Legalizing Drugs

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This paper examines how one of the most serious problems facing our society today is that of illegal drugs, and the organized crime syndicates that manufacture and traffic them. It looks at how over the past few years, some people have begun to argue that the best solution is simply to decriminalize drugs and how they have argued that instead of focusing on enforcing drug laws and punishing offenders, governments should recognize that drug users are a reality and focus on treating their addictions as a social and medical problem.

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" Don't legalize marijuana! The case against legalizing drugs, with specific reference to organized crime One of the most serious problems facing our society today is that of illegal drugs, and the organized crime syndicates that manufacture and traffic them. Over the past few years, some people have begun to argue that the best solution is simply to decriminalize drugs. They have argued that instead of focusing on enforcing drug laws and punishing offenders, governments should recognize that drug users are a reality, and focus on treating their addictions as a social and medical problem (Belenko)."

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