pro pot: On anti pot’s number one: The prohibition on drugs causes crime. Ostrowski, political analyst of the Cato Institute (from James’ ‘Thinking About Drug Legalization’), states that drug laws greatly increase the price of illegal drugs, often forcing users to steal to get the money to obtain them. Although difficult to estimate, the black market prices of heroin and cocaine> appear to be many times greater than their> pharmaceutical prices. For example, a hospital-dispensed> dose of morphine (a drug from which heroin is relatively> easily derived) costs only pennies; legal cocaine costs> about a dollar per ounce. It is frequently estimated> that a good percentage of all property crime in the> United States is committed by drug users so that they> can maintain their habits. That amounts to about four> million crimes per year and billions of dollars in> stolen property.
Supporters of prohibition have> traditionally used drug-related crime as a simplistic> argument for enforcement: Stop drug use to stop> drug-related crime. They have even exaggerated the> amount of such crime in the hopes of demonstrating a> need for larger budgets. But in recent years, the more> astute prohibitionists have noticed that drug-related> crime is in fact drug law-related. The fact is, while> some researchers have questioned the causal connection> between illegal drugs and street crime, many studies> over a long period have confirmed what every inner-city> dweller already knows: drug users steal to get the money> to buy expensive illegal drugs. > > These studies were reviewed in an article entitled> ‘Narcotics and Crime: An Analysis of Existing Evidence> for a Causal Relationship.’ The authors conclude that> heroin addiction can be shown to dramatically increase> property crime levels. A high proportion of addicts’> pre-addiction criminality consists of minor and drug> offenses, while post-addiction criminality is> characterized much more by property crime.
The Term Paper on Drug Abuse 2 Drugs Illegal Marijuana
The term drug abuse most often refers to the use of a drug with such frequency that it causes physical or mental harm to the user or impairs social functioning. Although the term seems to imply that users abuse the drugs they take, in fact, it is themselves or others they abuse by using drugs. Traditionally, the term drug abuse referred to the use of any drug prohibited by law, regardless of ...
Moreover, > prohibition also stimulates crime by criminalizing users> of illegal drugs, creating disrespect for the law; > encouraging young people to become criminals by creating> an extremely lucrative black market in drugs, destroying> the economic viability of low-income neighborhoods, > leaving young people fewer alternatives to working in> the black market, and removing the settling of> drug-related disputes from the legal process, creating a> context of violence for the buying and selling of drugs. > Every property crime committed by a drug user is> potentially a violent crime. Many victims are beaten, > severely injured, and murdered each year. Last year in> Brooklyn, Eli Wald, the father of a baby girl, was> murdered for taking money to buy crack. Another New York> City crack user murdered five people in an eight-day> period to get the money to buy drugs. The user survived> the crack, but his victims did not.
So in actuality, the> act of prohibiting drugs is to blame for so called> ‘drug-related violence.’ > > On his number two: Legal drugs like morphine, alcohol, > and a pack of smokes are more detrimental to the user> and those around the user than one joint smoked a week. > Plus, if pot were to be legalized, it would be> regulated, and DUIs could be given to those who drive> while high. Also, on his attempt at dissing my author, > legalize it. com, legalize it. com is the brainchild of> NORML creators. It has information compiled from all> over the United States and even if you don’t buy it, the> other card still stands.
> > Also, legalization will not increase drug use. Ostrowski> says that long-term trends in legal drug use suggest> that there would be no substantial increase in drug use> under decriminalization. As a society, we are gradually> moving away from the harmful use of alcohol and tobacco. > Alcohol consumption and deaths caused by alcohol have> also been gradually declining as people switch from hard> liquor to less potent formulations.
The Essay on Drug And Alcohol Abuse
If I were an advisor to the Governor of Missouri, the issue I would encourage him to address is the manufacture of drugs and the use of drugs and alcohol throughout our state. The advice I would give him is to impose stiffer penalties for those who manufacture drugs and focus on prevention, and, most importantly, rehabilitation, of those who abuse alcohol or drugs. According to the Missouri ...
Finally, use of> marijuana has declined, according to the National> Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
As our society grows> increasingly health- and fitness-conscious, heavy drug> use loses its appeal. Many people are trading in the> tavern for the health club and choosing vitamins instead> of martinis. The value of health and moderation clearly> has less influence on the illegal drug scene, where> hardcore drug users form subcultures that reinforce> heavy, reckless drug use.
For most of human history, > even under conditions of ready access to the most potent> of drugs, people and societies have regulated their drug> use without requiring massive education, legal, and> interdiction campaigns. Before drug prohibition, in both> America and England, narcotics use peaked and then> declined long before national prohibition was adopted. > Today, in spite of the availability of alcohol, problem> drinkers are considered to compose only a small> percentage of the population. In spite of the fact that> marijuana can be purchased on virtually any street> corner in some cities, only a small percentage of the> population has done so in the last month, according to> NIDA. Prohibition is at best a comfort. Perhaps the most> telling indicator of the ineffectiveness of U.
S. drug> laws is their failure to reduce the overall use of> illegal drugs. On a per capita basis, the use of> narcotics was no more prevalent before prohibition than> it is today. Seventy years of intensive law enforcement> efforts have failed to measurably reduce drug use. The> failure of drug control should not be surprising. During> Prohibition, alcohol consumers merely switched from beer> and wine to hard liquor, often of dubious quality, > resulting in a drastic increase in deaths from alcohol> poisoning.
The Term Paper on Should The United States End Drug Prohibition
The Federal Government, while trying to protect us from our human nature, developed harsh anti-drug policies with the hope of eradicating drugs. Atthe time, these policies seemed simple enough: we will impose penalties on those who use substances illegally, we will intercept drugs coming from other countries while ending all drug cultivation in the States, and we will even try to prevent foreign ...
Whether Prohibition actually reduced total> consumption is disputed, but it is known that the repeal> of Prohibition did not lead to an explosive increase in> drinking. More recently, in those states that have> decriminalized marijuana, no substantial increase in use> has occurred. When the Netherlands decriminalized> marijuana, use actually declined. So in conclusion, drug> use will not increase after legalization, and crime will> go down, because all ‘drug-related’ crimes are actually> drug-PROHIBITION-related crimes..
