Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

Seiji Groome
The Legalization of Marijuana (Ganja)
The legalization of Marijuana is a widely debated topic. When the public say "legalizing marijuana" refers to whether or not the public should be allowed to grow, sell, buy or consume marijuana. Many organizations have been pushing governments to legalize marijuana. For some Marijuana has a greater use in the medical system others think that it may have a greater negative long term effect on the body in areas such as the brain. Either way Marijuana can damage or heal the users, the public or the economy.
Firstly, one of the many reasons that the public think Marijuana should be legalized is that it is proven that Marijuana has no greater affect on the human body as tobacco or alcohol, if taken casually in moderate amounts but on the other hand like most things if taken more than the body may be able to handle it can cause harm. Furthermore tobacco and alcohol are both legal and widely used in the world, if the uses of these legal drugs are as harmful as marijuana what makes them so different? Shouldn’t they also be banned or limited?
Next many the public think that the use of drugs in general is wrong, because religious regulations prohibit the use of intoxicating substances.
Therefore legalizing marijuana would be like legalizing something that breaks these regulations. Crime and violence has increased due to the illegal selling and purchasing of marijuana. The public think that legalizing it may end or certainly lower the need such criminal behavior. Drug related disputes will come to an end and drug gangs would lose their importance helping police concentrate more on serious crimes. Indirect smoking would affect the public as it is harmful and secondhand smoke from the marijuana users increases the chances of others suffering the damage by inhaling the smoke if in an area of
smokers.
Subsequently Marijuana is believed to be seen way in that may lead the public to do harder drugs such as heroin, cocaine etc. these drugs may be addicted to by the public and may cause great harm to them. Also if the public do marijuana illegally and therefore become addicted to it they may do anything to gain access to it which may increase the levels of drug related crimes.
Next Marijuana is one of the popular agricultural products in the world having many major destinations of farming. If the figures of the sales are correct from which the public gain for selling the product, if the product was legal this may raise countries out of debt and other financial problems.
So in conclusion as you may relies from these brief statements of legalizing marijuana is that on one hand it can be used for things such as the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patient. But on the other hand it can harm the public if over used but that isn’t a strong point as that can happen from the uses of other legal drugs. As many the public smoke the drug which may cause Respiratory health hazards which can be eliminated by consuming marijuana by non-smoking methods e.g.: baked foods, or vaporizer. Like everything, it has pros and cons but it has a slightly higher pro side than con therefore there is reason why it is such a strongly debated topic whether it should be legalized or not.