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The issue of whether to decriminalize drugs or not is a controversial topic. There are many different ways to reform the drug war in the United States including making punishments harsher for drug offenders or making drugs legal. Drugs should become legal because it will create less taxes for citizens, lower drug related arrests, lower prison populations, create a purer drug, and lower the death rate. During the prohibition era, the government did not have …

…not drug abuse that creates these problems, but the way the United States Deals with the drug war. The Drug War is a war the United States cannot win and must be reformed or the problems will grow and grow. Drug abuse should be treated as a medical condition, not criminal. Lower taxes, lowered prison population, and less deaths-isn’t this what America strives for? The end of the drug war will do just this.