FREE ESSAY ON DRUGS LEGALIZE

DRUGS LEGALIZE

Should Drugs Be Made Legal?For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems
of society. There have been escalating costs spent on the war against drugs and countless
dollars spent on rehabilitation, but the problem still exists. Not only has the drug
problem increased but drug related problems are on the rise. Drug abuse is a killer in
our country. Some are born addicts(crack babies), while others become users.The result of
drug abuse is thousands of addicts in denial. The good news is the United States had
25,618 total arrests and 81,762 drug seizures due to drugs in 1989 alone, but the bad
news is the numbers of prisoners have increased by 70 percent, which will cost about $30
million dollars. Despite common wisdom, the U.S isn't experiencing a drug related crime
wave. Government surveys show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery
21 percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these numbers are up.
One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that
legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there
would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS.Many
believe that legalizing drugs would lessen crime. They point out that the legalization of
drugs would deter future criminal acts. They also emphasize and contrast Prohibition.
When the public realized that Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed.
From this, one may infer the same of legalizing drugs. Legalizing alcohol didn't increase
alcoholism, so why would drugs increase drug abuse?However, drugs should not be legalized
because there would be an increase in drug abuse due to its availability. Once legalized,
drugs would become cheaper and more accessible to people who previously had not tried
drugs, because of the high price or the legal risk. Drug abuse would skyrocket! Addicts
who tend to stop, not by choice, but because the drugs aren't accessible would now feed
the addiction if drugs were made legal. These drug addicts would not be forced to kick
the habit due to the availability of the drug they would partake eagerly. The temptation
to use drugs would increase when advertisements for cocaine, heroin and marijuana are
displayed on television. Instead of money used by employed addicts, you will see welfare
funds used to purchase drugs. If welfare funds were being misused, this would cause a
major problem in the economy. Drugs must not be legalized. It puts our country at a
terrible risk.Health officials have shown that the legalization of drugs would cause a
rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. AIDS poses a growing threat to addicts, and thus
to society as a whole. The virus that causes AIDS is growing, due to drug addicts who
share needles and syringes. The sharing of such needles by intravenous drug users helps
increase the spread of AIDS. Infection among IV drug abusers is continuing to occur at a
very steady rate, warn Richard E. Chaisson director of the AIDS service at John Hopkins
University. In the U.S gay men still make up the primary risk group, although 750,000 to
1 million drug addicts are believed to be at risk to AIDS nationally. The problem here is
the sharing of needles, which is causing the spread of AIDS. IV drug abusers are killing
our nation at an amazingly fast speed. AIDS which surfaced in the 80's is now on the rise
and even more deadly to IV drug users. The sharing of needles must be stopped. Drugs
should not be legalized.Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime,
drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse
and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. The United States can not afford this
problem. It has become a world power by strengthening its people not by killing them.
Drug abuse has gotten worse, with its effects on crack babies, drug addicts, and the I.V
user. There must be education for the survival of this nation, not legalization