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Years from now in another generation or two people will look back at this era as the second prohibition period in modern American history. Supporters of probation argue drugs are destructive to society and morally wrong. For the past thirty years the government has escalated the war on drugs by banning every kind of addictive drug and pumping billions of dollars into aggressive enforcement without significant success. The case for legalization of drugs is not to encourage the use of drugs but to provide a more effective means of dealing with the societal effects of drug abuse. The opposition of drug legalization usually argue “health and productivity costs would increase dramatically and the net costs to society would rise substantially”(Dupont par.27). People argue that legalization would encourage the use and abuse of drugs and would make the present situation worse. Those against legalization are rooted in the belief that legalization would corrupt our society and destroy our moral values. They claim legalization would encourage a much higher usage leading to more deaths and a greater rehabilitation cost to society. There would be greater demands for medical services and rehabilitation clinics provided by the government a