"In the 1920's, alcohol was made illegal by Prohibition. The result: Organized Crime. Criminals jumped at the chance to supply the demand for liquor. The streets became battlegrounds. The criminals bought off law enforcement and judges. Adulterated booze blinded and killed people. Civil rights were trampled in the hopeless attempt to keep people from drinking" Sound familiar? It's very true when people say that history repeats itself. Now drugs, which are currently illegal, have raised the same problems as alcohol did when it was prohibited. However, it is safe to say that drugs have taken this country by force, and that it's effects on society are much more harsh than alcohol. It is also "probably safe to say that prohibition resulted in more people dri

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nking than ever before, including many children and many who were poisoned by bad booze" .

However, there are those that strongly disagree with the legalization theory, and think that it advocates drug use to this society. "Legalization sends the societal message of public approval, eroding the anti-drugs attitudes of our youth and encouraging them to try and use illegal drugs. What we need to do is the reverse-establishing the unequivocal message that our public behavior standard and social norm is 'no-use,' continuously reinforced through the attitudes of harm/risk and social disapproval that are prevent inhibitors to our youth trying and using these substances". Which is exactly what we have been doing since we realized that drugs were a problem, especially among the youth in society. So far the "no-use" method has proved that it is not effective, in the sense that use and abuse rates among youths have been on the rise this entire decade. In reality, most kids or young adults begin to experiment with drugs to get a sense of rebellion in the first place. "The legalization of drugs will remove the thrill of breaking the law and the incentive to get 'hooked'; it will end the suffering caused by un-metered doses, impurities, substitutes, and substandard paraphernalia". "Some Americans will always use alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, or other drugs. Most are not addicts, they are social drinkers or occasional users. Legal drugs would be inexpensive, so even addicts could support their habits with honest work, rather than by crime. Organized crime would be deprived of its profits. The police could return to protecting us from the real criminals; and there would be room enough in existing prisons for them".

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