Should Drugs Be Legalized

Should drugs be leagalized What if a drugstore actually sold drugs? No, not aspirin and Prozac but actual narcotics such as Marijuana, Cocaine and Heroine. What if when an individual turns eighteen or twenty-one he or she would now be able to vote and purchase not only cigarettes and alcohol but narcotics also? If this happened society would not deteriorate but, on the contrary, many of its present day problems would be solved. The war …

…gal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. The United States can not afford this problem. It has become a world power by strengthening its people not by killing them. Drug abuse has gotten worse, with its effects on crack babies, drug addicts, and the I.V user. There must be education for the survival of this nation, not legalization.