Legalize It Every year in America billions of dollars are made illegally, thousands of people are imprisoned, and even more people lose their lives to drugs. On a broad level, illegal drugs ruin whole communities by perpetuating the disease of addiction and engulfing neighborhoods in the gang violence that inevitably comes with illegal drug trafficking. On a more personal level, illegal drugs ruin lives by making people turn their backs on loved ones and causing them to throw away their dreams. Most people agree that a problem that is this pervasive and expansive must be dealt with, but few can agree on a solution. There is only one practical solution.
A survey done in 1991 showed that over 20 million people used marijuana within that year. In the United States there are more than 300,000 drug offenders in prison at every moment costing our government $100,000 per cell, meaning it costs $30 billion to make a place for these people to serve their crime. In addition it costs $25,000 per year to keep an inmate in prison, adding $15 billion more to our already high costs (Towards a Policy on Drugs). Elliott Currie describes that the United States should adopt the Dutch policy of legalization of marijuana and other hashish drugs excluding cocaine and heroin. These two drugs are much more harmful to you and can be highly addictive.
According to a project run by The Huffington Post, 40% of juvenile offenders sent to private prisons on account of drug related crimes are arrested and convicted of harsher crimes in less than a year from their release (Kirkham). Moreover, the concept of combating drugs with the threat of imprisonment is counterproductive. Imprisoning low level drug-dealers for long periods of time creates a gaping void in the market, quickly replaced by desperate individuals wanting to generate an income, and the number of potential “criminals” skyrockets. Thus, by locking away non-violent offenders with such long sentences, the incarceration boom is being promoted, and wrecking societal
Would you want them <br>working for you? Plus, the financial impact on business is severely staggering <br>because of drug using employees (Psychemedics, 1). <br> According to federal experts, ten to twenty-three percent of Americans <br>have used or currently using dangerous drugs while on the job, and forty-four <br>percent of drug users even admit to selling drugs on the job. Drug abusers cost an <br>employer on average $7,000 to $10,000 per employee annually (Jussim, 14) <br>(Psychemedics,1). Today, millions of workplaces have begun giving test, hoping <br>to eliminate drugs from the employees and the workplace.
Not only are these crimes becoming violent and involving money, guns, and sex, but also murder. Financing these activities exceed national levels of debt; Worldometers real time world statistics reports that $329,576,150,900 and counting have been spent on illegal drugs this year (Worldometers Statistics, 2012) The amplitude of this problem has become out of reach for our neighbors, state and local drug agencies, Federal Drug Enforcement, national and transnational Security this problem has to be regulated, enforced
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Illegal Immigration is reaching epidemic proportions in many American States and cities. The American Government and its politicians at all levels of government are failing to perform the very basic fundamentals of their elected post, to protect and defend its citizens. The United States is being invaded by nearly 20 million illegal immigrants who are over taxing public services, the cost of which are staggering. The population and the cost to the American tax payer are nearly equal to Illinoi, America’s 5th most populated state. What American’s politicians fail to realize is that the border security itself is much like the tip of an iceberg, the greater problem is the remaining 90% of the immigration
The meth epidemic in the United States has accumulated over 1 and a half million addicts. There is no question that this epidemic has created a social problem with in our society. Meth has developed into a problem because like other drugs, it creates a sense of apathy and desperation. Because of this desperation and apathy addicts become violent and mentally unstable. They do things that if they weren’t on the drug they otherwise wouldn’t do.
Drug Abuse today affects many people in many places; it tears apart families, countries and even leading to war. It is a major problem within our society, affecting even the most innocent of people. Marijuana alone creates economic and moral issues within the United States. Just one example: over 100 million people above the age of 12 admitted to using marijuana alone at least once in their life that was 40.01 percent of the surveyed people. If such a large percentage of people have used illegal drugs it causes the need for two questions: How many of these people go to prison per year?
The use of drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin and marijuana has been proved to cause unbelievable damage and harm to the body and brain. In the Article “Info Facts-Heroin” reports that thousands of heroin addicts die from overdoses each year and heroin users are also at great risk of getting aids from the use of unclean needles. By legalizing drugs every one would have the right to consume drugs without any restrictions which would lead hospitals to be more filled, more school dropouts would occur, and more crack babies raise the stakes of legalizing drugs. Knowing what drugs do to users has been the solid basis for my saying no to drugs and why I believe they should not be
Drug trafficking is a serious and frightening business. Drug trafficking has a huge effect on the government the safety of the people. The United States is doing everything it can to stop drug trafficking. Each year the exchange of money and blood are given trade for drugs, we’re left with many unanswered questions. Drug trafficking is an epidemic in the world not just the United States.