Drugs

I was going to write about should not legalize drugs. Lavender and I talked about how I might write in support of animal research, but I think that I could write a better argument about drugs. I would mention things like how the FDA is super important in protecting people, and that if we legalize drugs, we basically undermine their existence. If we legalize drugs, large corporations will take them over, and start selling these products that don’t do anything but kill people. We are a society that really protects consumer protection, and legalizing drugs would basically be saying ‘screw you’ to protection. If we legalize drugs, then we can’t say that a company cannot release a bad drug that claims to, say, cure cancer, but while it does that, it turns your brain into mush. While I am not a big believer in all sorts of regulations, I there is something wrong with making it legal to sell a product that kills everybody. There is a lot of value in having a free society, but we cannot allow people to make a profit off of a product that kills everybody. While the United States is a society that favors giving freedom to businesses, we are also not one that favors letting them kill people. While deregulation in general is a good thing, we have to draw the line somewhere, and allowing companies to put out products that do nothing but kill the consumer is where we must draw that line.