Introduction
Drug abuse affects all of us in our daily lives. It ruins families and destroys relationships. Teens especially are prone to drug abuse due to immense peer pressure, everyday stress, and depression. Marijuana use is on the rise everywhere, and with marijuana comes the harder drugs, making drug abuse an important and critical issue in the world today. There are many issues on different drugs but one sticks in our mind, marijuana. The push for legalization of marijuana has increased over the years and now even being used for medical purposes. This leads one to think that legalization is merely a decade or two away. Justice John McCart agreed that the drug was relatively harmless but, he added, that it was not up to the courts but the government to change the laws on pot.
Governments wage wars on drugs and seem to fail, who can stop all the drugs in the world from getting into your son or daughters hands, not many people. Drug cartels sometimes run like invisible needles, pumping drugs into North America like heroin in the bloodstream. The money being spent on fighting this war on drugs seems to be to no avail as drug statistics have sky rocketed over the last couple of years.
In the US over 170,000 people are admitted to hospital every year because they misused an over-the-counter product. Studies have suggested that over half of these cases could be prevented with better information and consumer education. A big part of the problem is that many people find drug labels confusing or just plain hard to read. This has prompted The Food and Drug Administration to introduce new labeling standards for over-the-counter drugs making labels clearer and easier to read and understand much in the same way our food labels do......
