Many of today’s illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine, amongst other substances and psychedelics, currently used in society were once in fact legal many thousands of years ago. Several of these drugs (if not all) were commonly practiced for medicinal and spiritual reasons. However, in this day and age, when people think of ‘drugs’ negative connotations of its supposed danger and “badness” perpetuated from the media began to appear. Drugs and drug policy have always been up for hot debate in the United States, especially since the ‘war on drugs’ with Nixon and Bush and overall its effects to the population. Unbeknownst to people, there are many benefits to the legalization and decriminalization of these substances. Reduction in crime and
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According to National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), fifty-four million people have died from a snowboarding/skiing related accident; thirty-five thousand and nine hundred people have died from a motor-vehicle involved accident; thousands of people have died from unintentional accidents/poisonings; a little over two thousand people have drowned and; several hundred people have died from bicycle related accidents. What does this have to do with anything? With all of the things we do, we consume, and we participate in there’s always going to be a risk that is attributed with it. While these “risks” at times are rather minor in comparison you do not see people picketing and going on social campaigns to prohibit these things. These things though harmful when misused are in fact beneficial when used in moderation; exercise from physical activities, vehicles for transportation, etc., and the same applies for drugs as well.
There are in fact many benefits to the legalization of all drugs some being the reduction in crime and violence, a reduction in health risks that are associated with the legal status of drugs now, and several other things. With the legalization of all drugs, crime and violence will go down as the mindset of “because I can’t have it I need it” will be removed. People will no longer sought out drugs from the black market (drug dealers,
According to National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), fifty-four million people have died from a snowboarding/skiing related accident; thirty-five thousand and nine hundred people have died from a motor-vehicle involved accident; thousands of people have died from unintentional accidents/poisonings; a little over two thousand people have drowned and; several hundred people have died from bicycle related accidents. What does this have to do with anything? With all of the things we do, we consume, and we participate in there’s always going to be a risk that is attributed with it. While these “risks” at times are rather minor in comparison you do not see people picketing and going on social campaigns to prohibit these things. These things though harmful when misused are in fact beneficial when used in moderation; exercise from physical activities, vehicles for transportation, etc., and the same applies for drugs as well.
There are in fact many benefits to the legalization of all drugs some being the reduction in crime and violence, a reduction in health risks that are associated with the legal status of drugs now, and several other things. With the legalization of all drugs, crime and violence will go down as the mindset of “because I can’t have it I need it” will be removed. People will no longer sought out drugs from the black market (drug dealers,