 Topic:

o The legalization of drugs

 Brainstorming:
o Drugs
o Marihuana
o Coffee Shops
o Benefits
o Drug War
o Minimize harm
o Reasons for legalizing drugs
o All drugs
o Drug addicts

 Main ideas:
o Drugs
o Drug war
o Minimize harm
o Reasons for legalizing drugs

 Order
o Drugs
o Reasons for legalizing drugs
o Minimize harm
o Drug War

 Sources:
o Drugs
 What justifies the difference between policies on drugs like tobacco
and marijuana? According to Tessie Castillo, the historical decisions
to criminalize certain drugs were motivated almost entirely by race.
While heroin, cocaine, and marijuana were all originally legal
pharmaceutical drugs, the government criminalized them when
 they became associated with Chinese, black, and Mexican people,
respectively. These historical justifications persist today, as
minorities face far higher rates of incarceration and arrests due to
drug-related crimes than whites, despite equal rates of usage,
according to the Brookings Institution.
 http://www.wupr.org/2018/03/03/why-all-drugs-should-be-legal/

o Reasons for legalizing drugs

2. Less people would overdose.
100 Americans die of overdose each day. This number doesn’t have
to be so high. Many people don’t even realize that overdose is the
leading cause of accidental death in the U.S at around 38,000
people a year.
Let me break this down for you real quick. If you had a loved one
who was doing drugs and you couldn’t stop them no matter what,
would you rather have them taking drugs of a known strength and
purity or have them play a guessing game of how strong and pure
their drugs are?
Would you rather them take drugs produced in accordance with
strict medial standards or drugs that were cut with dangerous
adulterants produced by organized criminals?
You can’t stop the people from doing drugs. You can only hope to
contain them.
3. Less people would go to jail.
Pretty simple. When all drugs are legal no one gets arrested for
selling or possessing them anymore.
From New York to California the jailed and torture of addicts is
routine. To pick one kind of torture: The Justice department
estimates that 216,000 people are raped in these prisons every
year. This is the number of rape victims not actual rapes — that
number is far higher.
As the writer Christopher Glazek has pointed out, this means the
United States is the first society in human history where more men
have been raped than women. Don’t tell a feminist that though.
4. Drugs would be held to a higher standard and produced at a
better quality.
Supply and demand. The good stuff would reign supreme. Less
worry about the come down and more focus on the come up.
 This would also decrease the number of accidental overdoses and
save human lives. That’s what we want people. To save humans.
 http://thorlikes.com/25-reasons-all-drugs-should-be-legal/

o Minimize harm
 That's understandable: Different drugs do carry different risks, and
the potential for serious harm from marijuana is less than for
cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine. Marijuana, for example,
appears incapable of causing a lethal overdose, but cocaine, heroin,
and methamphetamine can kill if taken in excess or under the
wrong circumstances.
But if the goal is to minimize harm — to people here and abroad —
the right policy is to legalize all drugs, not just marijuana.
In fact, many legal goods cause serious harm, including death. In
recent years, about 40 people per year have died from skiing or
snowboarding accidents; almost 800 from bicycle accidents; several
thousand from drowning in swimming pools; more than 20,000 per
year from pharmaceuticals; more than 30,000 annually from auto
accidents; and at least 38,000 from excessive alcohol use.
That means even if prohibition could eliminate drug use, at no cost,
it would probably do more harm than good. Numerous moderate
and responsible drug users would be worse off, while only a few
abusive users would be better off.
 https://theweek.com/articles/445005/why-all-drugs-should-legal-
yes-even-heroin

o Drug War
 No, says Miron. Walk down any city street and you can already buy
legal drugs in multiple establishments: Caffeine at Starbucks,
nicotine at the supermarket, alcohol at bars and restaurants. And
we're not ALL addicted to all of these drugs.
Our current drug policy doesn't work, Miron observes. Despite ~$40
billion spent on enforcement and prosecution, drug use is still
widespread. Meanwhile, because the products are illegal, they're
dangerous, low-quality, and unregulated, and they generate zero
tax revenue.
 https://www.businessinsider.com/all-drugs-should-be-legalized-
immediately-says-harvard-prof-2010-10
 Mind Map:

 Outline:
o Introduction
 Explain what I’m going to talk about.
o P2
 Talk about the drugs, legal drugs vs illegal drugs, like
marihuana vs tobacco, or alcohol, why one is illegal and
the other is legal.
o P3
 Give reasons for the legalization of drugs, like benefits,
and show that the legalization of drugs can help the
economy.
o P4
 How to minimize the harm if drugs are legalized. Talk
about the harm reduction policies, and the coffee shops,
and drugs policies of countries.
o P5
  Talk about the Drug War, does the war against drug have
worked? Talk in an economical view the drug war, and
give statistics of how bad is the drug war.
o Conclusion
 Conclusion of the essay.

 Thesis Statement:
o The legalization of drugs is a taboo topic, and this has made, that
drugs are not legal in some countries, and this makes countries
to fight drugs with a lot of violence, and to expend a lot of
money in drug wars, so many people asked, why we don’t
change our way to fight drugs? With coffee shops, and with
harm reduction programs, like the ones in Switzerland. In my
opinion the legalization of drugs, will have more benefits that
bad consequences.