According to Gore Vidal, drugs are to be available to people and sold in stores. He thinks that pot is good for you and is not a “big time drug”. Most of Vidal’s statements are arrogant and untruthful. He even admitted that he has tried every drug on the street. No wonder he is writing a persuasive essay on why drugs should be legalized. In addition, Vidal states that the government will lose money if marijuana and other drugs were legalized. I disagree with all of Vidal’s points and don’t think that we should legalize harmful and sometimes deadly drugs (such as heroine). According to a new government study, through the last decade, heroin-related deaths remained more common in New York than opioid painkiller-related deaths. In 2013, heroin overdose caused 6.2 deaths per 100,000 New Yorkers, the highest rate in a decade. To sum up, drugs should not be legalized and nobody should ever do heroin.