The same thing should happen with drugs. Marijuana should be taxed to increase our revenue. .
Marijuana and other drugs would be made by the same people who make aspirin so the quality and safety would be assured, containing no poisons or adulterants. Allowing people to grow there own would also be beneficial because it would stop someone from going to a dealer and risk there life in a high crime neighborhood.
Sterile hypodermic needles will be readily available at corner drug stores to help curb the spread of HIV among IV drug users. These could be taxed heavily because the users will be assured of "clean drugs." At the same time, when a user goes to a pharmacy to purchase drugs, a policy could be created where the pharmacist can inform the user that if he wants help to kick the habit, that it is available to him. We can make this sort of help a reality for all people by using tax dollars obtained from selling legal drugs.
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Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement every year. Drug dealers and users are one step ahead on the enforcement process. If one drug lord is caught, another one will show up somewhere else. We cannot win. With the inception of NAFTA, it has made even easier to smuggle drugs in from Canada and Mexico. The borders between the countries were poorly guarded before. Now it seems like once a month, a tractor trailer from Canada is being impounded in New England containing marijuana. One can only imagine what this figure would be like today for our "war on drugs-. .
By lifting the ban on marijuana use and treating it like other drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, the nation would gain immediate and long-term benefits. This change in the law would greatly improve the quality of life for many people. Victims of glaucoma and those needing anti-nausea treatment, for example, would find marijuana easily available and it is proven that the effects are beneficial.