So I had to write this essay for school on my opinion on drugs and other select points that I re-state. Well it seemed a waste too write all that for only my teacher to read it real fast, grade it, and then have it disappear. (Caution: This is a rant that has and identity crisis because it thinks it's an essay.) Here it is. Exactly as it's going to be graded.
I strongly disagree that drugs should be legalized. If they were to be legalized many more people would become addicted; particularly teenagers because if drugs were legal they would be more inclined to try them and become addicted as a result. Drugs are dangerous substances that give someone an illusion of superiority, tranquility, etc. etc. and damage the user’s physique and physical health. I do not think that only a few drugs are the greatest threat. They all are. All of them will cause damage to a user’s life through many, many ways. All of them can kill if the user overdoses and even if they don’t the damage the chemicals cause to the body will kill them eventually if they continue to use for a long time. They all have some degree of addiction which makes the person dependant on them and will have that person wanting or desperate for more. This is the major cause of drug-related crimes. If drugs were to become legal the lesser crimes will be lower because hiding the drugs would no longer be the problem. Yet I believe the deadly crimes would become worse. Once the drugs are legal the users and sellers won’t have to hide their ‘businesses’ as carefully anymore. More people looking for an easy buck will become sellers because now they don’t have to worry about getting caught and dealing with severe consequences. Turf wars will become a deadly and very common thing. I am not naive enough to believe that drugs will be stopped entirely however. As long as humans have the crazy things we call emotions and the difficult things we call thoughts, drugs will exist, as the past as proven. Yet making them legal will undoubtedly cause way more problems then it will solve.
Drugs are termed as ‘cool’ nowadays. If you break the law by doing them, you not only get the high but the in-your-face feeling of getting away with it. Since ‘everyone’ is doing it then to fit in you can do it too and suddenly your ‘one of them’. This is a idiotic way of thinking that will cause much more harm then good. As for the treatment of drug users I believe it is a hopeless cause unless the person wants to stop. If they are forced into an in-patient program they will only be clean or sober for that time only. Unless they want to give it up, the minute they can, they will go right back. Punishment is also a con and pro. If you punish someone over and over, that can sometimes get them to wake up and stop. Other times it can just drive them into their addiction more and more so they can escape. The most I can say is that everyone has their own choices and path to take. No matter what someone else says or does we cannot help change someone unless they want to change themselves. This has also been proven from example and will continue to be that way. We just have to hope we know the user well enough to know what will be the best way to help them. Being alive is complicated and to stay that way you have to fight sometimes. If you don’t fight back then your going to get nowhere in this time we have.
