Argumentative Essay: Marijuana Should Be Legal

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Marijuana Should Be Legal The legalization of marijuana has been an issue that has been growing more relevant every year since the early sixties when weed become more prevalent. In the past, marijuana was given a bad name because of the assumptions made against it. These assumptions were made without factual evidence, yet still sparked an interest in many who were not aware of the drug before; moreover, this newfound interest made for a separation of opinions on whether or not weed should have been made legal at the time. Recently however, the issue has come to be very controversial and prominent. This is caused by the fact that legalization has now become a possibility.
Many, if not most, pre-med students at UTA advocate the position and claim that marijuana should be legalized for medicinal use. Those with this major back up their claim by reasoning that the drug should be legalized because it helps with a multitude of diseases such as glaucoma, cancer, alzheimer’s, and many others. Medical students understand that the drug would ultimately benefit a multitude of people, and rationalize, that it should not be illegal if it could potentially save a life. These academics understand that marijuana could help medically, and use factual evidence from many different scientific studies to back up their claims. The studies maintain and prove that THC, the active chemical in marijuana that gets people high, has medical advantages that are beneficial to those with the previously mentioned health problems. “Should Marijuana Be Legalized As A Medicine? Yes, It's A Beneficial Drug,” by Lester Grinspoon is a good source that agrees with the claim that marijuana should be legalized medicinally. Grinspoon is a scientist who has done extensive research on marijuana; in the article, he thoroughly discusses and analyzes the benefits of marijuana, and why it should be legalized remedially. Grinspoon makes different claims throughout the entirety of his work in support of marijuana. When he states that, “Marijuana often proved to be more effective than legal antinauseants (Grinspoon),” Grinspoon is bringing to view one of the many medical benefits of the
Business majors at UTA would advocate this position and claim that legalization could positively benefit the economy because there would be new job opportunities, money would be funneled into American hands through increased marijuana taxes and money would also be saved because the number of prisoners arrested on marijuana charges would decrease. Most business majors would agree that a pivotal reason as to why there would be more jobs would be that if marijuana were to be legalized the demand for weed would skyrocket and open an exponentially large market. This would lead to more store ownership jobs, employee jobs, and jobs cultivating marijuana. Through the legal sale of marijuana in businesses ran by Americans, money would not only be taken from the cartels in Mexico but would also be dispersed into the American infrastructure. Not only would the influence of cartels diminish but a marijuana tax, like alcohol tax, could be put into place. The added tax would put millions of dollars back into the government and eventually back into U.S citizen’s pockets. Marijuana Antagonists would push for the added tax, if an agreement had to be made, and if it meant making weed legal than marijuana activists would be okay with the tax as well. This point of intersection can be seen between all three positions because all positions would agree that the tax would be the best option if