Why Hard Drugs Should be Legalised

The drugs are available – free of charge. The addict would be far too “cabbaged” to go mugging, house breaking or shoplifting.

A further benefit would be that about half of these people would take up drugs counselling and would actually come off drugs. The “shame” of being a drug addict would be removed and so they would no longer live their lives in the underground but in the open, with a chance of becoming part of wider society.

And then the supplier to the junkie. Remember the respectable bloke that you wouldn’t mind for your next neighbour? Except if he’s caught he gets a criminal record, loses his wife and family, his house, his job. Probably then takes drugs to counter his depression and becomes a junkie who then goes out mugging old ladies and breaking into houses.

But then there’s the people in the supply network above your likeable bloke in the pub. And the people above them. And above them.

They would all become redundant if hard drugs became legal. All the way up to the people that organise this evil trade.

Admittedly, there would still be other “lines” for the organised crime moguls to profit from. However, the people they recruit into certain parts of their networks would no longer be as easily available. We all know that a large number of prostitutes are drug addicts and therefore dependant upon the drug lords – they have to sell their bodies to make money to pay the drug barons for the drugs they depend on.

Again, if these ladies could get their drugs from the local branch of Lloyd’s Pharmacy then they would not be dependant upon the drugs barons to provide “protection” for their activities.

The argument here, as I am sure you can guess, is to remove hard drugs away from the criminal element and provide them as a treatment to those that need them. Take the drugs away from the criminals and you take away their customers – and no customers would make their endeavours fruitless.