Models Of Decriminalizing Drugs

After some thought, choosing the decriminalization model because this is a model compromised between legalization and prohibition. After many years of waging war on drugs, I do not see us really getting anywhere. By placing someone found in possession of more than a week’s supply of any type of drug such as marijuana to cocaine, the person would deal with an accelerated rehabilitative disposition as in a special intervention type program and calling it the mediation group comprised of a lawyer, a doctor and a social worker. This group could recommend treatment as well as present any minor fines. The main lesson to learn from decriminalizing drug doesn’t necessarily lead to disaster, and it does free up resources for more effective responses …show more content…
The cost of legalizing drugs could very well increase the addiction and induce others to try. Harm reduction shifts the focus away from the legal status of drugs to policies and similar to medicalization of prescribing drugs to addicts. The drug use will never be totally eliminated and the negative impact would increase the cost of healthcare. Reduction of harm of harsh criminal sections linked to criminalization of users, coupling with a public health focus on policies that advocate harm reduction to decrease the adverse consequences often associated with the drug use. Legalizing drugs will bring one of the nation’s largest cash crops under the rule of the law. This would create jobs and economic opportunities in the formal economy instead of the illicit markets. Those who criminalize the drugs are more likely to suffer a social consequences related to the crime such as negative employment. Although many medical marijuana policy conflict with one another in notable ways, most are firmly controlled and regulated programs by the state department of public health. Prolonged drug operations could last several months in order to track down the larger target and most likely deal with police corruption. Prescription drugs could be the cure and remedy for life threatening conditions …show more content…
State and local governments would acquire significant new sources of tax revenue from regulating the drug sales. Drug testing is becoming a standard requirement. This would mean consumers are better informed about the drugs they use. Decriminalization might go hand in hand with tighter regulation of drugs and alcohol which most Americans really want the ability to live in a community they feel comfortable in. It has been proven the prohibition does not reduce usage where people want access to it. Legalizing drugs at least allows regulation for quality and potency and allows tracking of results. Fewer people will die of bad drugs. The con is people will become addicted and it will damage lives and families. If there are funds for remediation, the families could be salvaged. Those who try drugs that they could not get, the attraction is minimized. Drugs are illegal right now and it does not stop anyone from getting them. So this becomes hard to imagine how things would be any worse. Things might improve a lot or maybe a little or even not at all, however outcomes are extremely unlikely to be worse with a full drug decriminalization. There would be some increase of drug use but the effect would not be as much as some think. Although, there would be fewer people in jail for drugs and governments would spend less money on incarceration.