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Cinders said:
Small time drug dealers often work for, atau at least get their product from, lebih hardcore criminals, like cartels, atau organized crime syndicates. These larger criminals use the illegal drug trade to fund their other criminal enterprises, including illegal weapons smuggling, human trafficking, and even terrorist activities.
Even less harmful drugs, like marijuana, sejak the sheer fact of being illegal, can fund such operations, which is only one lebih reason that I support the legalization of marijuana. A similar event occurred in the 1920s during the Prohibition. When alcohol was outlawed, crime syndicates used the moonshine business and opened speakeasies to capitalize on this new business opportunity. I'm no businesswoman, but I do know the simple rule that where there's a demand, like there is for alcohol, someone is going to fill it, whether the product in soalan is legal atau not. And because any supply/demand form of commercialism is potential for big business (see: hamburgers and McDonalds), just like the huge corporations we buy from every day, the drug trade is a corporate industry, and a massive one at that.
It is partly because of the massive rise in crime (and crime stories - gangsters and mafiosos in this period became quite infamous, like Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, etc) that the legislature decided to re-legalize alcohol, to cut off funding for the mafia.
So while illegal drug users are making a personal choice (good atau bad), and while small-time drug dealers have various reasons for doing what they do, it's all about going back to the top, and eliminating a hugely valuable sumber of income for other, far lebih dangerous, criminal activities.
EDIT: I had to reedit my answer when I reread your question: "drug dealers don't force someone upon drugs,they choose it,their bad,their fate,good riddance,if they wanted to be treated,rehabilitation centers are wide open." I mean no offense, but this sounds a little judgmental. Drug users are as diverse as any other group of people, and addiction is not so simple. It's not easy to even realize anda have a problem, let alone admit it, let alone want to change it, and when anda finally can do all of that, there are physical, mental and emotional consequences of withdrawal. There are also huge social leaps as drug users tend to be Friends with other drug users, and don't know anyone else, so seeking help can be isolating for them. Also, some children grow up around this activity, and get "hooked" as it were young due to dealers who give them their first taste free. Not to mention the Bayi that are born to drug addicted mothers who are literally addicted to drugs from birth.
Being an addict isn't a choice, ever. Doing drugs can be and often is a choice, but it isn't always. If children aren't considered old enough to consent for themselves with anything else, then they shouldn't be considered old enough to consent to drug use.
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