Legalization of marijuana might be a good solution to solve some problems. Legalization would help cripple the cartel in the billion dollar business. It would also allow the State to collect tax on all cannabis items. There would still be attempts to smuggle the narcotic across the border, but would not be as valuable as it is in today’s market. Legalization would also allow officials to concentrate on more allusive drugs such as cocaine, and
She states “Mexican drug trafficking organizations are the largest providers of illicit drugs to the United States. They have also grown to rely on advanced, high-power weaponry and to use their nearly military-grade armament to maintain control over smuggling corridors, and local drug production areas.” She further claimed that, “The United States is likely the most prevalent source of weapons for the increasingly violent cartels.” Despite these claims we can be confident that with better federal and state regulations we can drastically reduce the problem of “high-power weaponry” getting into the hands of criminals and drug traffickers. The evidence has shown that making something illegal at times only increases the problem. In cases such as
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.
In fact, even with its severe user penalties, the United States still far exceeds the Netherlands for marijuana and cocaine usage where they do not take legal action for possession of pot for personal use (Smith). This means the people who are going to do drugs will do so regardless of the repercussions making the criminalization of such behavior ineffective in reducing the number of users. We can make all the drug busts and user arrests we want until the end of time and it won’t stop people from trying drugs. As long as there is a demand, there will always be a supply (Javdani 376) And let’s not forget about the newest and biggest trend thus far being made and distributed right here in the United States: prescription
There is a large profit that can result from drug trafficking, which could be one of the reasons behind the crime not always being viewed under a zero tolerance policy. The global crimes that have become some of the largest issues previously mentioned always make the implication that some sort of organized crime has occurred or is occurring. A problem that arises when organized crimes occur is that there are often “crooked” police officers who handle the law unfairly among certain suspects or criminals. Another issue in drug trafficking is that sometimes, groups of organized crimes all link to a business or business people. One other issue for drug and human trafficking crimes is border security and safety.
However, to a large extend the figures in the two sources do show that prohibition was not successful. The public were producing more and more alcohol as a result of the restrictions placed on them. Prohibition went against the previously accepted way of life and restricting this only helped to push the production and drinking of alcohol underground. People became very clever at finding ways to obtain recipes for producing their own alcohol and the 25% increase in illegal stills seized by the government proves this. If the police were doing their job properly, the figures should be decreasing not increasing.
Instead of an estimated decrease in violence, crime and alcohol consumption, it led to an increase in at least violence and crime. When people could not gain access to alcohol the way they were used to, they had to find an alternate source. This led to a huge black market for alcohol and the start for one of America's most infamous gangsters: Al Capone. The alcohol supplied was however no longer produced under legitimate supervision, and had often been spiked with poison and chemicals, which led to an increase in deaths from alcoholic poisoning. The huge black market for alcohol controlled by crime organizations grew so large that many of the criminal groups were able to build their empires mainly on profits from illegal alcohol.
We Should Keep Drugs Illegal Imagine living in the United States as it increases in criminal acts, increases in the number of people who demonstrate health problems or negative mind altering behavior die to the intake of a substance, and on increase of an illegal drug? Some believe that legalization would be the best way to fight the drug problem. That it would reduce the disease, violence and crime associated with the use of illegal drugs. I think legalization is not the answer. By making drugs legal we are lowering the standards of our country.
Let’s take, for example, the drug OxyContin, lets’ examine what happened to this medication. Just like Marijuana, It was created to help people from pain, but turned out to be a menace to society. Prescriptions being altered, doctors giving excessive amounts of money, addicts breaking into pharmacies and hurting people. The legalization of marijuana will bring more criminal activity because of the lack of impaired judgment associated with the drug. An individual will have impaired judgment and altered decision making if found to be under the influence of
The drugs would also be more potent and less contaminated. “Wherever an operation is shut down, a new one is opened up.” He concludes that if efforts could succeed in significantly reducing either the supply of drugs or the demand for them, we would not need to seek change in policy (Is curbing a rising population of users not a success??). He says that due to our repeated failures, there is need for some a change. It seems that based on Nadelman’s perspective, he would argue for the legalization of cognitive enhancing drugs as well as illicit drugs. William Bennett has other