No to drug legalization

The legalization of drugs is one of the models proposed by activists and institutions pro human rights and pro individual rights for amending the laws prohibiting the possession, consumption, supply and drug production. In this essay we will argue against legalization, for example, to legalize the consumption and trade of drugs, it would create an impact on the finances of groups outside the law and drug trafficking, due to increased offer that this would generate and also create a massive drug trade that unchecked countries end up affecting victims of this scourge, and this would result in a much worse situation than nowadays. (Catalina Cifuentes)

By making certain drugs and psychoactive substances legal for consumers, what authorities would be doing would be to encourage their production, distribution and consumption, making them even more affordable for people. The situation could get as bad as with snuff, which at first had been less used as it was more restricted, whereas today, people have very easy access to it, to the point where teenagers of 12 and 13 are able to get it and develop habits of consumption and addiction. Many people have died from the effects of snuff. With examples like the one of snuff, it can be seen that when laws become more lax, people tend to respect them much less and abuse those things that had once been forbidden, in this case to abuse drugs.(daniella gonzalez)

One of the fears that society has toward drug legalization is that, just as alcohol became a normal part of people’s lives, drugs can become just as normal and that their consumption can become daily. Also, this would implicate advertisement and encouragement through the media, which would only increase the problem even more. This solution could escalate the situation to the point where the control of consumption would become impossible and everyone would have access to drugs since the prices would decrease.  Also the fact that it would be more available, basically everyone would have access to it, making it a risk for the underage population, especially in countries like Colombia where the youth tends to disregard law restrictions and there is no parental supervision whatsoever. (Carlos Manrique) 

   

This problem is one of the most controversial topics in the government now at days, but this is not something new, in the 80`s governments around the world face the same problem, many people discus that the solution to narcotrafic was the legalization but this can create a new problem. Any government would have to face up the management of the drugs by the private enterprises, if drugs become legal, many enterprises will try to control the merchandise, they will try to increase their earnings by any method and just imagine your son watching an advertising of marijuana, or looking an advertising of cocaine 2x1 in an important shop. Is that what we want for our future? (Alejandro Murillo)

Actually one of the bigger problems around the drugs legalization is the support that the government will give to de individualism, because the people that use drugs are just trying to have good sensations, or avoid their problems which isn’t good. They are also hurting themselves and they have the excuse of saying that the government approves it, and there’s nothing bad about it, but that isn’t true because the government should be caring about the people’s health, not to allow them to do everything they want to just with the excuse that they wanted to.  (Daniella Acevedo)