Argumentative Essay: The Legalization Of Marijuana
The Legalization of Marijuana
As we know today, the recreational use of marijuana or cannabis has been extremely prevalent in our society and also in early civilizations as well. That is why I am here to argue the complete legalization of marijuana, not only for medicinal use but recreational as well.
Marijuana has been around since the early Egyptians. From 2000 B.C, “Egyptians used cannabis to treat eye sores. A millennium later, doctors in India could be found mixing the weed with milk to use as an anesthetic” (Webley 1). Farmers in the nineteenth century were urged to grow hemp. They also kept a journal on the plant’s medicinal effectiveness.
“Such endorsements slowed and eventually became nonexistent after 1937, when the Marihuana Tax Act effectively banned the drug in the U.S. In 1996, California approved marijuana for medical use in treating cancer, AIDS, chronic pain and other illnesses” (Webley 1). All other states made cannabis completely illegal but as time passes more states have legalized the use of medicinal marijuana. Then two years ago on November sixth, Colorado and Washington were the first two states to legalize …show more content…
“Congress is locked in a titanic struggle over how to reduce the nation 's $14.2 trillion federal debt without stalling the fragile economic recovery” (Clemmitt 1). Should America stop funding the war on marijuana, we would see our nation’s debt greatly decrease. Since 1971, when Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs, the United States has spent over a trillion dollars to fight this war. Unfortunately for Americans, the trillion that we spent has been merely wasted. There is now 2.3 million citizens locked up behind bars and over half of them are in there for a drug violation. The United States keeps dumping tons of money into this war when it is not effective at all. I am still able to wake up and make one phone call to get however much marijuana I can
As we know today, the recreational use of marijuana or cannabis has been extremely prevalent in our society and also in early civilizations as well. That is why I am here to argue the complete legalization of marijuana, not only for medicinal use but recreational as well.
Marijuana has been around since the early Egyptians. From 2000 B.C, “Egyptians used cannabis to treat eye sores. A millennium later, doctors in India could be found mixing the weed with milk to use as an anesthetic” (Webley 1). Farmers in the nineteenth century were urged to grow hemp. They also kept a journal on the plant’s medicinal effectiveness.
“Such endorsements slowed and eventually became nonexistent after 1937, when the Marihuana Tax Act effectively banned the drug in the U.S. In 1996, California approved marijuana for medical use in treating cancer, AIDS, chronic pain and other illnesses” (Webley 1). All other states made cannabis completely illegal but as time passes more states have legalized the use of medicinal marijuana. Then two years ago on November sixth, Colorado and Washington were the first two states to legalize …show more content…
“Congress is locked in a titanic struggle over how to reduce the nation 's $14.2 trillion federal debt without stalling the fragile economic recovery” (Clemmitt 1). Should America stop funding the war on marijuana, we would see our nation’s debt greatly decrease. Since 1971, when Richard Nixon declared the war on drugs, the United States has spent over a trillion dollars to fight this war. Unfortunately for Americans, the trillion that we spent has been merely wasted. There is now 2.3 million citizens locked up behind bars and over half of them are in there for a drug violation. The United States keeps dumping tons of money into this war when it is not effective at all. I am still able to wake up and make one phone call to get however much marijuana I can