SHOULD DRUGS BE LEGALIZED?

Should drugs be legalized?

Should Drugs Be Legalized?

Introduction

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.

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.

Discussion

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 When the public realized that Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed.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?Marijuana is also found to be useful in medical treatment. The attribute of the drug to increase the appetite can be used to prevent the weight loss associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids).It is also found to decrease the eye pressure in people with glaucoma and lessen the nausea caused by cancer chemotherapy and radiation treatment.

In recent years, in the United States and many other countries, a debate has been sparked up on the advantages and benefits of the drug. Many people argue that owing to the medical uses of marijuana, it should legalized and available to the patients. They argue that marijuana provides symptoms relief when other medications fail. Researches and studies are being carried out everyday to come to a conclusion.

In the year 1999, the White House commissioned a report on the context of its medical use. The report openly negated the office's publicly stated view that marijuana had no medical value. At a press conference announcing the findings, John A. Benson, former dean of the Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine in Portland, said the panel had uncovered “an explosion of new scientific knowledge about how the active components of marijuana affect the body and in how they might be used in a medical context.” in particular, the team observed the potential value of powerful chemicals in ...