Drug Legalization

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This paper examines the arguments both in favor of legalizing recreational drug use and in opposition to its legalization. The author of the paper then draws his own conclusion, based on the arguments reviewed, that for the overall good of society, we should not decriminalize illicit narcotics.

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"In 1920 the sale and consumption of alcohol was criminalized across the United States pursuant to the 18th Amendment. Consumer demand nevertheless presented a ripe opportunity for criminal usurpation of the illicit production and distribution of alcohol. Consequently, by the time Prohibition was subsequently repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933, the criminal enterprises that it had spawned were so firmly entrenched into the landscape of the American economy that most of them still retain considerable power even today (Dershowitz, 2002)."

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