Argumentative Essay On Legalization Of Marijuana

For 80 years Marijuana prohibition, the standard fallback position throughout most states, is undergoing the next phase of transition. Politicians, and corporate entities have utilized outdated, and unproven information to continue the war against this drug, and its users. The arguments about why prohibition started, and continue is varied -- it seems complicated, but is it really? Just because something appears complicated, does not mean the facts hold to that view. Some scholars, citizens, and social scientists believe that prohibition of marijuana is due to its lack of medical use and addictive nature, others feel that it is due to political, or corporate greed, while some see racist motivations as a factor into the ongoing prohibition by the federal government. Yet, it would surprise many to find that out these factors have been all been at the core of the marijuana debate at one time or another, or at times simultaneously.
There has been a constant state of conflict between law makers, and the citizens of the United States surrounding marijuana legalization ever since Harry J. Anslinger became the first commissioner of the U.S Treasury Departments Federal Bureau of Narcotics. How has the
Blau, further argue the use of racism and xenophobia in the form of conflict in “Select Social History of the Psychoactive Drugs: Tobacco, Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine, & Heroin”, by addressing the ingrained prejudices against immigrants and ethnic groups (Gullotta & Blau, 1995). The forming of our nation came with conflicts between Europeans, and indigenous groups – and the perceived “savagery”, a feeling of anomie was created by the advent of the industrial revolution and the shift of skills, and the assumed loss of job positions to immigrants as the nation grew. These conflicts between groups, social norms, and socioeconomic turmoil created an atmosphere that lent itself to misconceptions about marijuana’s usefulness verses the