uld be guaranteed quality. They also wouldn’t have to go out searching for someone who has drugs or someone who knows how that person could get some. People would no longer have to sneak around trying to get their drugs. Lastly, people would increase the amount of drugs they intake because they will be cheaper. Their bodies will get used to the dosage that they are taking and have to take more to have the same effect. Since it will be cheaper it will just be an excuse to do it more often (Wilson 1).If we were to legalize drugs the number of users would increase dramatically (Wilson 1). According to Incardi and Saum, one of the biggest reasons for not using drugs is due to the fact that they are illegal. By making drugs legal it would entice people to go out and try them, which would make it more likely that they would become addicted (81). Wilson states that crime rates have fallen in this country and if we want them to rise up again the way we can do that is by legalizing drugs. If we reduce drugs among criminals it would help the crime rates instead of just letting them have all the supplies they wanted (3). It doesn’t matter if it is the “hard” drugs or the “soft” drugs. You can become addicted to any drug and the users don’t stop at the soft drugs but keep moving up to the hard stuff. Marijuana only increases the likeliness that someone will resort to stronger substances. Legalizing drugs would lower the prices of drugs but would increase the number of users (Wilson 7).Although the drug prices would fall this would make it even easier for people to get them and use them on a regular basis. This would increase the number of addicts and the crime would not decrease. In fact, Wilson suggests that crime would actually increase. We would have all these new users who are now no longer able to hold a job because of their driving habit that forces them to resort to criminal activity. ...
