Should drugs be legalized?

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Should Drugs beLegalized?


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FIRST: FREEDOM

1. Taking drugs is an individual's choice.

2.Those who want to use drugs do so even if

they are illegal.

3. State like dictatorship.


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Others unhealthy habits are not prohibited

If you are going to punish drug users simply because it is unhealthy

then you need to punish

1. Mac Donals and Burger King fast food 2. Not exercising

Fatty foods


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There are other products such as alcohol and tobacco; ridiculous

reality shows, Internet addiction also cause damage and are legal.


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Internet addiction


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Second: The prohibition didnt

work and doesnt work

Do you remember?


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1. The underworld became big business in

the United States when alcohol was

prohibited.

2.Legalizing drugs would eliminate

this huge income source from

under organized crime.

3. Resources used in the fight against

drugs could be used in education.


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And what is the worst aspect of this prohibition?

Generations of young people havebeen introduced to criminality


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1. More crime than ever before!

What are the effects of the Prohibition of

Drugs after 40 years plus of prohibition?

3. More addicts than ever before!

2. More anti social behaviour than ever before!

4. More drug related deaths than ever before!

5. More addicts than ever before!


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Opium production in Afghanistan, 1980-2005.

Based on United Nations data


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1. Classify drugs

The solution to the War on Drugs is so obvious :

Legalization . But, How?

2. Legaly age

3. TreatAddiction as an illness

4. Make it illegal for anyone to supply drugs to minors


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5. Tax drugs will be used training in schools,

medical/pharmaceutical

6. Impose harsh penalties (large fines, community

service and imprisonment) on anyone who causesharm to anyone else while under the influence of

drugs

7. Re-education and community service (a

substantial amount of it-like 2 years)


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8. Legalization should be done in steps.

9. For new drugs we need to provide

users with good information so they

dont kill themselves.


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The War on Drugs Is a Failure

Leaders call for legalizing drugs

Open Letter to UN Secretary General

KofiAnnan, June 1, 1998


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Fourth: Legalizing Drugs Will

Reduce organizedCrime

1. Drug trafficking is a millionaire business

2. It puts production and sales in control of governments

instead of guerrillas and dealers.

3. Drug legalization would free up police resources to fight

non-drug related crimes against people and property.

4.The Drug-related crime goes away if the business is legitimized

5.Availability to minors


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Fifth: Legal drugs would be safer.

Legalization is a consumer protection

issue.

2. Use could be monitored by medical professionals depending

upon the drug.

1. Today's drug consumer literally doesn't know what he's buying.

3. Guaranteed levels of purity

4. Pharmaceutical prescription: EVERY TIMEYOU USEIT


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Excise Taxes on Drugs1.Would decrease supply of the drug ( excise tax is an additional

cost of production)

2. Level of tax should be correlated with the drugs harmful

public health effects

3. Decrease in supply caused by excise tax causes an increase in

drugs price and a decrease in its use

4. Revenues from excise tax could be earmarked for treatment

and education programs


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Sixht: Legalization would

stabilize foreign countries and

make them safer for residents andtravelers.

1. Reduce corruption of officials.

2. Legalizing drugs would make our streets and homes safer.

3.Unclog the court system.3.Unclog the court system.

4. End prison overcrowding.


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Legalization of Other Victimless Crimes

1. Economic analysis of legalization of drugs canalso be applied to other so-called victimless crimes

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Robbery, burglary,

2. Equilibrium quantity would undoubtedly

increase with legalization, but regulation and

taxation for regulatory purposes might well be

more efficient than prohibition

But social issues related to legalization may outweigh economic

issues


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Regulation through Economic Policies

Economists who favor drug legalization ordecriminalization often argue:

Greater percentage of government expenditureson drug-related programs should be directed

toward demand-side treatment and education

programs

System of excise taxes (tax applied to purchase

of a specific good or service) can be levied on

legal drugs


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Sixth:Legalization would slow the

spread ofAIDS and other diseases.

1. Legalizing drugs would eliminate the

motivation to restrict the sale of hypodermic

needles


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Harvard economics professor Jeffrey

Jeffrey Miron on CNN discussing Marijuana Legalization


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Legalize Drugs to Save Our Lives


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PROBLEM

what are all of the drug cartels and

other organized crime groups going

to do when drugs are legalized?

Should drugs be legalized?

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