Why We Should Legalize Drugs

In Gore Vidal’s, “Drugs,” (Essays in Context 1970) he states that it’s possible to stop the drug addiction problem in the United States. All you have to do is make every drug available and sell it at cost. Nevertheless most drugs are bad for people to do, yet it seems unlikely that any reasonably sane person will become a drug addict if they know what the addiction is going to be like. On the other hand some people will always become drug addicts just like some people will always become alcoholics, he reports.
“Both the Bureau of Narcotics and the mafia want strong laws against the sale and use of drugs because if drugs are sold at cost there would be no money in it for anyone… Will anything sensible be done? Of course not. The American people are as devoted to the idea of sin and its punishment as they are to making money-and fighting drugs is nearly as big a business as pushing them. Since the combination of sin and money is irresistible, the situation will only grow wo...