Illegal Drugs

Libertarians in this country have been advocating for the decriminalization of all illegal drugs, their main argument being that when someone does drugs, it doesn’t infringe upon other people’s rights. Some other arguments liken the current war on drugs to the prohibition era when alcohol used to be illegal. They think that when those hallucinogen substances are illegal, it actually increase their use, and causes their traffic to be the sole prerogative of unscrupulous individuals.

There is some truth in those arguments. However, legalizing drugs like cocaine and marijuana would send the wrong signal to our kids. This argument can be found very weak by some people when it comes to Marijuana, because apparently, it is not that more harmful than cigarette. I will concede this point only partially. One the one hand, Marijuana is not too harmful on a long term basis. However, on the very short term, in the aftermath of its consumption, Marijuana seriously impairs people’s judgment and reflexes.

The difference between cigarette and Marijuana is that cigarette smokers decide to put an end prematurely to their own life, if we put aside the isolated cases of second-hand smoking. But a legalization of marijuana would make our roads look like Ali Baba’s case. Yet the number of accidents where alcohol is involved is already alarming.