Why Trudeau Should Not Legalize Marijuana Analysis
Why Trudeau Should Not Legalize Cannabis
Introduction
In Canada, approximately 47,000 deaths that are related to substance abuse occur each year (Teen Challenge). Drug addiction is an immensely growing issue in our society, especially among our youth. Over the past few decades, the youth drug rates have decreased, but with the impending legalization of marijuana, the future leads to increasing rates. The Trudeau government has passed a bill to legalized marijuana in the early summer of 2018. Many people state that marijuana is not a drug, simply because it is not a “hard” drug. The risks of marijuana are like any drug, it will effect your mind, body and behaviour.
CEEPS Analysis
Over the course of the semester, CEEPS has been used and discussed several times. Legalizing marijuana falls into many of these categories, with different effects on each. The Canadian economy will be greatly affected if marijuana is in fact legalized. Legalizing marijuana will affect the economy, but in a extremely miniscule way. Both Canada’s federal and provincial government is supposed to see 5 billion dollars in tax revenues from marijuana (CIBC World Markets). This $5 billion did not include the “enormous undertaking of building the necessary framework to support legalization” …show more content…
If anyone over the age of 18 can walk into a store down the street and buy marijuana, the rates will increase a lot. Organized crime will not lose profit because of all the other drugs illicitly sold in Canada. Due to the high production of meth in Canada, there has been an increase of crime if the drug is involved (Canadian Centre for Addictions).Other popular drugs in Canada are LSD, cocaine and prescriptions. 60% of teens who are victims of drug abuse already get their drugs from friends or family (Canadian Addiction Rehab), which will not change when the government makes the legal age to buy cannabis 18 or
Introduction
In Canada, approximately 47,000 deaths that are related to substance abuse occur each year (Teen Challenge). Drug addiction is an immensely growing issue in our society, especially among our youth. Over the past few decades, the youth drug rates have decreased, but with the impending legalization of marijuana, the future leads to increasing rates. The Trudeau government has passed a bill to legalized marijuana in the early summer of 2018. Many people state that marijuana is not a drug, simply because it is not a “hard” drug. The risks of marijuana are like any drug, it will effect your mind, body and behaviour.
CEEPS Analysis
Over the course of the semester, CEEPS has been used and discussed several times. Legalizing marijuana falls into many of these categories, with different effects on each. The Canadian economy will be greatly affected if marijuana is in fact legalized. Legalizing marijuana will affect the economy, but in a extremely miniscule way. Both Canada’s federal and provincial government is supposed to see 5 billion dollars in tax revenues from marijuana (CIBC World Markets). This $5 billion did not include the “enormous undertaking of building the necessary framework to support legalization” …show more content…
If anyone over the age of 18 can walk into a store down the street and buy marijuana, the rates will increase a lot. Organized crime will not lose profit because of all the other drugs illicitly sold in Canada. Due to the high production of meth in Canada, there has been an increase of crime if the drug is involved (Canadian Centre for Addictions).Other popular drugs in Canada are LSD, cocaine and prescriptions. 60% of teens who are victims of drug abuse already get their drugs from friends or family (Canadian Addiction Rehab), which will not change when the government makes the legal age to buy cannabis 18 or