Better off legal or illegal?My views on ‘recreational drugs’ are that they should stay that way - what people do in privacy is up to them. The main problem however is that most people don’t keep them private (which is probably why drug-induced crimes are still committed),and so that’s when I think it starts to affect us all.
The debate as to whether it’s ‘being bad’ – well I suppose it depends on who’s using them, what they’re being for (e.g. is it so bad if they’re being used for pain relief?) and what happens as a result of the drugs being taken. In my opinion, I think there are rare occasions where drugs aren’t considered as ‘bad’ (after all isn’t this the main thing that lures teenagers to take drugs – a form of rebellion?!). I think there are far too many drugs available to kids today and it’s scary that drugs are so easy to get hold of. I can’t see how legalizing it would make any difference (e.g. 24-hour drinking attempted to reduce the flow of binge-drinkers but it hasn’t) and perhaps we should go the other way and strengthen the ban. e.g. the ‘public place’ smoking ban has shown a reduction in smoking, maybe the same would be seen if harsher punishments were given for drug crime/use?
I personally don’t see (as the site below suggests) how relaxing the laws would free up police time – surely more people taking them would mean more crime? It’s a good point about reducing crime by administering hard drugs medically but surely addicted users need help rather than just giving into their addiction (they’ll just need more and more which isn’t helpful at all!).
http://listverse.com/your-view/your-view-should-drugs-be-legalized/
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I won't agree with that drugs shouldn't be legalized, and with hasher restrictions for drug use.
legalization won't rescue drug addicts but the case are young people who will try drugs, and on us depend how it will happen. Something legal isn't so tempting as forbbiden, so kids won't do it for teenage rebel. If they even decide to smoke some weed they can do it in clean, public place, not hiding, lieing and buying 'stuff' from criminals. Furthermore, legal drugs means the end of black market, and prices would be decided by the government. If kid would have to pay 30Ł instead of 10Ł for drug he would definetly think twice before buying.
Restrictions are definetly not an answer. I know the case frome my home country where even marijuana is completely illegal. People are still doing drugs there, but they are preceived as criminals. There were few cases when teenagers were cought with 1g of mj and because of that they have criminal record for rest of their life.
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