Drug Legalization

Drug Legalization in the United States




Should drugs be legalized? This question has been debated for decades. Each side has benefits as well as problems. When the topic of legalizing drugs is discussed, the uneducated public immediately thinks it is a bad idea. To truly know which side is the best, for or against, one must go in-depth about the subject. Before one makes their judgment, one must know the history and current statistics of drugs, why they should be legalized, and why drugs should remain illegal.
Drugs have been in use for centuries. They were first used regularly for patients in the 1800’s and early 1900’s. Coca-Cola even used significant amounts of cocaine in its original recipe . Of course the Coca-Cola Company has since changed the recipe. The first laws against the sales of drugs in the United States were established in 1909 . These laws made opium illegal. Some doctors got rich by prescribing drugs to whoever would buy them. As a result of these actions...