Drugs Case For Legalizing Marijuana By Gore Vidal Case Study

What would be your solution to end drug addiction? In the essay, Drugs: Case for Legalizing Marijuana†, Gore Vidal argues his solution, to legalize all drugs along with marijuana, to end drug addiction. Marijuana along with other drugs should not be legalized because they will cause more harm than good, begin leading to drug after drug, and would forever affect the world. Drugs aren’t just bad for some people, they are bad for everyone. Vidal states â€Å"Label each drug with a precise description of what effect-good or bad- the drug will have on whoever takes it.† Each drug will have a different affect, but none of them will be good ones. Although they may seem â€Å"good† at first, the outcome in the end is something that takes time to come back†¦show more content†¦He argues that you can try them as many times as you want. I disagree, the â€Å"trying† will eventually turn into something more. And you will eventually become a drug user. E ach drug has its own extent in which if you know the extent, you shouldn’t even consider trying it. Vidal states that, â€Å"Yet it seems most unlikely that any reasonably sane person will become a drug addict if he knows in advance what addiction is going to be like.†. It doesn’t matter how sane you are, anyone could become a drug addict. Everyone hits their low spot in life and sometimes the best people fall through and turn to something, and that something could be drugs. Yes, there will be the ones who always become addicts, but it can be prevented. If drugs were legalized, it will forever affect the world. It will not only affect people now but people in the future. Vidal talks about the war on drugs and government at the end of his essay. He states that â€Å"nothing sensible will be done† and it will only get â€Å"worse†. What would only get worse is if drugs were actually legalized and people began to use them more and more. If the governm ent keeps fighting the war against drugs, a better solution will come up to end drug use and drug addiction. Eventually drugs could be belittled. Vidal mentions that â€Å"Every man, has the power (should have the power), to kill himself is he chooses.†. This is a true statement but his way of using this sentence, I disagree with. If a person is choosing to become a drug