So what if nothing is done about the Drug Problem?

For the last month or so I have been blogging about if drugs should be legalized or if they should remain illegal but the war on drugs should seize. However, there is also the possibility that nothing will change, and drugs will continue to be illegal while the government fights against drug lords. This means that the number of lives that are being lost because of the drug war will continue increasing. 20 years ago the alarming number of casualties happened in Colombia, but since 2006 more than ten thousand people have lost their lives in Mexico. This will also mean that the numbers of people who use drugs won’t decrease, a research study showed that about 1 in 5 people had used drugs at least once, and 46% of the people between ages 18 and 21 admitted to have use them. I found this article, which supports my vision of what will happen in the future if drugs are still illegal. It predicts that by 2020 the number of drug addicts will double, it also points out that the reason why older people use drugs is because of emotional problems such as the deaths of friends and relatives. One last thing is the issue of sentencing people who were found with possession of illicit drugs. In this site there are sentences of people who were found with an illicit drug. Most of the people were sentenced to more than a year or two in jail and then to at least 2 years of probation, some even got monetary fined. If this continues, jails are going to be full of drug users who are arrested for small possessions of illicit drugs and sentenced to long periods of time.

To sum it all up, if this problem is not resolved there will be more deaths caused by the drug war, more drug addicts, and more people in jail.