Abstract
As the topic of drug is quite wide and every country is being affected so in order to narrow the research I have assigned a thesis statement to this issue “Should drugs be legalized” in comparison between two countries: America and Europe’s and their response towards the issue.
Introduction
For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems of society. There have been escalating costs spent on the war against drugs and countless dollars spent on rehabilitation, but the problem still exists. Not only has the drug problem increased but also drug related problems are on the rise. Some are born addicts (crack babies), while others become users.
Pros and cons of drug legalization
One controversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. People who support legalization of drug argue that if marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs were legalized, several positive things would probably occur: drug prices would fall; users would obtain their drugs at low, government-regulated prices, and they would no longer be forced to resort to crime in order to support their habits; levels of drug-related crime, and particularly violent crime, would significantly decline, resulting in less crowded courts, jails, and prisons (this would allow law-enforcement personnel to focus their energies on the "real criminals" in society); and the drug production, distribution, and sale would no longer be controlled by organized crime, and thus such criminal syndicates as the Colombian cocaine "cartels," the Jamaican "posses," and the various "mafias" around the country and the world would be decapitalized, and the violence associated with drug distribution rivalries would be eliminated. (Block, Walter, 1993, pp.689-700)..................
