The name of article I am going to summarize is Drugs written by Gore Vidal in 1970. In the article, author showed the possibility of legalizing the drugs, labelling each drug with its effects and selling drugs at cost to stop most drug addiction in America. Gore Vidal argued in the article, drug addiction is similar to alcohol addiction, once forbidden by the government, the situation would turn worse, which cased his belief in that if everyone knows what would drugs’ effects in advance, he or she would not become a drug addict as long as he or she is “reasonably sane”. To prove that, he took himself as an example, he admitted that he had tried “once—almost every drug” and insisted on “like none”. What’s more, Gore Vidal suggested the
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I felt nothing but scared at the moment when drug addicts in drug rehabilitation centre struggling to obtain drugs. Their facial expressions showed how painful they were when their body needed drugs in even if they didn’t want to in their minds. Because of the experience I have, I quite agree with the idea given by Gore Vidal that if everyone knows what would drugs’ effect in advance, he or she would not become a drug addict as long as he or she is “reasonably sane”. There were of a lot of news, which reported about people, especially teenagers getting started to take drugs only because of curiosity or they thought that taking drugs could make a distinction between them and others. It is important to labor the effects of each drug in China as well to protect people who are not informed of the terrible effects of drugs from being injured. As for decreasing crime by legalizing the drugs and selling them at cost, I think it is reasonable. Being controlled by the Mafia or gangland, the price of drugs would be very high, which indirectly causes the increase the occurrence of crime events. Sin and money are like twins, the more money entered the Mafia, the more powerful the Mafia would be and cause more crimes at the meantime. As far as I am concerned, it is better to sell drugs by the government rather than let the Mafia take charge of the sell
I felt nothing but scared at the moment when drug addicts in drug rehabilitation centre struggling to obtain drugs. Their facial expressions showed how painful they were when their body needed drugs in even if they didn’t want to in their minds. Because of the experience I have, I quite agree with the idea given by Gore Vidal that if everyone knows what would drugs’ effect in advance, he or she would not become a drug addict as long as he or she is “reasonably sane”. There were of a lot of news, which reported about people, especially teenagers getting started to take drugs only because of curiosity or they thought that taking drugs could make a distinction between them and others. It is important to labor the effects of each drug in China as well to protect people who are not informed of the terrible effects of drugs from being injured. As for decreasing crime by legalizing the drugs and selling them at cost, I think it is reasonable. Being controlled by the Mafia or gangland, the price of drugs would be very high, which indirectly causes the increase the occurrence of crime events. Sin and money are like twins, the more money entered the Mafia, the more powerful the Mafia would be and cause more crimes at the meantime. As far as I am concerned, it is better to sell drugs by the government rather than let the Mafia take charge of the sell