DRUG

Drug

Drug

Introduction

Drug use is often frowned upon and seen as evil. It is an awful and financially troubling enterprise. Never can it be understood why people choose to take drugs, and let themselves become addicted, throwing their lives away. However, the use of drugs in America accounts for nearly 40 billion dollars put into economies around the world (The Marijuana News, online). Why cannot this money go into our economy to make our nation stronger? (Miller 2000)

Discussion

The ideal that by cutting off the flow of drugs will quell people's desires to consume them is ludicrous. It is unreasonable to think that by restricting something you can efficiently cut its use. Giving people the freedom to choose to avoid drugs for themselves is the only way to end the craziness surrounding the issue. (Miller 2000) There are simply far too many people that want these substances to think that they can ever be wiped out of our world. If drugs are legalized the effect would be minimal. Drug prices will remain the same, with the addition of new government taxes, thus only appealing to the same market of people. Opening our borders to just another form of trade will make our nation stronger.

This entices us to go into the affairs of other countries. We must realize that we are not able to make policies in other countries. We have to try to become allies with all of our neighbors trading and associating with them freely. Our nation has lost many trade options due to our encompassing "War on Drugs"(Civil Liberties, online). This "war" simply means that we have to stay on alert all day, every day, with nations that we could otherwise trade freely. (Miller 2000) This opulent use of our power to regulate our borders and theirs shows other nations that we want to be able to control what goes on in their countries. We also hurt many others' economies by attacking them in this "war"(The Marijuana News, online). We attack them not militarily, but on a basis of slowing our trade with them or not acknowledging their trade in general, simply because they allow their citizens to have more civil liberties than we do. These countries provide their people with the things that they want and yet we still punish them. (Miller 2000) We fight diplomatically to give men and women freedom all over the world, yet we ...