“The implications for a policy
change to legalization -- should give us pause if we care about the dire
consequences drug addiction has on society.”
I can see where everyone is coming from when they say legalizing
different drugs could lead to more addictions and be hard on society. But if we
were to limit everything because of the possible side effects then we wouldn’t have
any of these types of drugs. I think that the legalization of marijuana wouldn’t
make as many people become as addicted compared to tobacco, I’ve heard that
specifically tobacco has stuff that makes it addictive in it. Nobody is bound
to get addicted to anything, if you are a strong person you can control how
much you have of anything. “Addictions” to me are things you enjoy doing and
would have a hard time giving up but if you really wanted to, you could. Nobody
is going to quit anything if they don’t want to, simply put.
“Legalization in the United States
is likely to accompany a bombardment of promotion, similar to our other three
classes of legal drugs.” I think that this is very true about companies
promoting the use to get more addictive people to buy from them. However the
people that become addicted don’t become addictive because of the tactics taken
to advertise that. It could get them to get involved in the use of this newly
legalized drug but everything is your own decision, it’s not like their shoving
it down people’s throat. If prices are very high, it could potential reduce the
sales to people who aren’t addicted and all that would be buying is addicted
people which will show you that they want it so bad they are willing to pay it.
But not everyone has that kind of mentality and you can’t change people that do
have that mentality just like you can’t make a strong person become addicted because
that isn’t their mind set.
“Interestingly, though, according
to criminologist Mark Kleiman, if all drug prisoners were released tomorrow, we
would still have four times the number of people in prison than our historical
incarceration rate instead of five.” Even with all the problems with drug use,
that isn’t the biggest problem in the world. Drug use doesn’t appear to cause
other issues other than addiction and death if the users aren’t aware of the
harm it can cause. We can blame that on them being not as informed as they
should be when it comes to side effects. I think overall people will become
addicted to things, legal or not. Not all addictions involve drugs either some
can be worse than that. Any person will do whatever appeals to them regardless
so the next step is questionable in any case.
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