Drug Decriminalization Of 1970
Drugs are a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. For centuries, humans have been taking drugs - including magic mushrooms and opium - up to 10,600 years ago. At the University of Valladolid in Spain an anthropologist compiled evidence of psychoactive drug use in ancient cultures around the world (Gray). Decriminalization or decriminalisation is the lessening of criminal penalties in relation to certain acts, perhaps retroactively, though perhaps regulated permits or fines might still apply. Drug decriminalization, would not be an appropriate option for the United States because if decriminalizing would go into effect it would allow for injustices like the misuse
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So with this Nixon and the U.S. Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The CSA Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 is the federal U.S drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use and distribution of certain narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, anabolic steroids and other chemicals ( Reuters). Therefore, since the year of 1970 people have been well aware and informed about the usage and affiliation with drugs. People still dare to challenge the law and that is why they still continue to do these illegal acts. While in the act of being “sneaky” they are put in prison if caught and that’s where the decriminalization act would come into play. Decriminalizing drugs is not making them legal, but instead revolves around criminal charges from the action. Decriminalizing drugs would indeed help keep people out of prison, but at what risk. Drugs are addicting and what happens when a person who uses the first time is caught, what is to happen when they are released and get into a bigger mess and involve more people or lives are lost because this criminal was only a first offense so they had little to no punishment. We do not let murders go if they only kill one person for the first time do we? Although, some people are caught at the wrong time at the wrong place, but that's where law enforcement should step up and go the extra mile to prove the innocent, innocent. That's where our Fifth Amendment rights kick in- innocent until proven guilty- all necessary procedures should be taken to stop an innocent person from being put
So with this Nixon and the U.S. Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The CSA Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 is the federal U.S drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use and distribution of certain narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, anabolic steroids and other chemicals ( Reuters). Therefore, since the year of 1970 people have been well aware and informed about the usage and affiliation with drugs. People still dare to challenge the law and that is why they still continue to do these illegal acts. While in the act of being “sneaky” they are put in prison if caught and that’s where the decriminalization act would come into play. Decriminalizing drugs is not making them legal, but instead revolves around criminal charges from the action. Decriminalizing drugs would indeed help keep people out of prison, but at what risk. Drugs are addicting and what happens when a person who uses the first time is caught, what is to happen when they are released and get into a bigger mess and involve more people or lives are lost because this criminal was only a first offense so they had little to no punishment. We do not let murders go if they only kill one person for the first time do we? Although, some people are caught at the wrong time at the wrong place, but that's where law enforcement should step up and go the extra mile to prove the innocent, innocent. That's where our Fifth Amendment rights kick in- innocent until proven guilty- all necessary procedures should be taken to stop an innocent person from being put