Firstly, i gotta be honest here.... My opinion may come as a shock to you, but i do not push drugs onto people, nor tell them to take them if they have never had them before, yet some people will read this post and think that i do.
There's several ways that i could come at this topic, you see the first thing i should point out here is that yes, i believe drugs should be legal.
Here's a few reasons why....
People do already take them.
This is something that some people find hard to digest, they think that if you make drugs legal, then you would have all these millions of people taking them, i hate to break it to you, but drugs are already taken by millions of people, yet because not all of them speak openly about doing so, no one can blame you for thinking that not many people do take drugs.
The sale of drugs, could save the economy.
It's true to be said, that here in the uk, we have reached a double dip recession, ok, not by loads, but its bad news for many. We still have many big name brands that are going under on an almost weekly basis now, where as the first time the recession hit, it was daily for a while. So how can the drugs save the economy?
Well as it stands, the cost of living has risen for many reasons, but mainly because the amount of tax we have to pay on items has gone up. Now if taxed, the sale of drugs, even controlled, could bring in extra money for the government, meaning they could adjust budgets accordingly, and bring down tax on other things.
We really do need to face facts here, that if people will continue to take drugs, the government are missing out on an extra income during a time when they can't afford to do so.
The problem would not get worse than it is now.
People worry too much about this, about how if drugs become legal then more people are going to take them, this isn't true.... All's that would happen is that people would be more vocal about taking them, which should be the way its done anyway. You see many many moon's ago, when they were talking about making drinking alcohol legal, alot of people were against it, because it was a taboo subject, same as taking drugs are these days!
But please dont base your morals on how the government should and shouldn't make its money. The government currently make about £3 in tax per a pack of 20 cigarettes, these can kill people, proven fact. The government make alot of money from the sale of alcohol, again, this can lead to deaths. So if people are going to die from taking drugs anyway, whats the point in not making money off this?
Classification is wrong as it stands.
You see now many people believe that alcohol is illigal because it isn't as harmful as canabis for example, but did you know that it has been proven that alcohol is infact worse than some of your commonly known illigal drugs?
Infact about 2 years ago, a top government advisor was sacked because he produced a chart showing that alchol should actually be a C rated drug - or something like that. Placing alcohol over many illigal drugs.
Moving on.... Because like i say, this list could go on for ages and i really cant be botherd typing it all out, but here's how the sale of drugs could go....
If you could have it sold in a pharmacy, either high street or not, then you encourage business to be growing, because it's an extra income for that store or chain. These people could ensure that people are over the age of 18 or whatever, where as currently, the sale of alcohol isn't, because alot of people who own a license to sell alcohol never check anyone's ID.
It would cut down on this black market which drugs have around them. There wouldn't be as many death's around the sale of drugs because they would be going to these shops where it is proper drugs, none of this "Buy it but don't actually know whats in it" sort of situation.
How would taxing the drugs industry work? Well, this would be down to the government to buy in these drugs, now they could buy in bulk (Alot more than your adv dealer could these days) meaning that they get it at a much lower rate than your adv drug dealer. Even after tax, you know that people wouldn't be paying much more than they are doing at the moment.
There would be no owing money to these shops, nor would they come after you if you did, but you know the main thing to change? People would be more free to talk about what theyre taking, meaning it would be more acceptable within society for them to go and get help etc.
Below, you can comment and i urge you to do so, put down your reason as to why drugs should / shouldnt be made legal. I bet you can't find a reason which i can't justify and with proof.
Thanks for reading.
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