Editorial

Kevon Chambers

2/15/12

Period E

Ethics Editorial

The article that I read was mostly about how what legalizing drug would do. A lot of people think that legalizing drugs would put an end to all of the turmoil with smuggling and the underground market for drug. However the author of this particular article thinks otherwise. Everyone knows Michael Jackson died from some sort of prescription drug as well as Amy Winehouse and most recently Whitney Houston. The author of this article does not think that legalizing drug would cause crime with drug to decrease because look at what happens with the use and abuse of legal drugs because of legal drug we have lost three of the greatest musicians ever. The opinion that the author basically gives is that Drug will always be abused so by making them legal your just making it easier for people to abuse them however if you keep them illegal people have a harder time getting them therefore less abuse of legal drug like prescription medicine can occur. The author has a valid point indeed however his thinking is kind of one track. Legalizing drugs wont prevent abuse with a few people but what about the millions of people that need these drug to live their lives, what about the people that need the drugs to be mobile, what about your grandparents that need these drug to stay healthy. I say for about every person that abuses these drug there are about forty- thousand people that don't. So even though this author has a very valid point I feel like you can't just think about one side of the situation when writing an article like this. You can not have a one track mind because in this situation it is not fair to stop making drugs legal because of the couple famous people that have a ton of money and are able to abuse the drugs, when there are a lot of poor people that actually need these drugs and are getting the minimum amount if any at all.

Bennett, William J. "Legalizing Drug Won't Prevent Abuse." Cnn. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/15/opinion/      bennett-whitney-drugs/index.html?hpt=ju_t2>.