It is a tough topic to choose a side on, it may make things worse or it may make things a lot better when it comes to crime. Would it make things worse or better? Would crime slow down or progress to a higher level? Would stronger drugs become the norm on the street?
Legalising marijuana has been a question brought up quite a bit in Canada, and especially British Columbia. I feel that it would fix things, and crime would go down for only a short period of time, and then it would climb back up only with higher production of harder drugs such as methamphetamines and XTC. Which would make things worse over-all in the end.
In downtown Vancouver a few years ago there was a café that felt that the country was ready for marijuana to be just overlooked as tobacco smoke is, and they began to sell marijuana over the counter at their café. They did this for months and no one said anything about it, everyone thought it was fine and there were no charges pressed. This location was forced to shut down only once the media had gotten word of it and only then, since it was brought to the attention of the country was the government and law enforcement forced to take action and close down the café and press charges.
Why wasn’t anything said about the café before it was mediated? Are people actually ready for marijuana to be legalised? I think this is the only explanation for what happened.
If this does happen, and marijuana is legalised, I believe that our problems will just grow from there on out with harder drugs moving in. Drugs will never disappear, but we can keep them as they are and stall the growing process.
