Another view on drugs is that if drugs were legalized there would be an increase in the amount of drug addicts and that crime related to drugs would not end. There would be an increase in drug addicts because the drugs that are now illegal would be more assessable and would decrease in price. As a result there would be an increase on welfare costs and an increase in unproductive citizens. Increasing the amount of drug addicts increases the amount we spend on welfare because drug addicts typically do not have a stable job making them unproductive members of society. For instance if we make drugs legal drug addicts will not all of a sudden become productive citizens of society. Not only will legalizing drugs not decrease the amount of unproductive
