Public Opinion: Should the United States Legalize Drugs?

I disagree with thoughts that legalizing drugs will make people think they are "less-cool" and make the choice to not use. I feel that the legalization of drugs will allow more people who are law-abiding to decide to start to use illicit drugs leading to many more cases of violence, torn apart families and self-problems. If people can obtain and use drugs freely, there would be no reason for people to worry about using them, and it would allow current addicts to easily obtain more without attempting treatment. I don't see a problem with the big prison population relating to drug use. If people break the law, (use drugs) then they should be put in to prison. If you change the laws to free-up prison space, what makes drug use any different than people who have broken other laws. If drug users in prisons can change common laws to stop the over population of prison, it would make us a dirty country. Changing what we thought was fair to lower the population in the prisons seems like an unnecessary attempt to solve drug abuse. Making it legal is not solving the problem, it is only allowing it to grow. The best ways to solve the social problem on drug abuse is to make them very hard to obtain and having many resources for interventions, rehab and counseling for abusers.

Jake H of IL 8:54PM March 09, 2012