Preliminary Information

Title: Why All Drugs Should Be Legal

Author(s): Connor Warshauer

Source: Internet

Analysis of Information

Subject: Why drugs are illegal, if sometimes they help us

Purpose: Show why the legalize of drugs might help

Audience: Teenagers and adults

Sources: Personal knowledge

Primarly Details
A woman stands on a street corner and takes out a small cylinder
of a drug rolled in paper. A policeman walks by and glances over.
Could this woman be in trouble? Well, that depends on whether or
Thesis: not the drug has been repeatedly proven to cause lung cancer, even
to second-hand users. If so, the woman has nothing to worry
about; but if the drug is a largely harmless, non-addictive, and
medicinally useful plant, she could be arrested.
 Limits: USA

Brookings Institution, Independent Scientific Committee on

Evidence:
Drugs, New York Times.
Quotation or sections for While the prohibition of marijuana and the legalization of alcohol
paraphrasing: and tobacco clearly provide grounds for hypocrisy claims, this
inconsistency in policy extends far beyond marijuana. According
to a study on behalf of the Independent Scientific Committee on
Drugs that measured the harm caused by different drugs to both
users and others, alcohol was the most harmful, outscoring even
heroin and meth. In terms of harm to users, heroin, meth, and
crack cocaine scored higher than alcohol, but powder cocaine,
ecstasy, and LSD all ranked much lower. In terms of harm to
others, alcohol scored more than double the second most harmful
drug, heroin. Sound public policy requires consistency; if one drug
meets the standards required to outlaw it and the law fails to
outlaw other drugs that meet the same standards, either the
standards or the one of the laws must be wrong. Therefore, the
government should either prohibit alcohol and tobacco or legalize
all less dangerous drugs. The only possible excuse for failing to
take either course can be the targeting of minority populations or
more charitably, political considerations.

Those who disagree will most likely point to the opioid epidemic,
arguing that legalizing heroin would exacerbate what’s already a
national health crisis. While users harming themselves does not
provide legitimate grounds to violate the principle of bodily
autonomy, this argument fails to hold up to close scrutiny anyway.
According to The New York Times, the opioid epidemic
originated with the over-prescription of legal drugs, which still
cause nearly half of opioid-related deaths. The spike in deaths
 from illegal substances comes largely from fentanyl, an opioid far
more potent and dangerous than heroin. However, buyers rarely
seek out fentanyl because it’s so dangerous. In most cases fentanyl
cases, buyers unknowingly purchase heroin laced with fentanyl or
pure fentanyl marketed as heroin.

Presentation and Argumentation

Racism , versus, marijuana, tobacco, women, safe, medical use,

Concepts/Words:
drugs law, illegal, cops, government, danger.

This leads me to a final point. Even if prohibiting the use of drugs

wasn’t a rights violation, punishing users seems cruel. Drug laws,
in theory, are written to protect the very people who violate them
from harming themselves. It’s entirely illogical to punish such
people for harming themselves, as they’re already the victims.
Instead, the law should focus on helping them as constructively as
possible. That means providing them with care and aid, not a cell
Conclusion: and bars. Nobody benefits from putting drug users in jails, except
for racists who want to see minorities off the streets and away
from the polls. This argument should unify an incredibly polarized
public: conservatives should reject drug criminalization as
government overreach and liberals should reject it as a tool of
racial targeting. I have to believe that there are more people in this
country committed to either conservatism or liberalism than there
are committed to racism.

Implications:

Evaluation
 This article explains appoint of view, were why legal drugs are
Personal Reaction:
legal if they harm us more than illegal drugs.

Strenght of Case: Important