FREE ESSAY ON WAR ON DRUGS

WAR ON DRUGS

This is supposed to be a free country. I don't see that it would harm you
or anybody else if someone smokes a few joints a week in moderation. What is the harm
done to you? Is this enough to take fathers and mothers away from children? I know I'm
not the sharpest knife in the draw but to say that drug users might abuse the stuff and
cause problems for their family or neighbors is not very far from saying that because
you
have a knife in your kitchen draw that you might choose to use it to cause trouble for
you
family or neighbors. Please tell me, by what reason should marijuana be illegal and
please
speak from first hand experience if you can. Isn't twenty years of doing the same thing
long enough? Isn't it time to step back, gather accurate information and objectively
consider alternatives? Wasn't there an objective once? Distinguish between soft and hard
drugs like Holland did and reduce actual drug crime by 75%, actual crime, not just
prohibition violations. Treat addiction as a health problem, instead of a crime-just
like
alcohol is treated-and you reduce HIV infection and decrease the costs to society. I am
a very opened minded person and have listened to a lot of opinions and read a lot of
articles on this subject. It seems that anything we find that stimulates us or alters our
state
of mind in some way is a stamped as a drug. How can we take something like cocaine,
which is so addictive some people have to go to a hospital to get off it and many people
have died from overdoses, and put it in the same catagorize as marijuana, a part of a
plant which nobody has ever overdosed from. From my perspective, the government has
no reason to make marijuana illegal, except that it acts as a stitch. I will get to that
in a
minute. If it were legal, I really doubt we would have as much drug dealing and drug
deal
related deaths and crimes. It could be treated like alcohol, same rules, maybe more, but
we could have an age limit and everything. (Its (marijuana) defiantly much safer than
alcohol I don't know anybody in the right mind who could argue with that. Alcohol is one
of the biggest killers in the world, who do you ever here on the news dying of marijuana
use? Sure it may cause long cancer, but you can eat it too. Sure somebody might be too
high to drive but make rules against it. Its too bad we couldn't replace alcohol with
marijuana. I would much rather see people in my family as well as my parents smoke pot
than drink alcohol. I could go on and on with this forever. You probably are getting the
impression that I am a pot head but believe me I am not. This subject just irritates me
how we can serve alcohol which makes people violent and go home and beat their wives
in front of their kids but the government can't sell a part of a plant that makes people
at
ease. I feel I'm getting off subject so I'm gonna get back to my point. But, if it were
legal,
a lot of marijuana dealers who base most or all of their business on marijuana would
turn
to other drugs such as crack to base their business upon. That is what I mean by the
stitch. Because we all know how crack changed the inner cities of America. Crack
definitely increase the number of street gangs, deaths, and crimes of all kinds in this
country and we all know crack is made from cocaine. So what I am saying, is that
instead of trying to shoot at all drugs at once, only go after cocaine. Forget
marijuana,
make it legal, the government sure made a profit from cigarettes and alcohol. Make a
profit from marijuana. Use the profits to fight the war on cocaine and heroin. Because
you know when the cocaine supply is weakening, so is the crack. Most of the crack sold
on our streets is made inside our country by dealers who buy the cocaine that comes
from outside the country. But when the cocaine supply is dying down, heroin is going to
take over so that's why we have to fight that too. It's the hardcore drugs that ruin our
society, not marijuana. Sure there are many other drugs that are addictive, and we need
to separate hardcore life destroying drugs from the recreational not so addictive drugs.
We need to take things one step at a time. If you're a thief you can't steel everything
in
the store at once, you gotta take what you want most and work on getting that. (I know
that's a terrible example but I think it's a good one to get my point across). There are
many drugs that are used for many reasons. We need to sort through the good (at least
not so bad), bad, and ugly and make zero tolerance for the bad and ugly, and really
reconsider the good (referring to marijuana). I think reconsidering some laws and
opening our minds and putting our brains to work a little harder on this whole issue
will
get us the results a lot quicker and cheaper than what we are doing about the problem
right now.