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Should Drugs beLegalized?
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FIRST: FREEDOM
1. Taking drugs is an individual's choice.
2.Those who want to use drugs do so even if
they are illegal.
3. State like dictatorship.
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Others unhealthy habits are not prohibited
If you are going to punish drug users simply because it is unhealthy
then you need to punish
1. Mac Donals and Burger King fast food 2. Not exercising
Fatty foods
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There are other products such as alcohol and tobacco; ridiculous
reality shows, Internet addiction also cause damage and are legal.
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Internet addiction
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Second: The prohibition didnt
work and doesnt work
Do you remember?
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1. The underworld became big business in
the United States when alcohol was
prohibited.
2.Legalizing drugs would eliminate
this huge income source from
under organized crime.
3. Resources used in the fight against
drugs could be used in education.
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And what is the worst aspect of this prohibition?
Generations of young people havebeen introduced to criminality
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1. More crime than ever before!
What are the effects of the Prohibition of
Drugs after 40 years plus of prohibition?
3. More addicts than ever before!
2. More anti social behaviour than ever before!
4. More drug related deaths than ever before!
5. More addicts than ever before!
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Opium production in Afghanistan, 1980-2005.
Based on United Nations data
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1. Classify drugs
The solution to the War on Drugs is so obvious :
Legalization . But, How?
2. Legaly age
3. TreatAddiction as an illness
4. Make it illegal for anyone to supply drugs to minors
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5. Tax drugs will be used training in schools,
medical/pharmaceutical
6. Impose harsh penalties (large fines, community
service and imprisonment) on anyone who causesharm to anyone else while under the influence of
drugs
7. Re-education and community service (a
substantial amount of it-like 2 years)
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8. Legalization should be done in steps.
9. For new drugs we need to provide
users with good information so they
dont kill themselves.
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The War on Drugs Is a Failure
Leaders call for legalizing drugs
Open Letter to UN Secretary General
KofiAnnan, June 1, 1998
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Fourth: Legalizing Drugs Will
Reduce organizedCrime
1. Drug trafficking is a millionaire business
2. It puts production and sales in control of governments
instead of guerrillas and dealers.
3. Drug legalization would free up police resources to fight
non-drug related crimes against people and property.
4.The Drug-related crime goes away if the business is legitimized
5.Availability to minors
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Fifth: Legal drugs would be safer.
Legalization is a consumer protection
issue.
2. Use could be monitored by medical professionals depending
upon the drug.
1. Today's drug consumer literally doesn't know what he's buying.
3. Guaranteed levels of purity
4. Pharmaceutical prescription: EVERY TIMEYOU USEIT
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Excise Taxes on Drugs1.Would decrease supply of the drug ( excise tax is an additional
cost of production)
2. Level of tax should be correlated with the drugs harmful
public health effects
3. Decrease in supply caused by excise tax causes an increase in
drugs price and a decrease in its use
4. Revenues from excise tax could be earmarked for treatment
and education programs
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Sixht: Legalization would
stabilize foreign countries and
make them safer for residents andtravelers.
1. Reduce corruption of officials.
2. Legalizing drugs would make our streets and homes safer.
3.Unclog the court system.3.Unclog the court system.
4. End prison overcrowding.
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Legalization of Other Victimless Crimes
1. Economic analysis of legalization of drugs canalso be applied to other so-called victimless crimes
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Robbery, burglary,
2. Equilibrium quantity would undoubtedly
increase with legalization, but regulation and
taxation for regulatory purposes might well be
more efficient than prohibition
But social issues related to legalization may outweigh economic
issues
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Regulation through Economic Policies
Economists who favor drug legalization ordecriminalization often argue:
Greater percentage of government expenditureson drug-related programs should be directed
toward demand-side treatment and education
programs
System of excise taxes (tax applied to purchase
of a specific good or service) can be levied on
legal drugs
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Sixth:Legalization would slow the
spread ofAIDS and other diseases.
1. Legalizing drugs would eliminate the
motivation to restrict the sale of hypodermic
needles
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Harvard economics professor Jeffrey
Jeffrey Miron on CNN discussing Marijuana Legalization
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Legalize Drugs to Save Our Lives
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PROBLEM
what are all of the drug cartels and
other organized crime groups going
to do when drugs are legalized?
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