During the prohibition era, the government did not have control over alcohol, the mafia did. With the illegality of alcohol by the 18th amendment, the mafia could produce liquor and therefore had considerable control over those who wanted their substance and service. Judges and law enforcement officers were bought off so the supply of liquor could continue. The 21st amendment legalized alcohol once again. When this amendment passed, the gangs that supplied the alcohol during prohibition were no more because alcohol was legal (libertarian issues). The 21st amendment should also legalize drugs because with the legalization of drugs a decrease in homicides related to drug deals would occur and also the price would lessen because bigger businesses could produce drugs at a cheaper price, thus reducing crimes that are committed

As concluded that the prohibition of drugs is a faulty turn to the "war on drugs", illegal drugs force people into contact with professional criminals, encouraged gang warfare and drug deal related homicides, resulted in people taking impure mixtures in often dangerous methods, and created heavy policing costs and overpopulated prisons and prisons costs. It is 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.

Less than 20% of all inmates in state prisons are drug offenders (Statistical Abstract of the United States No. 383). If the 13.6 million illicit drug users in the United States now are combined with all the inmates who are drug offenders of non-violent charges, that will equal a very big income from taxes for the federal government if they are set free. The average cost in 1997 to incarcerate a federal inmate was $23,000. As stated above, 59% of all federal inmates are drug offenders and to feed, clothe

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