We did an activity in class this week that dealt with drug descriptions and matching the level of legality for each. We did not know the names of each drug and we weren't supposed to try and figure that out. Simply we had to categorize the drugs as legal over the counter, legal prescription, illegal misdemeanor, or illegal felony. It was interesting to see how some of the legal drugs we categorized as illegal and vise versa. Based on the descriptions my group put heroine in the legal prescription category, while we put nicotine in the misdemeanor category. We had several debates about weather certain drugs should be legal or not based on the severity of effects. For the warnings on nearly every single one there was a "possibility of death". This just goes to show that any drug, no matter how common, can be dangerous if you abuse it. If a person were walking around on the streets with a bottle of aspirin then people wouldn't think anything of it, even if their plan was to go pop 10 at a time around the next corner. But if someone were shooting up heroine on the streets, not only would people think something of it, but everyone would know as cops would be on this person. Reason being? This is an act of deviance and not only out of the norm, but illegal. People residing behind prison bars are there because of one reason: they participated in illegal deviance. It is crazy to hear cases of someone selling marijuana being in prison for longer than someone murdering their spouse. That just doesn't seem right, but because of the War on Drugs in America the amount of people in prison caught with possession of drugs has sky rocketed. In my opinion, if you intentionally end another person's life, then you don't deserve to continue living yours after minimal punishment. No, we shouldn't physically end murderers lives by means of death sentence, but we should technically end them by keeping them locked up until their death. Their only option then is to live their lives, yet in the worst conditions possible. We shouldn't sympathize with killers, but rather give them a taste of their own medicine, torture.
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I agree, I never understand why people who are involved with drugs should be locked up longer than someone who hurt another person. The person with drugs is just stupid and did this to themselves, while a murder killed someone else and therefore should be in kail automatically for a longer time than someone who got caught with marijuana.
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