Why Don’t We Just Legalize Drugs So the Drug Cartel Will Go Away?
Question by Abraham: Why don’t we just legalize drugs so the Drug Cartel will go away?
That’s why there’s so many illegal aliens. We get rid of the Cartel,Mexico will probably become a first world nation,and all the illegal immigrants will go back home. Entiendes ? Pinches pendejos!
Best answer:
Answer by Pinkie
Recently a number of politicians, professors and intellectual have advanced the idea of legalizing all drugs, including cocaine, heroin and LSD.
Their reasoning goes something like this: “We haven’t stopped the flow of drugs so far. By keeping them illegal, we allow enormous sums of money to a
criminal underworld. Let’s have the government sell the drugs so the underworld will be out of business, and the government will make the money instead. Moreover, if we legalize drugs, we can control their use.”
On the surface, it seems logical enough. Unfortunately, their proposal overlooks several critical points:
* Current efforts at stopping the drug flow have been ineffective because we’re outmanned. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has a budget that is about 1/200th that of the drug smugglers! Local law enforcers are working against even worse odds. And of course, the people who do get busted don’t seem to spend much time off the street. Let’s not concede the war on drugs until we’ve actually taken our gloves off and fought it.
* Easy access to these drugs will have dire consequences to society. The two addictive substances that are presently legal – alcohol and tobacco – are responsible for nearly a half million deaths annually. Cocaine, hazardous as it is, killed less than 5,000 people last year. If we decriminalize the stuff, people will use more of it, and in time, the death toll for cocaine will approach that of alcohol and tobacco. Do we really want that?
* Legalizing drugs won’t make them any more controllable. Alcohol is legal and yet we can’t keep it out of the hands of teenagers. Tobacco is legal and as a consequence, most people who smoke began before their 14th birthday. If the drugs are being heavily used despite present efforts at making them unavailable, imagine what will happen if they become cheap and legal.
Since most illegal drugs are used by people who are addicted to them, help treatment should be made available – or in some cases mandatory. Unfortunately, our government-funded addiction treatment programs have thousands on their waiting lists while access to private rehabs is excluded by many insurance plans. The surest way to reduce drug compensation is to help get people into recovery from their addiction! To do this, we need quality treatment programs.
The law has to get tougher on both the user and supplier. Confiscate the cars of the people caught purchasing the stuff. Let the dealers make restitution by paying for the treatment of all the people they helped to addict. And let’s provide more drug rehabilitation services in the prisons so that prison sentences aren’t just time on ice.
Finally, every capable member of the community needs to find a way to become part of the solution to this problem. Physicians, clergy, teachers and lawyers should become knowledgeable about addiction so they can make a difference in the lives of the addicts who come to them. Businesses and labor groups need to be more aggressive in addressing the problem of addiction at all levels of the workforce. And each of us has to examine our use of chemicals – legal and illegal – for the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the sons.*
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