| Show Guest Column Legalizing Drugs Makes Sense Sense There has been much pu publicity in the last year on the issue of legalizing drugs Our country finds itself imprisoned by the high crime rate involved with dr drug g Unless g is done this cancer will continue to deteriorate ou our society J jf 0 J i I v r t Ik t k We offer much publicity city about the war on drugs but we we cannot cannot offer any solutions How do you tell ten tella a lower-class lower inner-city inner youth that drugs are not the answer We the of ofa try emphasize importance a good od education and an h honest nest paying job who is going to listen when the kid next door is making a hundred dollars day selling drugs By legalization we can get these criminals off the street and keep related drug deaths to a minimum Secondly the transmitting of disease can be controlled with safer use of various drugs Finally organized crime would suffer a devastating blow to a billion year dollar profit The money made from drugs after legalization could be filtered back to the com com- For example shelter sh lter for forthe forthe the homeless food for the hungry and most importantly money for money for education The main concern on this issue is does the n negative outweigh the positive The cold reality is drugs affect th the individual from the womb to the tomb Drug usage has been linked to birth defects and pre-mature pre senility not to mention permanent brain damage Sociologists say much of who we weare weare weare are and what we do is a product a-product of our social environment What is goi going g to haRP happen n when our Cu j environment en- en i is fueled by drugs drug's Many ideas have surfaced to end t this is cold war The Just say No campaign the idea of Zero Tolerance bringing in the military to aid the fight and now tion What Whatever ver the answer we have a p problem on our hands |
