The Truth About the War on Drugs; Our Wars at Home Part II

The War on drugs has been raging on in this country since Nancy Reagan first declared; "Just say no". Many believe that this is a good thing. However, what price do we pay for this war on drugs? How many billions of tax payers' dollars? How many lives have been ruined? Are there any possibly better solutions?

Not everyone believes in this costly war, but it is being waged anyway. The reason, like with most things on the governmental level, has mostly to do with money. Whose money, you ask? Well, our money, for starters, and of course, the big drug companies and our wonderful politicians. See most people figure that if you legalize drugs than the world will fall into another dark age.

This dark-age would be filled with millions of people walking the streets, high on drugs, committing violent crimes. But does this really make sense? Aren't there already millions of people walking the streets high on drugs? Of course there are. Aren't they already committing violent crimes? Well, yes. So what would be so different?

First of all, it is highly unlikely that given drugs were made legal the number of drug users would increase by any significant amount. I haven't met too many, if any, people who have said that they would start using drugs if they were legalized. Second, most violent crimes attributed to drug use are related to the illegal sale of such drugs. Finally, this country would save millions, if not billions, of dollars fighting this war on drugs.

Let's look deeper into this. How many people, and you make take a poll of your acquaintances, do you know who would start using illegal drugs that they are not currently using, if they were legalized?

How many times has your friend Bob said; "I would love to smoke some crack cocaine, if only it were legal"?

People who use drugs, use drugs, that's all there is to it. Just like alcoholics were not made alcoholics by the legalization of the substance itself.

Illicit drug use is considered a major problem by some.

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