If drugs were legalized, would use go down because the rebellion factor is gone, or would it increase because it's not illegal?
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Increase because it's not illegal, believe me, drugs are not for rebellion, they are done because they are fun.
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From everything I can tell, the use of currently illegal drugs would not change at all based on legalization. Which is somewhat positive, all things considered. However, no-one in the government or the pro-legalization community seems to have caught on to the fact that if these drugs are legalized, they become subject to taxation and regulation. This is a much more interesting facet to an already overworked topic.
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Drug use would probably go up slightly because there would be many curious people who have otherwise refrained from trying a drug out of fear of getting arrested or inability to find a source of the drug. Whether or not they are legal wouldn't change many people's opinion of drugs and they would still not use them for personal, health, or religious reasons. I think that if drugs were legalized we could definitely make more progress since we would stop wasting money on a failing drug war that costs billions to arrest, prosecute, and imprison drug users and start spending that money on programs that will actually help people such as research, education, and therapy.
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the use may increase however there would be greater control on the use and spread of the drug. not only would the government be able to tax and regulate the drug but like you infered SOME of the rebbelion factor would be gone from the act.
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I think drug use would stay around the same. If someone really wants to do a drug, they will find it. It isn't very hard to find drugs. I was in the "preppy clique' in high school and the few times that I did experiment with drugs I had NO problem finding them. And that's only high school. So, I guess from my own personal experience, it'd stay the same.
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Drug addiction is a public health issue, not a criminal one. If we took it out of the black market their might be a minimal initial spike in use but it would be safer for everyone.
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