My thought on drug usage in the U.S.

Two days I was listening to a report on the NPR. The report was about the visit of President Bush to some of the Latin American countries. The subject matter of the report was, in addition to economic and political issues, also about the problem of drugs from these countries entering the U.S. As it is known that the U.S. spends billion of dollars yearly to fight the production and importation of illegal drugs into the country. The war against the drug import has been going on more than a decade. Nonetheless, the drug usage in the States has not decreased or been solved even though the U.S. government pours billions of dollars into the countries in South America to fight it militarily. The problem will never be solved considering the nature of human beings.

What can be done instead?

I am of the opinion that any kind of drugs should be legalized regardless of the type. We will have the problem no matter it using drugs is legal or illegal. So the problem exits with or without being legal. Now because selling drugs is illegal, there is an under world criminality next to the legal government. The under world does not pay taxes and creates problems of any sort in the society such as killing, kidnapping etc. The governments in the South America are ineffective against fighting the drug cartels. However, these governments are the toys of these cartels. Therefore the democracies are in trouble because of the situation or control of the cartels over the governments.

In the U.S., the society faces a big dilemma because (1) it has to deal with the drug addicts and (2) with the people who sell drugs. The organized crime is very effective in extracting profit from selling drugs. The only way to avert such problems is making drugs legal. Users would buy them from pharmacies. The legal purchase would also help to pay for treatment of the addicts. Nowadays the treatment is based on the money form the government. The government would not have to pay billions of dollars to fight the drug production; yet, it would divert the money to treating people or helping the farmers with other production. Consequently, there would not be any organized crime to import and sell drugs illegally.

My view is now an impossible to be accepted but this is the only to face the reality both economically and socially.