What are some ethical dilemmas for drug abuse?

Answer 1

weed has no physical addiction potential. when stopping use, the smoker may really want a spliff but there are no prevailent withdrawal symtoms weed has no physical addiction potential. when stopping use, the smoker may really want a spliff but there are no prevailent withdrawal symtoms

Answer 2

The biggest ethical isue surrounding Drug abuse is that most drug abusers think nothing about abusing those around them in order to be able to keep abusing drugs. then weakened and worn out by their habit they will expect the same people that they robbed and abused to help them with free housing medical care etc. That is really the bottom line.

Answer 3

Here are the ethical issues, in question form, regarding the legalization of marijuana:

• Is it the business of government to regulate the private lives of its citizens?
• Can an action that has no victim (other than possibly oneself) be considered a crime?
• What happened (in the US) to the American ideal of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? If marijuana makes people happy, do they not have the right to pursue that happiness?
• Would legalization of marijuana actually cause more people to smoke it?
• Does the harm done by enriching criminal organizations through the creation of a black market in marijuana outweigh the harm that marijuana smokers do to themselves by indulging in recreational drug use?
• Given that marijuana has known, important medical uses, such as the alleviation of nausea, and the treatment of glaucoma, can we justify banning it just because some people use it recreationally?
• Is it better to legalize marijuana to create a new taxable sector of the economy, in order to rescue bankrupt governments such as the state government of California, than it is to maintain our moral opposition to recreational drug use?
• Is it not hypocritical of us to be so opposed to the recreational use of marijuana when we at the same time allow and even glorify the recreational use of alcohol? And we also allow (but no longer glorify) the recreational use of tobacco, a drug that is unquestionably more lethal than marijuana. How can we justify such moral inconsistency?
• What really is the moral difference between using marijuana to make you happy and using a legal anti-depressant or other prescribed medication to do the same thing?

Answer 4

1. poor people who need it can't afford it so should the government pay for them to use drugs that were previously illegal, then possibly end up doing substance abuse

2. it's pretty good for the underground economy…what are all those drug lords gonna do now that their weed is legal?

3. who can sell it and would there be limits to who can have more than others, or is it just the amount your money can pay for?

4. should there be rehab centres for weed addiction?

5. what do you say to all those pot-head teens?

Answer 5

It is not an ethical issue. The real issue is the federal governments point of view and each of the 50 States that form the United States of America. Is it ethical for the Federal Government to decide everything for the individual citizen.

Answer 6

They are debating as to weither to allow the use of Marijuana in the medical field or to just have it be banned.

Answer 7

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