Teens_And_Drugs

Teens And Drugs Is Legalization A Realistic Alternative To The War On Drugs' For years, the issue of legalization has been an increasingly controversial subject. Millions of dollars are spent annually in the War on Drugs causing many to wonder if this fight is cost-effective or if an alternative such as legalization would be more realistic than current efforts in drug prevention. Opponents state that with legalization would come an increase not only in availability, but also with everything associated with that availability. This includes suffering of users and their loved ones, death of users and innocent alike, increases in health-care costs, cost to employers, drug-related crimes, and increases in various other social, economic, and emotional costs. On the other hand, advocates argue it is pointless to continue to ignore the presence of drugs in society. They feel society must acknowledge the now-illegal narcotics as it has with alcohol and tobacco. Legalization would result in purity assurance, labeled concentration of the product, obliteration of pushers, obliteration of drug crime, savings in expensive enforcement, and significant tax revenues. Both sides of the controversy are confident with the credibility and effectiveness of their respective arguments, making it necessary for society to ask itself whether legalization of legalization, drugs, drug, narcotics, alcohol, users, crime, increase, tobacco, cocaine, society, prohibition, illegal, states, advocates, while, war, legal, abuse, marijuana, heroin, under, result, people, one, effects, crimes, costs, inciardi, addicts, evidence, united, three, san, proponents, making