Legalizing Marijuana Essay, Research Paper

What this can’t be true, marijuana can’t be good for you it causes asthma and

bronchitis. Oh wait I almost forgot thats just another misconception of

marijuana in truth it is actually good for people suffering from asthma and

bronchitis.

Yeah right, this wonder of a drug isn’t only not

bad for you, but it can actually promote good health. This drug can save lives,

it can restore people’s vision, in fact there isn’t much this drug can’t do.

Marijuana can save the lives of people diagnosed with cancer, and prolong the

lives of people with the HIV virus. It reduces nausea and increases the

appetite. If this isn’t enough to change your mind about marijuana how about

all the people with glocoma? Smoking marijuana will clear up their vision and

relieve the pressure in their eyes, AND IT CAN EVEN PREVENT THEM

FROM BEING BLIND.

Marijuana supposedly causes brain damage but that is only

another misconception. This misconception has been tested and proven

wrong. The only thing that actually makes marijuana bad for you is the tar in

it, and it is not good for your lungs to breathe in anything that hot. Now these

aren’t terribly bad for you, but they can be overcome by using a bong or

waterpipe and putting ice in it.

Every year law enforcement

spends countless man-hours trying to apprehend marijuana dealers and

growers. This time would be better utilized in dealing with more serious

crimes.

A study carried out in California clearly

demonstrates the effectiveness of marijuana as a treatment for cancer: “Over

74 percent of the cancer patients treated in the program have reported that

marijuana is more effective in relieving their nausea and vomiting than any

other drug they have tried.”(Zeese 1990).

Moreover, several other things can be produced commercially using

the marijuana plant. There is a possible revenue obtainable from hemp, which

can be manufactured into clothing material, vegetable oil, paper product, and

livestock feed (Caputo and Ostrom 485).

However, crime enforcement energy is often

spent dealing with cases that are not necessary. The police spend useless time

trying to arrest marijuana growing and smokers. If marijuana is legalized,

drug-fighting resources could be better used against the drug trade of

cocaine, heroin, and other dangerous substances.

Also, if

the government would legalize and regulate the sale of marijuana, large tax

revenues could be available to the government. This increased revenue could

help the country become a better place to live, whether it be through

improved highways or new schools.

All of these benefits are from a simple plant called marijuana, and yet

the government will not allow their country to enjoy all of the good things that

could come out of the legalization of this crop.

If these drugs that I and others are doing are so bad for us

why did the government let us pay taxes with hemp in the 1800’s, why did they

make a video called “Hemp For Victory” teaching all us civilians to grow

marijuana because our hemp supply was cut off from the Philippines? I’m

sure if marijuana was that bad for you that they wouldn’t have risked

something legalizing growing it. In fact the reason it was illegalized in 1937 is

because hemp is such a strong competitor for everything from clothes to

paper products.

. If you are diagnosed with

glocoma and are about to go blind the government doesn’t care they might

hook you up with a nice cane but they refuse to give you the one thing that

would have saved your vision the only medicinal herb that could have

possibly kept you from becoming blind and that is marijuana. They tell us lies

,marijuana causes brain damage. When in fact it does not scientists have

proven wrong this theory on rhesus monkeys giving them marijuana 1-3 times

daily for up to a year and reported no signs of brain damage at all.

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.

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

percent pro marijuana because I believe its

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

overdose.

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