Opinion essay - Lluís Vaz-Romero

Governments often make many addictive substances illegal because they may harm the health of those who take them. /.../

Nowadays, the idea of prohibiting by law substances actually legal such as alcohol and tobacco is said by a lot of people. Their arguments, a bad impact on people's health and as well and their impact between young people in our societies. But, that would as worth as they think?

First of all, we have to pay attention to the way that substances are sold. In my opinion, restricting the way that substances are sold would be more worth it by far than prohibiting it. Actually, many of the people who buy those things is because they see it as a cultural thing, so the opposition to those measures would be incredibly high. In order to avoid young, ill or manic-depressed people buy those substances and letting only healthy people but them, my suggestion is providing capable people with an individual card required to buy them.

Secondly, I would like to talk about the benefits that actually gain a state with taxes. From my point of view, that benefits actually let the countries build and improve their services, so the stop of duties from those products would become our countries worst. In addition, the black market won't start supplying alcohol and tobacco from other countries, don't letting the country control and gaining money.

Thirdly, none control in the way that substances are produced could have saddest consequences that one's that we expect. Crime syndicates would have control over those substances, making those substances one's with no medical and quality controls, being able to injure the population who buy those articles because are addict.

As a conclusion, I would say that those substances are not able to be prohibited yet. The risk that those substances produce and the benefits that the countries gain make them unable to be prohibited, so we have the thing in ways to control those substances, don't let people be addicted.