Essay on Legalizing Drugs or Joining the Drug Addict Circle

Over the years, drug abuse has been a rising problem in almost every country in the world. Day by day more people are involved in this endless cycle of drug craving, money shortage, and drug related crimes. Congressmen and politicians of United States, seeing this unstoppable crime wave which is about to spread throughout the country, begin to address various kinds of possible solutions to end this crisis in the most efficient and effective way. As discussed in Alan M. Dershowitzs The Case for Medicalizing Heroin and Charles B. Rangels Legalize Drugs? Not on Your Life, the most popular proposition set forward by growing number of leaders now is to legalize the use of drugs; but will it help solving the problem or make it even worse?†¦show more content†¦He even goes further to suggest the possibility of considering legalizing other drugs if the result of experiment turns out to be positive. But is everything as simple as Dershowitz and other advocates of legalization think? If drugs are legalized in real life, will we be able to see improvements or deterioration? All the arguments Dershowitz make seem reasonable from the surface, but if you take a step back and think it through, legalization is not a simple task as Dershowitz thinks it is; and there is a big chance that it might bring up more problems than there already is. In order to make it work, numerous decisions have to be made beforehand and the government has to make sure they always have everything in control; because once things started to get out of hand, it will be too late for any damage control. Moreover, teenage addicts are not likely to quit their addiction just because they cannot get it legally; they can either buy it from drug dealers who always find a way to access to the drugs no matter what or they can ask adults to buy it for them. Also, the black market is not going to be out of business if drugs are legalized; instead, they would have more buyers than they did before the legalization since purchasing drugs is no longer