Ensayo en inglés acerca de las drogas

Why are cigarettes and alcohol sold in kiosks while other drugs are not?

Everybody knows that, most of times, you can’t ask for marihuana or cocaine in a kiosk, but certainly there will be noproblem if you want to buy some beer or cigarettes. However, many scientists think that the exclusion of alcohol and tobacco from the list of illegal drugs is simply arbitrary because they are as harmfulas some illegal drugs such as marijuana. For example, Tobacco causes 40 percent of all hospital illnesses, while alcohol is blamed for more than half of all visits to hospital emergency rooms.Besides, they state that while the harm factor is basically the same, marijuana, helps people with painful critical illnesses like cancer, MS and glaucoma. Therefore, we could ask ourselves why some drugsas alcohol and tobacco are legal while other drugs are not.
Firstly, to answer that question we need to bear in mind that politicians and legislators base in not only medical aspects, but also socialpolicy and accepted norms, which means that cultural and moral values are taken into consideration when the legalization of a drug is discussed. Alcohol and tobacco are firmly accepted andestablished in our culture and our history: they are part of our habits and traditions. For example, many people drink wine at dinner or smoke a cigarette while they are in a reunion. This kind of drugs aredeeply rooted in our life and socially accepted.
On the other hand, if we want to understand the reason why these drugs are legal we must consider, as well as the social habits, the power of theadvertising and the companies. We live in a world surrounded by all kind of advertising in streets, TV, newspapers, magazines. It makes such an operation in our consciousness that turns the productirresistible. Even more, we see in the advertising the handsome cowboy who smokes a cigarette and is the bravest person alive or the young people who open a bottle of beer or any other drink and start an...