Inadequacies of Prohibition

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by the positive and negative consequences of drug-taking. However, because people weigh the different outcomes of drug use differently, and because there is a small amount of scientific data on a non-prohibited state, it is hard to have an academic debate. In turn, the debate is often made up of social stigmas created by governmental policies and campaigns. The United Nations Drug Committee have stated drug addiction as “a serious evil… fraught with social and economic danger to mankind” as well “a duty to combat against…”(2005). These policies have set a bias conversation of drug use. Nonetheless, it is still important to have a scientific discussion based on empirical evidence without societal perspectives and personal biases’. It is also important to state that drug use and prohibition is often overlooked as a singular phenomenon, when in fact there is a multitude of drugs and users having a variety of different outcomes. For example, it is often not stated in the ...

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countries for 10 years. The study looked at cannabis drug use with different legislative actions/penalties. They found “in this 10-year period, for the countries in question, no simple association can be observed between legal changes and cannabis use prevalence”(2012). Similarly, the World Health Organization studied 17 countries and concluded that “Globally, drug use is not distributed evenly and is not simply related to drug policy, since countries with stringent user-level illegal drug policies did not have lower levels of use than countries with liberal ones (p.5).”
The disconnect between drug policy and drug use is often credited to environmental and psychological ...

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