An Economic and Moral Case for Legalizing Cocaine and Heroin.
In the case of marijuana legalization, leaders and lawmakers are considering the ethical weight of allowing patients the medicine they need or completely preventing the abuse of an “illicit” drug. Both decisions seem “right” in their own ways but the options exclusive of each other.
Legalizing Marijuana, An Ethical Perspective In today’s society, many ethical concerns arise on a daily basis, especially when it comes to the topic of legalizing marijuana.Many individuals have relied on the fact that marijuana was illegal, when determining whether smoking it should be considered unethical.
Has the pot legalization experiment in Holland worked? De Marneffe thinks the case for legalization of marijuana is the strongest of all illegal drugs. One defense of current drug policies is that legalization of hard drugs would have the most damaging effects on youth. Lots of substances are dangerous or damaging, but they are not illegal.
To advocate the legalization of drugs calls for a legal system in which the production and sale of drugs are not criminal offenses. (p. 3) Criminalization of drugs makes the use of certain drugs a criminal offense, i.e. one deserving punishment. To argue for drug decriminalization, as Husak does, is not necessarily to argue for legalization of.
Kant would object to the push for legalization of marijuana arguing that just like other drugs, marijuana violates an individual’s duty to respect their rational nature. The notion of duties to oneself is grounded on Kant's categorical imperative: “One should act so as to treat humanity, whether in their own being or in the being of another, as an absolute end, and not as a means to.
Introduction. The essay is an in depth analysis of legalization of drugs and its negative consequences in the city of Philadelphia. Historically, the United States of America has found it self between a hard rock and a stone when it comes to the issues of drugs especially the illegal ones.
Aristotle’s theory would be in a perplex where it is believed that a terminal patient’s choice of physician assisted suicide is a virtue, and such a requirement is a manifestation of a noble moral sentiment generally accepted by the society, so that the legalization of PAS and the right of individuals to decide on the time and way to end his life may result in moral kidnapping, i.e. even.