Legalizing marijuana will not only benefit the users but the us economy could be stabilized if this drug was legalized. First of too much money is being out into the war on drugs,contributing to the useless spending the country already does. For instance 16 billion dollars of your tax paying dollars goes towards keeping marijuana under control. But you may want to task yourself is it really working. We send so much money to keep it at bay,but yet most of the people who are locked is because of small crimes that include marijuana offenses.
Every year our state has to spend a large sum of money on supervising marijuana because it is illegal. But once Proposition 19 is passed, those marijuana offenders and drug traffickers will be innocent. “The measure could result in savings to the state and local governments by reducing the number of marijuana offenders incarcerated in state prisons and county jails, as well as the number placed under county probation or state parole supervision”(Brown 14). This could save California millions of dollars annually.
With the legalization of marijuana brought about in California, there would be a drastic reduction of crime in a broad range of areas. Firstly, with marijuana legalized, the state jailing system could make more room for actual criminals, under the new law, by removing almost 80,000 inmates who are currently being detained under marijuana charges and as many as 50,000 of them, at least, being charged only on misdemeanor suspicion. With this immense amount of extra room created in the jailing facilities, police work would be more greatly and justly rewarded when the criminals they capture actually have a place to serve out there sentence, rather than being released early with a slap on the wrist due to overcrowding. Without focusing on the unscientific myths of marijuana the herbal plant is, at most, a euphoric intoxicant, an herb that induces sleep, hunger, happiness, and or drowsiness, no effects that have ever been proven to cause violence or harmful acts to ones self or other, while alcohol and other inebriants are regularly sold in corner stores and markets across the country, causing pain, sickness, and death to those who partake without responsible regard, and even to some who do. Crime in California, in regard to marijuana, is often due to gang members robbing each other over turf to sell illegal marijuana, over marijuana fields being robbed by other gangs, groups, and common
If people took action and the government legalized it today, I’m sure we would see progress. People suffering from manic depression to Multiple Sclerosis would be able to experience relief. The government could make billions of dollars off of the taxes it could impose on its sale, and its implementation into the industrial world would create thousands of new jobs for the economy. Also, because of its role making in paper making, the rain forests of South Africa can be saved from their current fate of extinction. No recorded deaths have been recorded as a result of marijuana use, it is not physically addictive like alcohol or tobacco, and doctors will agree it is safer to use than most substances.
Why Drugs Are Bad Drugs have been a nonstop war with the government for centuries. Marijuana is currently the most abused drug in the USA. The US government has tried many strategies to get rid of Marijuana. Strategies to get rid of marijuana include busting drug dealers and giving fun facts about Marijuana to stop people from abusing it. The legalization of marijuana would be unbeneficial to society because teenagers have a higher risk for dropping out, Marijuana is harmful to the brain and there are dangers related to addiction.
My answer is no I think it would just cause more problems than it would solve. I believe marijuana is a good use for medicinal purposes but if it was legalized very few people would be using it medicinally. I believe the majority of people that used marijuana would be using it to achieve a high and in the repeated process would become addicted. I also believe that if marijuana was legal it would become a lot easier for teenagers and young adults to get their hands on marijuana even if your suppose to be 18 to get it there will be the sellers that don’t care about the age group their selling to. There are some teens that will stop at nothing to get their hands on any drugs but if marijuana was legalized it would be just that much easier.
Legalizing marijuana throughout the country would bring less “crime” as well. Tourists who go to the legal states would go back to their own state and could be arrested and even fired from their job for marijuana use. Why allow two states in America go against the federal law and have the other forty-eight stuck in the unethical
Federal Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana, weed, cannabis, hemp, or grass, it is called by many names and has gotten a bad rap in the past few decades, but it should be federally legalized. We have been encouraged to believe it is a “gateway” drug and that it may lead to addiction and various health issues. Yet there are many therapeutic benefits as well as practical applications. The consumption of marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol and smoking cigarettes. There is an excessive amount of money spent every year on its regulation, criminalization and prohibition.
Anti drug programs have been implemented into schools to teach the youth that marijuana (and other illegal substances) is bad for them and that it projects the image of a criminal. However, through much research it has been proven that marijuana has beneficial uses for society and is in fact a positive reality for many people. Marijuana is used to treat epilepsy, cancer, eating disorders, depression, stress, and so much more. This 'obscene drug' isn't only positive to society for its medicinal purposes, but also for its economical uses as well. It can be used in the form of hemp as a renewable resource.
Background and context Tobacco is one of the most widely-used recreational drugs in the world; mainly in the form of cigarettes, but also in cigars and pipes, and in combination with cannabis and marijuana in 'joints'. Although most countries put age restrictions on its use, over a billion adults smoke tobacco legally every day, and supplying this demand is big business. As well as having serious health consequences for smokers themselves, the pollution of other people's atmospheres with cigarette smoke also makes this an environmental issue.Attitudes have changed rapidly over the past twenty years. In the developed world, public opinion has shifted against smoking. By the 1990s, the sheer weight of evidence had forced major tobacco companies to admit that their products are both harmful and addictive.