Drug Legalization

Drug Legalization

What are you’re views on the legalization of drugs? Would it benefit society or would it be a catastrophic downfall? I believe that if we legalize drugs the amount of crime that is committed in the U.S. each year would drastically decrease. Most of the crimes committed in the U.S. right now are drug-related. People are forced to commit crimes to get money for drugs that could easily be afforded if the government would legalize it and distribute it lawfully.
Before drug laws existed no drug problem existed. People recognized occasional harm from some drugs, but that was no more considered a social problem then tobacco use was considered a social problem. When the nineteen twenties prohibition on alcohol has failed. There is no possible way that the drug prohibition is going to be effective.
Myth is an engine pushing the drug war, factual arguments may be dismissed as irrelevant by persons who live the myth. To affect the drug war we must a...