Legalization of Drugs-
Legalization of Drugs-
Such an issue stirs up moral and religious beliefs;
beliefs that are contrary to what America should "believe".
However, such a debate has been apparent in the American
marketplace of ideas before with the prohibition of alcohol in
the 1920's. With the illegality of alcohol the mafia could
produce liquor and therefore had considerable control over those
who wanted their substance and service. The role that the mafia
played in the 1920's …
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…ead of diseases, why can't we bring ourselves to
distribute drugs cheaply and legally? The same arguments made
about cause and effect ought to be made here as well. Granted,
America has a vast and terrible problem with the issue on drugs
in the 1990s, but as Robert Kennedy opined, "If the alternatives
[are] disorder or injustice, the rational choice is injustice.
For when there is disorder, we cannot obtain or maintain
justice."(Boaz, p. 120)
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