Legalizing Drugs

Legalizing the now illegal drugs is dangerous to the communities around the drug users. These drugs are illegal for a reason, they harm everyone around them including the user. While some believe that legalizing the now illegal drugs will stop other crimes, it isn’t the best choice because it causes crime in communities and is dangerous to the user. Legalizing these drugs would cause communities to have more crime such as DUI’s and robberies. The NCADD says “The use of illegal drugs is often associated with murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny/theft, serious motor vehicle offenses with dangerous consequences, arson and hate crimes”(). These drugs even if it has a small chance to influence someone to do these crimes they can change lives for the worse in the community and can harm the economy in the area if it gets too dangerous. Drugs are harmful to the places around the drugs and can be adversely affected by the use of them. It can hurt the user of the drugs mentally, physically and financially. Drugabuse.gov said “People who suffer from addiction often have one or more accompanying medical issues, which may include lung or cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, and mental disorders”(). This means that when you use drugs your chance for these medical issues increase. Drugs also

James Wilson stated “The central problem with legalizing drugs is that it will increase drug consumption”() and “under legalization the quality price would be lower”(). This is saying that if all drugs were legalized then it would be consumed more which as stated before would cause more crime. It also states the quality would be lower which would cause more injuries and hospitalizations. Both these issues would make stress harder for the hospitals and police. Legalizing drugs would not allow the police to have more resources but less and would put more stress on the