Drugs

Daniel Lynch
28 September 2003

Drugs


The problem that will be addressed in this essay is what to do about the concerns associated with drugs. Drugs can affect someone's attitude and mind set to the point that they become a different person, capable of anti-social or even criminal acts that they would not commit ordinarily. Since society can suffer randomly from such abusive behavior, people consider that society has a right to become involved in the individual actions of such offenders. A conflict arises as a result of the need to balance personal freedoms against the good of society as a whole.
Currently, some drugs are legal, while others are illegal. The legal drugs are left to the discretion of the American Medical Association, while the illegal drugs are left to the discretion of law enforcement agencies who have no medical background. Public opinion, which is based on relatively uneduca...