Should Marijuana Be Legalized? Arguments For And Against Essay, Research Paper

Should Marijuana

be Legalized? Arguments For and Against

The purpose of this paper is to discuss marijuana and compare both sides

of the issue of legalizing marijuana. We have two factions fighting each

other ; one those who are pro marijuana and those who are anti marijuana.

These two factions have been fighting on this issue on the halls of justice

for years.

Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician’s Association

for AIDS Care, National Lymphoma Foundation argue that marijuana should

be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. Among them are

AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they

can fight off dangerous emaciation; glaucoma sufferers who have used marijuana

said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for whom

it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy

and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible.

Due to all these lobbying groups which show substantial evidence that

marijuana can be used as a prescribed drug. Also many advocates who are

pro marijuana complain that morphine and cocaine are legal and are very

dangerous drugs, that brings up the question why not legalize marijuana

as medical drug which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine.

Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council committee unanimously

voted to urge president Bill Clinton and congress to end federal restrictions

against the use of marijuana for ” legitiment medical use.” City council

women Christine kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego “to go on the

record we support the medical use marijuana.; marijuana can be a drug of

necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis.

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Many agencies which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency

and police departments argue that marijuana shouldn’t be legalized. These

agencies believe that marijuana shouldn’t be legalized because if marijuana

is to become legal then thousands more patients using marijuana. Then people

will raise the question why marijuana illegal at all if its a medicine.

The main reason why the Drug Enforcement Agency doesn’t want marijuana

to be legal is because their is no hard core evidence that proves that

marijuana is a effective drug as a medicine. In twenty years of research

have produced no reliable scientific proof that marijuana has medical value.

The American Cancer Society , American Glaucoma Society,the National Multiple

Sclerosis, the American Academy of Ophthalmology , or the American Medical

Association , say that their is no evidence that marijuana is a medicine.

The agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked and

that knew findings show that marijuana is acutely harmful to AIDS, Cancer

patients because the active ingredient in marijuana acutely reduces the

the bodies white blood cells which fight off infection. The Drug Enforcement

Agency along with police departments all over the United States believe,

with the legalization of drugs crime will increase due to a higher increase

of pot users which will eventually become addicts and will still or kill

in order to get their drugs.

These are the main points and reasons why the Drug named marijuana shouldn’t

be legalized in the United States of America.

Seeing booth sides of the issue I come to a conclusion that marijuana

should be legalized in order to help people suffering from terminal diseases

such as AIDS, Cancer and Glaucoma. Prohibition of marijuana over the past

decades hasn’t deminshed the demand of the drug in the United States. The

use of marijuana has acutely went up due to the mass attention given to

marijuana by rappers such as Cypress Hill who promote the use of marijuana

as a social drug. But I believe that marijuana is here to stay in our society

and is only going through the stages that alcohol had during the prohibition

era.

Marijuana will become legal due to the knew administration which is

liberal and who’s leader , president Bill Clinton who had acutely used

marijuana during the nineteen sixties. Due to all these factors marijuana

will become more widely accepted by the American people who will pressure

congress to rewrite the laws on the drug marijuana. Now its only a matter

of time before lobbying groups pressure the legislature to legalize it.

Due to legalization many states will be able to grow marijuana as a cash

crop, and the United States government will be able to tax marijuana and

make revenue off it. The revenue made from marijuana will be in the millions

which can be used for drug rehabs and anti drug programs targeted at elementary

children. Still by seeing both sides of the issue I’m still one hundred

percent pro marijuana because I use it socially and I believe its less

harmful than beer or liquor because with marijuana you can’t overdose.