Should Legalizing Marijuana Be Legalized
Marijuana, also known as pot, weed, or cannabis is used by many individuals, for the most part illegally. Usually teenagers, some adults, and people who are prescribed to it because of their diseases such as cancer use this drug. Marijuana is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried, shredded leaves and flowers of cannabis sativa. The first sighting of cannabis was in Central and South Asia many years ago. Although marijuana is viewed by some as addictive and dangerous, its legalization is an important move in creating alternative medical treatments, helping the economy by decreasing the number of people prosecuted for its sale, and bringing money into the tax base.
Marijuana was not considered a social threat. “Marijuana has been used as an agent …show more content…
“American history has a good analog for cannabis prohibition: alcohol prohibition. With both, use of the substance did not stop, laws were selectively enforced and violent gangs made staggering profits filling a market law-abiding merchants could no longer touch. In the end, despite alcohols costs to bodily health, and the alarming effects it can have behavior, it was determined, rightly, that criminalizing alcohol did more harm than good (“6 powerful reasons”).” Marijuana is very much less addictive than alcohol or tobacco. Moderate use of marijuana does not appear to pose a risk. The more people that examine evidence, the less it seems there is any reason at all for it to be not legalized. “Legalization supporters argue that no one has ever died from an overdose of this “soft” drug” (“Marijuana Legalization? …show more content…
Even tho marijuana is a drug, it still does great things to help our community. It helps people with diseases such as depression, cancer, and even multiple sclerosis, it cures pain. Although marijuana is viewed by some as addictive and dangerous, its legalization is an important move in creating alternative medical treatments, helping the economy by decreasing the number of people prosecuted for its sale, and bringing money into the tax
Marijuana was not considered a social threat. “Marijuana has been used as an agent …show more content…
“American history has a good analog for cannabis prohibition: alcohol prohibition. With both, use of the substance did not stop, laws were selectively enforced and violent gangs made staggering profits filling a market law-abiding merchants could no longer touch. In the end, despite alcohols costs to bodily health, and the alarming effects it can have behavior, it was determined, rightly, that criminalizing alcohol did more harm than good (“6 powerful reasons”).” Marijuana is very much less addictive than alcohol or tobacco. Moderate use of marijuana does not appear to pose a risk. The more people that examine evidence, the less it seems there is any reason at all for it to be not legalized. “Legalization supporters argue that no one has ever died from an overdose of this “soft” drug” (“Marijuana Legalization? …show more content…
Even tho marijuana is a drug, it still does great things to help our community. It helps people with diseases such as depression, cancer, and even multiple sclerosis, it cures pain. Although marijuana is viewed by some as addictive and dangerous, its legalization is an important move in creating alternative medical treatments, helping the economy by decreasing the number of people prosecuted for its sale, and bringing money into the tax