n they make their busts.Another one of their views relates to drug crime. If the drug is legalized there will be no drug deals gone bad, no prostitution in order to get a "fix", and no people getting rich off of other peoples blood. There will be a lot fewer deaths in the "ghetto" each year, not to mention good neighborhoods.Another point relates to the purity of drugs. If the government legalized and regulated marijuana, it would be more likely to be pure, and if not there would be a good legal recourse. There would be no ODs not that an OD from marijuana is likely anyway. But if marijuana would be pure, with no other drugs combined, there would be fewer headaches involved in doing it.The Doctors Point of ViewDoctor Benson B. Roe, a heart surgeon at the University of California at San Francisco says illegal drugs cannot be eradicated from society. Since such drugs are no more harmful then most legal substances, he says that most illegal drugs should be legalized. As a heart surgeon Roe saw the harmful effects drugs left on the body. He believes that illegal drugs are not the evil, addictive, and poisonous substances that many people believe they are. The benefits of legalization would include drug purity assurance, reduction of drug crime, savings in law enforcement costs, plus new tax revenue. The Nixon administration studied Marijuana and found it was no worse then cigarettes.An opposing opinion is from William J. Olson, a former deputy assistant at the Department of State and now a senior fellow at the National Strategy Information Center. His opinion states that drugs create significant health problems and that use and abuse of drugs would definitely increase under legalization, resulting in an increase in the nations health care costs. Olson states the doing drugs has the same risk as playing dangerous sports, sooner or later you will get hurt.The Medical PurposesIn November 1996, California and Arizona had the opportunit...
