Black Men: Arguments For The Legalization Of Drugs

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Walter E. Block and Violet Obioha’s article “War on Black Men: Arguments for the Legalization of Drugs” argues that the legalization of drugs could greatly impact our country in positive ways by lowering crime rates, helping the tax revenue rise by focusing on other crimes rather than drug related crimes, helping the tax revenue by taxing illegal drugs after legalization, lessen drug users and ending the war on blacks due to drug related crimes and charges.

Block and Obioha, claims that more blacks are being prosecuted and sent straight to jail than white men due to charges related to drugs. Statistics show otherwise. James Q. Wilson’s article “Against Legalization or Decriminalization of Drugs” provides evidence in his article that a study
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The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse states that 9.9 million whites versus 2.0 million blacks were drug users. Block and Obioha contradicted themselves which made the statistic they provided difficult to understand and difficult to agree or disagree. The legalization of drugs will not only affect black men but other races as well. Whether the outcome is good or bad. Block and Obioha also states that many lives have been negatively impacted by the use of alcohol, cigarettes, prostitution, and pornography. Once again, Block and Obioha go off track when it comes to drugs. Prostitution and Pornography has nothing to do with drugs. Drugs can be involved but, not …show more content…
Drugs is drugs, no matter the race, sex, age, etc. drugs is a non-stop recurring problem across the world. Legalizing drugs will not solve any problems because if drugs are illegal now and people are still getting these substances, what is the point of legalizing them now? Our problems today will still be here whether or not drugs are legalized. Providing the substances and tools to drug users could also put other non-drug users at risk like children. The easier the needle is to get ahold of, the more common we’ll see it out in public and that could still put other people at risk for accidental exposure to a needle and then ending up with HIV, AIDS or some other type of disease a person wouldn’t want. When it comes down to it whether drugs are legalized or not, a drug user will get their drug whether it is legal or