do you think drugs should be legalized.??..think again...

I was jolted out of my morning blues with one half being in the dream where my friend is still debating on the point that “Narcotic drug should be legalized in India” and my other half highly disheartened of the fact that its 8:20 on the clock. As I got on with my morning ablutions, the thoughts of last night talks haunted me and I was deeply moved by some of views of my friend.

According to him narcotic drugs should be legalized because

1.Right now the budget allotted for the rehabilitation of the drug addicts is very negligible or in other sense they are neglected. so if you legalize it then, the revenue obtained would be more and can be used for rehabilitation processes in a better way and can be used for generating awareness among masses about its harmful effects.
2.The crime level comes down drastically.
3.The money spend on the proceedings of court cases related to narcotic drugs sale and distribution can be avoided by which you are saving the revenue of the state.

Keeping in mind the problems faced by the contemporary India and of being a student of sociology it was not that easy for me to digest it .So as the first step of its analysis I started searching for its dictionary meaning of narcotic because my friend said there are many narcotic drugs which are not that addictive and cause problems, and dictionary says:

narcotic /nar·cot·ic/ (nahr-kot´ic)
1. pertaining to or producing narcosis.
2. an agent that produces insensibility or stupor, especially an opioid.Harmful and highly addictive if used repeatedly.

And if you analyze the entire range of narcotic drugs you would find that majority are addictive in nature and cause mental instability. Now one might claim that it can be used as an pain killer and for other therapeutic use .But by making it legalized and letting the common people use freely wont lead to its appropriate use especially in a country like India where bribery, adulteration ,trafficking and vested interest are the mindset of the people will lead to its absolute misuse.

Secondly, looking into the crimes associated with the narcotic drugs sale, distribution and the crimes committed by people who gets addicted by these drugs, one would find that in current scenario crimes of the former kind is higher than the latter kinds of crimes as claimed by my friend. So my friend says if you legalize it then crimes of the first kind will disappear and the crime as a whole would eventually come down. Now to think that way is a different level of irrationality because to decrease crime which is nothing but violation of law you change the definition of law it self, by which it is no longer a crime and hence claiming that the crime rate is reduced is highly illogical.
But does the immorality associated with this act get washed away??.NO,before immorality was associated with people who were selling it and once it is legalized it is the state ,the immorality factor has just shifted from some people to the state.

Thirdly, let’s assume that we have made narcotic drugs legalized. In such a situation every “paan” shop and every petty shop which are selling cigarettes and “gutkas” would now starts selling narcotic drugs in various forms. And majority of people who consumes gutka’s and cigarettes would switch to drug variant of these. People who take breaks between their work to “fag”of the pressure will start to “dope” of the pressure .And then different varieties of “indigenous drugs “will also come into the market and spurious forms of these will lead to different social tragedies. The biggest example is the fact that alcohol which is legalized in India is causing a lot of major social problems. The mirror image of these problem is the recent hooch tragedy. One can’t even visualize its social implications. Death toll reached 112,think of those family who lost their beloved ones, who were the only earning member of the family ,think of the mother’s who lost their sons and those sister’s who lost their loving brother. I know its hard to think unless it happens to one,right. Its implication in society does not stop there. This has resulted in a political clash between the major parties of the place . The “bandh” organized has affected schools, colleges, shops and all the major institutions of the state, the harmony of the state is disturbed.112 dead many more in the critical situation .If alcohol was not legalized then tragedies of these kinds won’t have happened in such a larger sphere.

The above example just implies that things of narcotic nature will cause mental instability in the society and in case of drugs its going to be more severe because if majority get addicted then the very existence of society looks bleak and hazy. If people itself is not there to listen to, whom will you give awareness with the revenue obtained as a part of legalizing drugs. And about the crimes its highly illogical to change the laws to abate its violation ,to reduce crime. And we should not forget that when one crime stops, another would appear for eg:if drug is legalized then drug trafficking(which now is severely punishable by law and is controlled to a large extend) would emerge has one of the major crime and controlling that would be impossible because only if victims are in their senses they can refuse and retaliate or help find the criminals . So eventually in india crime would rise . On the other hand it might be true that there must be places were drugs would have made legalized and things would have become better ,that’s because of the reasons that the administration over there would have been very effective in regulating it, at the same time majority of the people over there would be well aware of the harmful effect of narcotic drugs. And very interestingly you would not find the strong family values in those places. In short legalizing narcotic drugs in India in current scenario would eventually lead to serious crimes , physically and mentally would weaken the majority of young people who is the backbone of developing India and eventually ,causing a instability in society which would hamper the traditional values and pluralism which is the Soul of India.