What Are The Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Drugs

Pro Drug Legalization

“The War on Drugs is unwinnable. It was unwinnable for Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and now Obama”. At forty-four years with Donald Trump as the president, it’s America’s longest war and there’s no end in sight. (Winslow)” If we haven't succeeded in the past 44 years we will not succeed now, perhaps it's time to try something different. In the opinion of many knowledgeable experts in the field The legalization of drugs offers a more viable solution to end this long fought war between the law and consumers. The war on drugs began when President Nixon declared war on illegal drug trading around the U.S. in 1971. This long fought war will end the day that we stop fighting it with the same strategies we have pursued and eventually legalizing drugs will boost our economic drastically and better our public safety.

Billions of dollars are used on the arrest of drug users every year. There's a lot of expenses for putting that person behind bars, taxpayers have to pay for the cost of those expenses for example: food, attorneys, court, health care and prison. According to Winslow “Every dollar we spend on drugs and every dollar we spend trying to interdict them raises the profits of the Mexican cartels and makes them more powerful”. Is not only that we can't win this war, we are destroying each other as well, a half-century of failed policy, $1 trillion, and 45 million arrests has not reduced daily drug use—at all. By legalizing drugs we can have mutual benefits instead of making cartels richer, we can tax them and grow our economy. Less money would be going to prisons and more to more important things such as schools, healthcare, public safety and other sectors of the economy more beneficial to our