going to allow crimes to keep happening in the name of making profit and legalizing drugs

In June 2005 , there was an argument whether Marijuana should be used for Chronic...