Drugs Should NOT be Legal :: Against Legalization of Drugs

Drugs Should NOT be LegalEveryone agrees that whateverthing must be done about the tremendous physicaland emotional health worrys that dose abuse military campaigns. Concern about the abuseof do drugss is so widespread that fresh polls indicate it to be one of the closelyserious problems in todays world, threatening the security and freedom of wholenations. Politicians, health experts and much of the everyday public feel that noissue is more important than drug abuse. Americas other pressing socialproblems- disease, poverty, child abuse and neglect, and corruption- often conveya common element that is drug abuse. The use of misappropriated drugs such(prenominal) as cocaine,crack, heroin and marijuana cause extensive harm to the automobile trunk and brain. Yet,even after knowing this many people want penal drugs to be legalized in everyaspect. The last thing we need is a policy that makes widely availablesubstances that impair memory, concentration and attention couplet wh y in Godsname foster the uses of drugs that make you stupid? The operate for druglegalization is morally disgusting.The number of people who ar habituate toillegal drugs or argon users of these drugs is quite shocking. Drug abuse isunderstandably an injurious and sometimes fatal problem. The leaders of theinternational economic treetop in Paris in July 1989 concluded that thedevastating proportions of the drug problem calls for decisive action. OnSeptember 5, 1989, President Bush called upon the United States to critical point in anall-out fight against drugs. The United States Congress reports an estimated 25to 30 million addicts of illegal drugs worldwide. Not all users are addicts, butsome of the 26 million regular users of illegal drugs in the United States areaddicted. Reports of child abuse to New York social services tripled between1986 and 1988 and most of the cases involved drug abuse. Approximately 35percent of the inmates of state prison house were under the influenc e of illegal drugsat the time they committed the crimes for which they are incarcerated. In someparts of the country, that percentage is as high as 75 to 80 Another fact thathits people hard is that out-right deaths from illegal drugs have quadrupled inthe last ten courses The proportion of 19 to 22 year olds who were at risk fromusing illegal drugs go from 44 percent in 1980 to 69 percent in 1987. Among17-18 year olds the shift over the same interval was from 50 percent to 74percent (Williams 226) The abuse of illegal drugs is very threatening toAmericas future. These drugs are the cause of many problems and crimes.