That drugs should be legalized. There are great numbers of people in Australia who believe that legalizing hard-drugs, such as heroin, speed, cocaine etc, would improve the drug problem. This may be a true statement, however such legalization is yet to be proven, and can cause some severe consequences, which outweigh the possible benefits. Such consequences include an increase in uncontrolled use and thus increases in overdosing and intravenous (I.V.) transmitted diseases.For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems of society. There have been escalating costs spent on the war against drugs and countless dollars spent on rehabilitation, but the problem still exists. Not only has the drug problem increased but drug related problems are on the rise. Drug abuse is a killer in Australia. Some are born addicts, with the addiction being passed on from mother to child, while others become users.The result of drug abuse is thousands of addicts in denial, of which some have had to resort to crime to support the drug habit. One controversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, it would not solve the theft of items to support the drugs only the crime of consumption. Drugs should remain illegal in Australia because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS.The belief that legalizing drugs would lessen crime exists in many communities. They point out that the legalization of drugs would deter future criminal acts and they emphasize prohibition. When the public realized that Prohibition could not be enforced the law was removed. This is true of alcohol, however drugs should not be legalized because there would be an increase in drug abuse due to its availability, of which there was little before. Once legalized, drugs would become cheaper and more accessible to people who previously had not tried drugs, because of t...
