Drugs: To legalize or not

EOC-Week 5

This author has many credited thoughts on decriminalizing marijuana. It is definitely a fact that marijuana hasn’t caused anyone’s death or caused anyone to go insane or act violently toward someone. It’s the hard drugs that people end up hurting themselves or others with and those are the ones we are having the problems with. I found it a very interesting fact though that over 70% of Mexico’s drug trade was actually marijuana. America could supply their own marijuana in their own backyards, if they weren’t threatened to get locked up. This would really halt Mexico’s distribution process and therefore eliminate warfare in Mexico.
All the other options don’t really seem to make sense to me, for example, “bailing out” Mexico with billions of dollars including all traffickers. This will only heighten the violence eventually and start the same process back over again. Although it is a scary thought in legalizing all these drugs, the fact that in Portugal, people found and sought treatment after legalizing psychotropic drugs, really sounds reassuring. We have to somehow take a different step in stopping all these killings and bloodshed spread through Mexico. Gun control seems like too long of a process, because even if they did somehow restrict Mexico’s access to weapons, they would turn to other suppliers if they had to. Also their own supply that they currently have wouldn’t run out for a very long time. Regulating and taxing these drugs though, actually might work. If people have to pay more on these drugs, after legalizing them, it may turn some away or may even push them to get treatment, which would hopefully one day end the sad saga of drug-related deaths in America.