Drug Legalization

:)Self-ownershipEvery man, woman, boy, and girl have full rights to their own body, unless it harms the people around them. Therefore, since people have the rights to whatever goes into their body; recreational drugs should be legalized. All people as owners of their mind, body, and property should have the rights to use it or abuse it. The State has no rights to the individuals body or mind, and that means drugs should be legalized. Are drugs really all that bad? Drugs are not as dangerious or harmful to us people as everyone thinks. Most of the drug users are perfectly healthly people who just have a drug problem; just like people who are have formed habbits off of legalized drugs such as nicotine, alcohol, and caffine; and they are able to fuction properly in ordinary society as good citizens. Then there is also the fact that there are absolutely no recorded deaths from marijuana, 400 deaths per 100,000 from heroin, and 20 per 100,000 from cocaine; these statistics are compared to the legalized drugs and they are 150 deaths per 100,000 from alcohol and 650 per 100,000 from tobbacco or nicotine. Also, if you take the fact that all the illegal ones were most likely in poor quality do to the fact of faster profit, then if we legalized them the death tole would drop. Therefore, legalizing drugs will not hurt public health [1]. It will lower crime rates. When one thinks of drugs they think about the drug cartels in Central and South America. However if we were to legalize these drugs that they are producing and saling, and killing over, then we would see the rise of giant corporations that will quickly put these gangs and druglords out of business, and further destroy any reasons from the drug cartels to kill inncocent people over it. The cost is to much. In the United States our government spends an estimated $1,716.77 that is spent by our government each and every second of every day. From this estimate the U. S. governemnt will spend at least $23.44 billion on the War on Drugs in 2011. This is money that the tax payers pay to the government so that the government ca fuction properly; not so it can be spent on a failed war on drugs. This is money that can be used to recover us from our growing amount of debt to foreign countries [2]. The failure of prohibition. I will now give my final reason of my opening argument, and I would like to some up the point like this: PROHIBITION OF DRUGS IS A COMPLETE FAILURE. Our country is not stranger to prohibition, in the early 1900's the U. S. brought forth it's first drug prohibition. It was a prohibition on alocohol, and it ended with failure. Thousands of people were killed daily by mafia members and low quality alcohol and no matter how many arrests the FBI or local police made alcohol use was climbing. Just as prohibition was a failure back then it is now. We have thousands of people dying dayly in this country and others so that the drug flow can keep flowing and the fact that that there is a lower quality of drugs that continue to poison people, the half of the people in our jails are in there due to drug related affenses which is costing the taxpayers millions of dollars each year. It would be very wise to cut our losses and legalize drugs before we cause anymore damage to our nation and it's economy [3]. ConclusionI think it is fare to say that after all these reasons, the U. S. should legalize all drugs. Vote Pro! [1] . http://www.cato.org...[2] . http://actionamerica.org...[3] . http://cocktails.about.com...