Drug Legalization
Will the legalization of certain drugs reduce the crime rate in the United States? ... For this particular paper, I found some research that looked at the legalization of marijuana in the United States, and I think for all intensive purposes, it is the best drug to discuss in respect to legalization anyway. ... It is entitled “Is the debate a Smoke Screen for Movement Toward Legalization. ... The author believes that the nationally televised sitcom endorsed a drug that has not been accepted by the FDA yet and that the event may be a foreshadowing of the future of the drug in our country. ... The author believes that before the US legalizes the drug, that they should look at another country’s experiences with crime where the drug is legal. ... ” Whether or not these statistics can be proven to be due to the legalization of marijuana is hard to prove, but they definitely make one think about it. ... ” Although there are flaws on both sides of the dispute, one of the strongest points to the anti-legalization movement is the argument that marijuana is a gateway drug which leads to the use of harder, more addictive drugs.