Through monopolising drugs cartels, infringing human rights, draining tax payer’s money and increasing incarceration rates, governments and policymaker’s have dug society into a deep, dark hole. It doesn’t have to be this way though; legalisation of all drugs would completely shift the paradigm. The problem with this is that people are conditioned to believe that drugs are bad for you and should therefore be illegal. I agree, many drugs are bad for you however the predisposition that prohibition decreases usage is utterly wrong. Rather than draining trillions of government funding into an already failed war, we should be selling all drugs as legal commodities in which supply can be regulated and tracked. The economic benefit of this could be spent toward drug education and rehabilitation programmes. For the betterment of our society, it is crucial we begin to treat drugs not as a criminal issue, but a health
Through monopolising drugs cartels, infringing human rights, draining tax payer’s money and increasing incarceration rates, governments and policymaker’s have dug society into a deep, dark hole. It doesn’t have to be this way though; legalisation of all drugs would completely shift the paradigm. The problem with this is that people are conditioned to believe that drugs are bad for you and should therefore be illegal. I agree, many drugs are bad for you however the predisposition that prohibition decreases usage is utterly wrong. Rather than draining trillions of government funding into an already failed war, we should be selling all drugs as legal commodities in which supply can be regulated and tracked. The economic benefit of this could be spent toward drug education and rehabilitation programmes. For the betterment of our society, it is crucial we begin to treat drugs not as a criminal issue, but a health