Billy+Gonzalez+Persuasive+Essay

Some may argue that drugs should stay illegal while others think that legalizing drugs is an obvious choice. There is no right answer to these type of questions. I feel that we should legalize drugs because we are spending too much on the War on Drugs, it's from nature like caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco at least have restrictions, and drug possession is ruining families by laws such as the Rockefeller Laws.

A reason I believe that we should legalize drugs is that The War on Drugs is taking more money than we could afford. The government keeps making budget cuts to schools instead of cutting money on the War on Drugs. [|In 2010, the U.S federal government spent over $15 billion dollars on the War on Drugs], money that we could be using to go to schools, healthcare, charities, and other things we need money for. The War on Drugs is a perfect example how the U.S tries to fix a problem by throwing money on it. We are sending so much money trying to stop drug use. Do you know how exensive a box of cigarettes is? We put a huge tax on tobacco and were making money off that. Why can't we do that to other drugs, making them but pretty expensive. Why spend money in vein and and why not use the money we could've had to things we need.

Another reason why I believe we should legalize drugs is that drugs such as Marijuana is a plant, like the cocoa bean which makes chocolate and caffeine. Both chocolate and caffeine affect your body but is still legal. The cocoa bean is grown in places such as Columbia. All of which, affects our bodies in different ways. Aspirin is legal, if you have enough, that'll be your last headache. Even Alcohol and Tobacco are legal but at an age limit. And besides Marijuana has Medical benefits. Chocolate, caffeine, and tobacco are legal and come from nature. [|But at least tobacco and alcohol have age requirement]. If you pay attention to what anti-drug commercials are sayin is that symtoms of a "drug overdose...". We all know that too much of something is bad for you. Have you ever been told not to drink juice or soda, and instead drink water? Well if you drink too much water, you can die from overhydration. Other things from nature is legal and yes they affect your body, drugs should be the same.

Another reason why I believe why we should legalize drugs is that laws like the [|Rockefeller Laws]can and will ruin families. In May of 1973, New York State governer, Nelson Rockefeller, pushed a law that severly punish people for any amount of drugs you possess to try to deter people from using drugs. I don't need to be genious to figure out that people who use drugs have their reasons for it, and for whatever that reason is/was, they shouldn't be going to jail for so long just for that. Trying to deter other people by severly punshing those who had went against the law, will ruin families because they would be going to jail for a long time for any amount of drugs in possession.

Some may argue that drugs should stay illegal because [|drug users may be become addicted]. That may be true but when people become drug addicts they will do anything to get more like steal, even from loved ones. Becoming addicted can be caused from past addictions, their childhood. There are also rehad centers to help with the addiction.

Another argument some one might make is that it affects the people around them. There was one story in which it said that a man had been maried and had a kid, and had been using drugs the whole time, the wife was interviewed and said that she had no idea he was using them. Unfortuantly i could not find a link, i saw it in the news paper.

Am I saying that the other side of the arguement must out of thier minds? No, i'm just saying my side and why i believe we should legal drugs. I arreciate that you toke the time to view my side of this arguement.