- Question
- Should we legalize all drugs?
This position holds that we should not legalise all drugs. It argues that drugs are dangerous and that people need legal protection from them — that legalisation would escalate addiction epidemics, increase drug-related crime, and wrongly normalise drug use across society.
Supporting arguments · 3
- Drug-related crime would increase if drugs were legalMore people using drugs means more people engaging in the dangerous behaviours associated with drug use.
- Legalizing drugs would escalate addiction epidemicsExisting addiction crises are bad enough without giving people easier access to highly addictive drugs.
- Drug use should not be normalizedLegalizing drugs would send the wrong message about drugs to children and society in general.