on for decriminalization would change the setting for drug use and thus the setting will change the mind set resulting in lower addiction rates..Drug laws have led to stigmatization and marginalization of drug users. Countries that have ultra conservative drug policies, like the United States, have the highest rates of HIV and Hepatitis C infection. Regulating drugs would give users access to clean needles and a known drug potency reducing overdose chances. There is no argument to this except that the myth that more people will become addicts which has not been proven. In Holland, where drugs laws are more flexible, drug usage has not gone up.The current drug laws makes criminals out of millions of otherwise law-abiding people who choose to use drugs in the privacy of their homes. Legalization restores our right to use drugs responsibly to change the way we think and feel. It puts controls and regulation in the hands of the government to protect the vulnerable from dangerous drug dealers. The argument that drug users are criminals does not hold up since these law-abiding citizens dont break other laws.One more area that legalization will affect is that of race. Black people are ten times more likely to be imprisoned for drug offences than whites. Police officers discriminate and use racial stereotyping in whom they arrest. Legislation removes a whole 8set of laws that are used to disproportionately bring black people into the criminal justice system. It would force blacks into other enterprises to make legal money and changesociety as a whole. Opponents say lock up drug dealers but we are running out of room in our prisons. Its time to take away drug dealers source of income a...
