How Legalizing Marijuana Will Hurt America Analysis
What if I told you there was a magical drug that can help lower crime rates, help our economy, and help cure diseases? Well America there is. You mite have heard of this magical substance before, marijuana, and some might say "well if so great why is it illegal?". Many people have different opinions about the subject, but Joseph Turner opinion stood out in his article " How Legalizing Marijuana Will Hurt Americans Long-Term". Joseph Turner is a social worker who believes marijuana, despite all its merical work, should stay illegal, but I disagree.
Not only would it help America but others as well. Joseph Turner tries to tie marijuana with schizophrenia and other manifestations of mental illness. When in fact there …show more content…
Amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs is more than
$51,000,000,000 per year. In 2005, the United Nations estimated the global illegal drug trade is worth more than $320 billion. As of right now the only people who are truly benefiting from this revenue of drug dealing is your local gangs. Some 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members are criminally active in the U.S. and Puerto Rico today.
These are gangs in your city even you backyards. Many are sophisticated and well organized; all use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities, which include robbery, and gun trafficking, prostitution and human trafficking, and fraud, but the biggest source of income is drug trafficking. You can't feel safe knowing all this happening in your neighborhoods where your children play. There are, on average, 2,000 gang-related homicides each year, according to 2007 through
2012 data from the National Youth Gang Center. Comparatively, there are around
Not only would it help America but others as well. Joseph Turner tries to tie marijuana with schizophrenia and other manifestations of mental illness. When in fact there …show more content…
Amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs is more than
$51,000,000,000 per year. In 2005, the United Nations estimated the global illegal drug trade is worth more than $320 billion. As of right now the only people who are truly benefiting from this revenue of drug dealing is your local gangs. Some 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members are criminally active in the U.S. and Puerto Rico today.
These are gangs in your city even you backyards. Many are sophisticated and well organized; all use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities, which include robbery, and gun trafficking, prostitution and human trafficking, and fraud, but the biggest source of income is drug trafficking. You can't feel safe knowing all this happening in your neighborhoods where your children play. There are, on average, 2,000 gang-related homicides each year, according to 2007 through
2012 data from the National Youth Gang Center. Comparatively, there are around