Arguments For Legalizing Marijuana

Legalize it, Don’t Criticize It Jacob Cecil Brigham Young University-Idaho

Abstract In Jacob Cecil’s paper, who is a BYU-Idaho student majoring in social work talks about controversial topic on the legalization of marijuana. He focuses in on few core topics that heavily impact individual’s views on this topic. The one fiery debate that he goes into how it’s surfaced again is the prohibition of marijuana, then he fires into the effects on the body mentally and physically. Then dives into the medical marijuana benefits, the effects on our society, and goes right into the impact on our economy with taxes and prison. Even though there is a good chunk against legalization,
The argument that I am laying out to you is the legalization of marijuana for both medical and leisure purposes. This argument does not pertain for marijuana being healthy for us or for illegal drugs to be legalized. Furthermore, it is more geared in the direction of marijuana in the medical world and its health benefits in association to legal substances. First, I want to explain some vocabulary in this argument that I feel needs to be explored. When the female bud of the Sativa plant and leaves dry out becomes what is it is commonly known as marijuana. The key ingredient of marijuana which has many benefits is Tetrahydrocannabinol, which is normally called THC. One definition I feel is very important to talk about is the decriminalization. The simple way to explain this concept is that presents a dismissal of any criminal punishment for possessing marijuana in any circumstances, but could have limitations which result with some sort of fine without serving time in person. The government approval is the only way to have legalization of marijuana. The skirmish between drug dealers and the law enforcement is what is known as the Drug
This is looked at to be the standard when the FDA decides on favoring a drug for therapeutic purposes. There has been a few varies test done by our government that proves that marijuana has medical benefits. The rivals stated that Marinol, the alternative use of THC eliminates the reason to use marijuana for beneficial purposes. There have been expensive tests done by different institutes that have proven that Marinol is not as useful as smoking. In a 2012 Report by National Academics Press “there are other elements marijuana has that help patients in ways that Marinol cannot.”(p.137) The issues with Marinol is that it take a while for it to kick in, more expensive, and patients are higher for too long of a time frame compared to smoking marijuana. The fact that many patients use marijuana for nausea and patients are throwing it back up because Marinol is taken in a pill approach, which defeats the whole