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Nowadays, drug crime has become a severe social probem all over the world, especially in the developed contries such as the United State, Japan and the United Kingdom. There is no effective method to decrease the amount of drug usage even though people have realised the detrimental influence on our society. At the mean time, some people claim that drug usage can be minimised if they are legalised. However, this essay will be in the another side of this argument and demonstrates that more harms would be brought when drag became legal.

There is one argument which is claimed by Critchley (2008) , a supporter of drug legalisation, which is that " the benefits to society of the fall in crime as a result of legalisation would be dramatic". He takes the tobacco legalisation for example, and claim that the amount of tobacco users can be controlled by government control, education programs and taxation. So Drug users can also be control after the drugs are decriminalised as tobacco.

However, there is one piece of evidence to refute Critchley's argument. According to Oliver (2008), there are fewer than 6% of drug users among people whose age is between 15 and 64 around the world and there would be more people become addicted to drugs. Globally, there are about 20% of people smoke which is not true as Crichley said that tobacco can be controlled. So after drugs are legalised, there may be a great increase in population who are adicted to drugs.

There is another piece of evidence to support the thesis of this essay which is the lack of self-control of youngsters. It is a fact that 23% of those aged 16-24 use drug in the UK, but it still a small part. Most of people are curious of the feeling after using drugs. Even though, they do not use them due them due to the illegal of using drugs. After the legalization of those drugs, those youngsters who are lake of self-control would get into the habit of taking drugs.