Legalizing Recreational Drugs

A volunteer(a) drug is categorized as any substance with pharmacologic effects that is either taken voluntarily for personal pleasure, or for satisfaction rather than for medicinal purposes such as cocaine, marijuana, or ecstasy. These types of drugs argon easily found and argon personad by more than 22 million Americans ages 12 and older closely nine percent of the U. S. population. If these types of drugs were to be made legal, a positive change in the economy would be the ultimate outcome.In 1961, the United Nations implemented an inter body political treaty that limited drug roduction and trafficking. The war on drugs, a term that was created by Richard Nixon a decade later, in reference to said treaty, has been going on for over fifty years now. The master copy objective of the war on drugs was to expel all recreational drugs from the sphere making all of them illegal. However Just like prohibition in 1920, the establishment of these laws were to save the nation from the problems the substance(s) created.However, also like the prohibition of 1920, the laws only served o create and support organized crime and has do little to effect the publics usage of the substance(s). The U. S. currently has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The bulk of those imprisoned are due to drug-related crimes. The illegal drug trade has been introducing children and teens toa life of crime. They notice that the minimum wages they would legally live from their unskilled labor at the local Burger King, is far from what they could earn buying and selling illegal drugs.By the period children nd teenagers leave high school, most of these students have committed a criminal act by using recreational drugs. These drugs are used every day and widely available, people see happy chance the law as nothing more than playful mischief therefore, undermining our laws authority. In contrast to the spiraling ineffectiveness of the U. S. governments original approach to contr olling the issue of recreational drugs, another(prenominal) countries like New Zealand and Ireland have taken on a new outlook on the matter.Instead of outlawing he use of recreational drugs, they have decided to do extensive research on these drugs, in effect making sure that they are safe for the publics consumption. They are conducting clinical tests to prove that their products are safe Just like new medicine would be well-tried in the market. If our government would go along with this new radical movement and legalized recreational drugs, like these other countries, they would no longer have a war on drugs. The money spent on inmates in Jails would be greatly reduced since we are not arresting people for drug use.Police can use the time currently monopolized on getting drugs off the street for other, more pressing crimes. Schools could teach their students just about wise drug usage instead of implementing scare tactics. Tactics such as videos and statistics about drug abuse and its consequences that will only tell you to never purchase or use them are obviously in effective that Just leads to ignorant abuse in the future. All legalized drugs can be interchange by trust worthy companies instead of fellow schoolmates or sketchy street dealers.These drugs can be bought legally, by someone of government consented age, in proper packages witn appropriate warning labels similar to the way that cigarettes and inebriant are. In conclusion, legalizing recreational drugs goes far beyond right and wrong if you look at the issue in a practical manner. The problem of illegal recreational drugs has only been increasing with time. The current policies in egress are Just not working. A new, radical approach could be the ultimate solution to the U. S. governments acclivitous battle. After all, the legalizing has already begun, hasnt it?