Also, I feel that legalizing drugs would not have any effect on the level of personal responsibility of the users. Any individual that takes drugs and operates a vehicle, kills someone, etc.. is responsible for their actions according to the law. Any person who operates a vehicle while drunk is no different from a person that shot up a bunch of heroin and tried to drive in terms of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Both are committing a crime, which is that of unsafely operating a vehicle. Now, for those people who do not operate a vehicle or commit any type of other crime, and drink are left to their own devices. A person who shoots up heroin will be hunted and prosecuted. I feel that the crime should only be specified by the action which inflicts harm or danger externally on society. Heroin is a drug that is horrible for you, and there should likely be no situation in which a person takes it for medicinal value, but due to its extreme taboo and its status as a highly illegal drug, it pushes the control of it down to some individuals with extremely poor ethics. It is common practice for drugs such as heroin to be combined with other chemicals in order to increase the mass by which it is sold. These people are a unnecessary evil in a society which tries to forget about people who have been ushered into the lower ranks of society, and the drugs in which they are dependent unbiased on are generally have extreme risks in which they tend to pursue through any means in order to aquire. The war on drugs does nothing to help these people who follow such a path, by outlawing any persons drug of choice, it will generally just cause them to break the law. Through the means by which an addict will use to acquire drugs are generally the causes of external crimes in which drug addicts are generally associated with. Government distribution or at least relative availability of clean drug sources for addicts would ruin the business prospects of those who seek to exploit this aspect of society for their own personal gain. The fact remains is that drugs have been banned is essentially an act of reducing the liberties of your own personal lives. The goverment has made the decision for you about what you can and cannot put into your body, I feel that this should be a choice made by each individual given that they have the proper unbiased education before it is made available to them. Some people claim that this is a necessity of morality or civil responcibility, but these same people tend to believe just about everything they hear through propoganda about drugs. The war on drugs is an extreme misappropriation of funds, as all it does is spend money trying to fight an individuals personal health choice. In reality, it is generally due to the opposition of America's larger economic forces. Many pharmaceutical lobbies prefer to not have a free alternative to their medicines readily available to anyone who wishes to grow it such as in the case of marijuana.
