Legalizing Marijuana
Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized
What if I told you there was a one quick solution to many of our nation’s problems, such as our increasing national debt, our overpopulated prisons, our ever failing war on drugs, and even diseases previously thought of as being incurable? Now what if I told you this solution was legalizing and regulating a plant called cannabis sativa, more commonly known as marijuana? What makes more sense prohibition or legalization. Since marijuana's first recorded use dating back five thousand years ago, the plant has never gained as much popularity as in the last century during prohibition. Now, more than ever, propositions to legalize the plant have risen and been subject to controversy and heated debate. Marijuana is the most widely used drug in the United States and considered to be the most harmful by the government with its anti-marijuana stance and laws aimed at curtailing its use. With marijuana use rapidly growing in spite of prohibition, the United States national debt rising at an alarming rate, and the search for cures for seemingly 'incurable' diseases raging on, legalizing marijuana seems like
Marijuana has been part of American culture ever since Thomas Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds out of France because he considered hemp vital to America. According to a national household survey an estimated sixty million Americans use marijuana occasionally or regularly. More than 800,000 marijuana users are arrested each year ("Marijuana: Facts about Cannabis"). The main reason marijuana is currently outlawed is money. The government earns revenue from prosecuting users, jobs will be lost in "law-enforcement-judiciary-penal systems" and scientists will lose millions of dollars in grants aimed at searching for the negative effects of marijuana. "Recently, many of these same researchers have changed their opinions as they see development opportunities and hard evidence supporting marijuana's medical uses," says Ed Rosenthal, author of dozen
What if I told you there was a one quick solution to many of our nation’s problems, such as our increasing national debt, our overpopulated prisons, our ever failing war on drugs, and even diseases previously thought of as being incurable? Now what if I told you this solution was legalizing and regulating a plant called cannabis sativa, more commonly known as marijuana? What makes more sense prohibition or legalization. Since marijuana's first recorded use dating back five thousand years ago, the plant has never gained as much popularity as in the last century during prohibition. Now, more than ever, propositions to legalize the plant have risen and been subject to controversy and heated debate. Marijuana is the most widely used drug in the United States and considered to be the most harmful by the government with its anti-marijuana stance and laws aimed at curtailing its use. With marijuana use rapidly growing in spite of prohibition, the United States national debt rising at an alarming rate, and the search for cures for seemingly 'incurable' diseases raging on, legalizing marijuana seems like
Marijuana has been part of American culture ever since Thomas Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds out of France because he considered hemp vital to America. According to a national household survey an estimated sixty million Americans use marijuana occasionally or regularly. More than 800,000 marijuana users are arrested each year ("Marijuana: Facts about Cannabis"). The main reason marijuana is currently outlawed is money. The government earns revenue from prosecuting users, jobs will be lost in "law-enforcement-judiciary-penal systems" and scientists will lose millions of dollars in grants aimed at searching for the negative effects of marijuana. "Recently, many of these same researchers have changed their opinions as they see development opportunities and hard evidence supporting marijuana's medical uses," says Ed Rosenthal, author of dozen