Decriminalization Vs. Prohibition :: essays research papers

Decriminalization vs. banning     The idea of Drug Prohibition made sense lower the availability of drugsby the use of impartiality enforcement. Unfortunately, Drug Prohibition means heavycosts while proving to be ineffective and counterproductive.     I was thirteen when I saw drugs for the first time. I was with some ofmy fri wind ups that live down the road from me. They asked me if I wanted to give birthhigh with them. At the time, I didnt know what getting high meant, so I askedthem. One of them pulled ut a long slender object, exchangeable to a cigarette, unlesstwisted on either end. They told me it was something special. I was lightenbewildered. They said "Its pot, you know, marijuana?" Immediately I said no.I had seen s perpetuallyal anti-dug commercials, all with the same motto, "Just Say No".I felt so good about myself. I had d star the right thing. I said no to myfriends, which is a very hard finis to make at that age. I was not going tobe iodine of those sad cases, where my life is wasted away. I was not going to bea crazed addict, who would stop at nothing to get a hit. I was not going to bedodging the law my building block life. I was going to be everything I wanted to be, anddrugs were definitely not going to get in the way. I promised myself I wouldnot end up like Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin, both found dead by and by overdoses,because I had the power to say no. I had read stories and seen newsworthiness flashesabout the side effects of some drugs. I had read paper articles aboutpeople in Rome, which is just a few legal proceeding away, dying of heroin overdoses. Ihad seen people on TV that were alive, but were not conscious of theirsurroundings, because of drug use. Their lives were basically over. I hadlistened to speakers preach that drugs were one of the Devils tools. There wasno way I would even consider ever trying them, because once a person starts,they cant stop.&nb sp    It was a few eld later that I heard the other side of the story. I learn that not only were we losing the war on drugs, but that the war had beencorrupted. The presidency was wasting money on something without a cause, orhope. It wasnt long afterwards that when I tried marijuana for the first time. Iremember it well. I was with my sister, who was the only person that I couldnt