NAME: CAI WEIXIAO
BSU ID: 900948775
The natural medicine named marijuana has a lot of functions: relieving pain, alleviating glaucoma, decreasing nausea and stimulating appetite. But last year, police officers arrested about 650 thousand citizens in U.S. who just hold their small quantity of marijuana, not sale. In most location in the world, using and holding marijuana is still illegal. Public tend to believe that marijuana is same as other narcotics, it will lead to crime, and makes users losing the ability of labor. Nevertheless, some people fight for the right of using marijuana in recent years, they believe that legalization of marijuana leads to great benefits: in some cases, marijuana can replace painkiller and a part of medicine without the side effect and higher price; also it will reduce government cost in the governance of crime; with permissible selling, huge profits moves out from black market, injects into business market and government tax revenue.
It is generally believed that marijuana absolutely is a narcotic, means it is highly addictive. For example, without marijuana, people who often use it can’t concentrate on, they will be mad and out of control. Also most of people think using marijuana regularly is injuring user’s brain. Besides that, they think government need pay much more attention and money to administrate and supervise, if legalization of marijuana realizes. With these in mind, conservative people refuse to allow selling marijuana.
In fact, marijuana has been proven helpful for treating the variety of medical conditions, legalization of marijuana adds a new choice to people who are being injured by illness. For example, medical marijuana can help reduce some painful effects of autoimmune diseases, “The main psychoactive agent in weed, THC, could quell festering, raw tissues by suppressing the body’s immune system” (Michael