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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [The legalization of ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [drugs (Against) ]
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[x]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 07/94 # of Words:660 School:Public State:NY
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Should Drugs Be Made Legal?
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For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems of
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society. There have been escalating costs spent on the war against drugs
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and countless dollars spent on rehabilitation, but the problem still
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exists. Not only has the drug problem increased but drug related problems
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are on the rise. Drug abuse is a killer in our country. Some are born
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addicts(crack babies), while others become users. The result of drug
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abuse is thousands of addicts in denial. The good news is the United States
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had 25,618 total arrests and 81,762 drug seizures due to drugs in 1989
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alone, but the bad news is the numbers of prisoners have increased by 70
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percent which will cost about $30 million dollars. Despite common wisdom,
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the U.S isn't experiencing a drug related crime wave. Government surveys
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show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery 21
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percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these
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numbers are up. One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing
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drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime,
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drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase
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of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS.
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Many believe that legalizing drugs would lessen crime. They point out
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that the legalization of drugs would deter future criminal acts. They also
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emphasize and contrast Prohibition. When the public realized that
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Prohibition could not be enforced the law was repealed. From this, one
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may infer the same of legalizing drugs. Legalizing alcohol didn't increase
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alcoholism, so why would drugs increase drug abuse?
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However, drugs should not be legalized because there would be an
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increase in drug abuse due to its availability. Once legalized, drugs
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would become cheaper and more accessible to people who previously had not
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tried drugs, because of the high price or the legal risk. Drug abuse would
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skyrocket! Addicts who tend to stop, not by choice, but because the drugs
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aren't accessible would now feed the addiction if drugs were made legal.
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These drug addicts would not be forced to kick the habit due to the
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availability of the drug they would partake eagerly. The temptation to use
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drugs would increase when advertisements for cocaine, heroin and marijuana
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are displayed on television. Instead of money used by employed addicts, you
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will see welfare funds used to purchase drugs. If welfare funds were being
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misused, this would cause a major problem in the economy. Drugs must not
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be legalized. It puts our country at a terrible risk.
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Health officials have shown that the legalization of drugs would cause
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a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. AIDS poses a growing threat to
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addicts, and thus to society as a whole. The virus that causes AIDS is
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growing, due to drug addicts who share needles and syringes. The sharing
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of such needles by intravenous drug users helps increase the spread of
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AIDS. "Infection among IV drug abusers is continuing to occur at a very
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steady rate," warn Richard E. Chaisson director of the AIDS service at John
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Hopkins University. In the U.S gay men still make up the primary risk
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group, although 750,000 to 1 million drug addicts are believed to be at
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risk to AIDS nationally. The problem here is the sharing of needles, which
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is causing the spread of AIDS. IV drug abusers are killing our nation at
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an amazingly fast speed. AIDS which surfaced in the 80's is now on the
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rise and even more deadly to IV drug users. The sharing of needles must be
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stopped. Drugs should not be legalized.
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Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs
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should remain illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug
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abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. The United States can
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not afford this problem. It has become a world power by strengthening its
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people not by killing them. Drug abuse has gotten worse, with its effects
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on crack babies, drug addicts, and the I.V user. There must be education
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for the survival of this nation, not legalization.
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