Legalisation of Some Drugs

In this report the legalisation of some drugs is the main topic. The legalisation of some drugs can be a beneficial to some and very bad for others. The legalisation of some drugs can be a legal issue.

One particular article from the www.cnn.com say “legalise drugs to stop violence”. Economist Jeffrey Miron says legalising drugs would greatly reduce violence. A quote from the article, “Prohibition creates violence because it drives the drug market underground. This means buyers and sellers cannot resolve their disputes with lawsuits, arbitration or advertising, so they resort to violence instead”. In summarised words he thinks that prohibiting drugs will cause violence. In the article it also says prohibition of drugs corrupts politicians and law enforcement. Forbidding drugs can result in helping terrorists who sell protection to protect drug traffickers. Also forbidding can hurt the public health. 

The federal government and local government spend around $44 billion per year to enforce drug prohibition, and these same government can get roughly $33 billion per year in tax if they legalise drugs, but this is only assuming these tax rates are similar to those on alcohol and tobacco. And under prohibition, these revenues accrue to traffickers as increased profits. So therefore the right policy is to legalise drugs while using regulation and taxation to make irresponsible behavior related to drug usage less stronger. Then is goes on about how this makes more sense than prohibition because it avoids the creation of the black market. This also approach will also allow hose who believe they will benefit from 

A lot of drugs help the sick for example people who suffer from cancer, glaucoma and lots of other conditions cannot use marijuana under the laws of the federal government. People who use drugs face the restriction on clean syringes that cause them to share contaminated needles, thereby spreading HIV, hepatitis and other blood-bourne diseases. What forbidding drugs does is create disrespect for the law. Here are a couple of main points, Jeffrey Miron says thousands have been killed in Mexico’s ongoing drug war, he also says U.S. drug policy leads to corruption of politicians and law enforcement. Jeffrey also says legalising drugs is the best way to reduce drug violence, and drugs should be controlled through regulation and taxation. All of the above is from an article called “Legalize drugs to stop violence” and it is an American article.