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LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS
If drugs were legalized it would put the people who have the biggest opposition to it out of business and that is the drug dealers.
As a result, the dealers who prey on the young adults by "pushing" drugs in our streets and schools, and the number of new addicts due to this lucrative would disappear.
Much of the crimes that are related to drugs come from the addicts who need money to get their fix, not from the effects of the drugs they have taken. In fact if drugs were legalized the addict would no longer have to pay outrageous amounts for a cheap to produce product and as a result they would not have to commit a crime to obtain the money.
I believe that the crimes that occur involving the drug trade would be greatly lessened. There would be less fighting in a street corner or a territory because there would be no more drug dealers.
Current addicts would be in heaven because they can now get drugs at a reasonable price and would probably even use more, but they would no longer be robbing, killing and stealing to get their fix.
There is no doubt that the crimes that go along with drugs is because of prohibition just as what happened with alcohol prohibition crime was up after prohibition was repealed the crimes dropped. How many bootleggers do you hear about in this day and age? How many moonshine do you here about being busted today? Next to none in both cases. Why? Because the repeal of prohibition put the bootleggers out of business but on the other side of the coin it seems like every day or so we hear about a meth lab being busted, people being arrested for having a small amount of some type of illegal substance. Most drug related murders are because of drug prohibition. Why? Because it is a supply and demand as long as there are addicts there will be suppliers, as long as there are suppliers and addicts there will be manufactures and growers.
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