Drug Use California: Drug Use Is a Problem
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, drugs were popular, if not encouraged. That was a day and age where it was still cool to smoke cigarettes and some doctors were still encouraging smoking cigarettes because it was good for one’s health. It seems like there wasn’t a care in the world. Images of Woodstock still float around in many of our heads today. However, drug use is viewed much differently today than it was back then.
Today, drug use causes all sorts of problems. As the population has grown over the years, so has drug use as well as the increased number of negative incidents associated with its use. So, how do we curtail drug use? More so, what is causing drug use to be ever present in today’s society? While we have laws in place as well as police officers to help enforce that law, people who are now addicted to drugs are finding a multitude of ways around the law so that they can go on their drug binges.
Some would argue that marijuana is the gateway drug that leads to other drug use. In places like California, marijuana has been legalized for specific groups of people with medical problems. As it turns out, marijuana is said to have medicinal qualities that help to alleviate pain and discomfort for people or patients who are suffering from major medical maladies. But is it still being abused? Yes. I remember (vividly) hearing stories being told in the open about how person X was growing marijuana in their backyard. Police officers are constantly confiscating marijuana from teenagers and older adults who should know better. The fear with those who use drugs is the unintended consequences that it will have on others around them who are doing nothing wrong.
This brings up the controversial question, “If drug use didn’t cause harm to others, would it then be OK to legalize it everywhere?” Economist, Milton Friedman was a strong advocate of legalizing drug use because he reasoned that the reason we have such high crime rates is due to the very fact that drugs are illegal in the first place. He went on further to state that by decriminalizing drugs, it would in essence make things better because drug lords wouldn’t be able to sell drugs at higher rates because suddenly supply would go up. The reason that crime is high is because people who use drugs go to extremes to avoid the police as well as to get the best bargains they can for some drugs that are costly.
The fact of the matter is that drugs aren’t going away anytime soon. Sooner or later, something will have to be done to get a better handle of the drug situation. Perhaps decriminalizing drugs is the answer; perhaps it is not. Keep in mind the fact that each day someone is born into a life of drugs and crime while someone else is dying because of it. The facts are sobering enough to warrant some sort of change.
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24 Responses to Drug Use California: Drug Use Is a Problem
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pot is a natural drug grown from a seed…whens the? last time anyone planted an ecstasy or meth seed???????
wake up and smell? the marijuana
when they say 60% in methamphetamine,? i think it is because of kids selling adderall(amphetamine), i think that counts doesn’t it?
Fuck you pot is? safe!!!
We don’t want x or meth like? all the junkies out there. We don’t care. We just want the pot.
on marijuana hopefully?
I see were you’re coming from. But we clearly have different views? on the role of government.
It’s better for the government to profit from addictive drugs than companies, because the money can be re-invested into paying for the effect on society. If the government benefits form taxing drugs,? then so does everybody else. I wouldn’t be happy with other businesses being taxed on their profits, and companies producing harmful substances not to be. That would be very unfair. As for regulation, there is a demand, but we should still regulate as we do any drug/medicine to keep the public safe
I think that it would be very inappropriate for the government to tax substances wich are highly addicting. I wouldn’t want the government to tax substances at all. It just doesn’t seem like a legitimate role for? the government to have. Let’s say that you’re an anarchist for instance, and lets say that you are addicted to a substance, that way the gov. benefits from his addiction Wich I say is immoral. We wouldn’t need regulation either because there all ready is a demand for safe drugs.
I? disagree, we need to regulate it thouraly so that anything you buy won’t be contaminated and so that it can be as safe as possible. Also, we need to tax it to the point where we can cover the cost to society, plus extra so we can fund other things as well, like schools and hospitals etc. We can’t stop people from selling/buying drugs, so we can at least tax the life out of people who are selling it.
No, the answer is:
1. Legalize
2.? Let the market take care of the rest.
even better!!?
1. Legalize
2.? Regulate
3. Tax
4. Educate
nah it isn’t, if it the price was that much deflated there wouldn’t be as much? crime, period.
methylone, alcohol, 2c-b
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11 people who? watched this are DEA agents!
4:14? – nuclear war on ecstasy … LMAO!!!
Its? true. I smoke alot of weed and weed only. More and more kids in my school and grade are ding retarded shit like ecstasy and acid and they are 15. Im a sophmore and these are kids in my grade doing this shit its retarded
fuck? you
WEED AIN’T A FUCKING DRUG, IT’S A PLANT FUCK YOU LEGALIZE IT.?
why ecstasy went up = dubstep maybe??
who the fuck writes your captions??
or if you are going to be very soon :)?
Drug? use ALWAYS goes up in bad economic times. Duh. People are poor and feel bad so of course some turn to drugs.