Drug Legalization In The United States

Drug legalization is one of the most conflict-ridden issues within the United States. Although, my belief identifies closely with those who see drugs as being able to assist in certain medical conditions, I also identify with those who believe that certain drugs need to be regulated in order to avoid addiction and more importantly abused.
One argument, that has been made prominent, is that drug legalization would lessen the number of people who become involved and introduced to the criminal justice system. However, many people feel that because of the already growing problem with licit drugs, legalizing additional drugs would only contribute to the rate of addiction.
It is here, that we recognize the issue that many Americans have with drugs in general. The issue of the problem is not the drug on its own, but by how the drug is being used. Nonprescription, prescription, and herbal drugs, like illegal drugs, need to be understood in order to determine the affect on the body.
Something that we learned earlier on in this course was how technology and drugs are both very similar in retrospect. They each have the ability to impact social changes within a family, a community, a city, and within a nation. Because of this ability laws have also had to change. …show more content…
After that came the Narcotics Control Act and the Drug Abuse Control Amendments which, not only, imposed severe penalties on any person convicted on a narcotics or marijuana charge but it was adopted that there would be strict control over amphetamines, barbiturates, and LSD along with other similar