Around 400 billion dollars are spending annually on illegal drugs. Persons all around the world buy drugs because they are addictive or they are only experimenting. Illegal drugs are used for boredom, to fit in, experimentation, etc. They come in different forms and shapes, each different drug cause different effects on each person. And commonly when a person begin to consume drugs, became addicts and begin to abuse drugs. There are many kinds of illegal drugs and all of them affect your body and the society. The most common ones are Marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, meth, LSD, and heroin.
The 400 billion dollars that are spending annually on illegal drugs include all the cases related with drugs. These means that these value relates: drug traffic, drug addicts, drug crimes, drug overdoses, etc. and these also include the money that traffickers expend on buying drugs. Imagine how many things a person can do with 400 million dollars, there was a study that show that with 700 billion dollars a person could buy the 27 NFL teams 27 times, a persons could buy 60 inch HDTV for every man, woman and child in the U.S, buy 439 pound of rice for every single person in Africa. 700 billion dollars is more than 400, but imagine a person with 400 billion dollars! The world will change
There are many plans for drugs prevention and severe consequences for traffickers of drugs, but persons don’t care about these. All persons related with drugs, will never imagine this sum of money that is expended on drugs. Government and people have to take consciousness and try to reduce these amount of money, because if is reduced the money could be invested in areas like poverty, health, transportation, thing that will be useful for humans.
Do you thing legalizing drugs will reduce this sum?
What would be the best strategies for reducing this amount of money?
This problem is the fault of the government or the society?
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