dijous, 23 de gener del 2020

Opinion essay - Pol Collado

Drug legalization

For some years, the legalization of drugs has been widely discussed, since there are those who claim that by prohibiting the sale, possession and consumption of drugs, the right to individuality of each person is violated, depriving them of doing with their lives what decide.
Guillermo Garat, author of the book "Marihuana and other herbs. Prohibition, regularization and use of drugs in Uruguay", states that by legalizing drugs, drug trafficking and the mafias it entails would be eliminated. However, would the legalization of drugs really be a solution to this important problem or would it lead to many more?
Multiple scientific studies indicate that people, when they get high, lose full knowledge of their actions, so they can incur violent acts without being in their full faculties, since it is demonstrated that a person under narcotic effects becomes selfish and self-centered, subtracting him any possible importance to the people around them.
While there are essential drugs for public welfare, narcotic abuse presents one of the main public health problems, since the aggressive nature of certain substances is highly detrimental to the health of citizens. Drugs, for the most part, are the cause of thousands and thousands of deaths around the world.
The drugs in their majority, do not contribute any considerable benefit to the society, in spite of which there are those who affirm that the use of the drugs increases the happiness of the consumers, is a temporary well-being that causes more damages than goodnesses.

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