Marijuana legalised for recreational use: Pros

Before I start of this section I would like whoever is reading to ask themselves a question. What do you think are the pros of legalising marijuana? Do you think everybody will be walking around high all the time? Do you think that society will crumble into a cesspool of drug users and dealers at every corner? Well first of you must understand what substance we are dealing with and what are the dangers involved. Has anybody ever died from using marijuana? According to the mpp.org, not one single death has been recorded due to a marijuana overdose, ever. Nor does marijuana use relate to cancer in any such way. On the site  drugwarfacts.org, it shows how many deaths occurred in the United States in the year of 2009 from certain substances. Alcohol induced deaths were in the range of 24000. Alcohol is legal, marijuana is not? You must ask your self why the government is banning a substance that does not have any risks to it what so ever.
                         

Lets discuss what could possibly happen if marijuana was legalised for recreational use with the public. Police would be able to focus on a lot more serious crimes then your average misdemeanour for possession. Drug dealing would decrease since you could purchase the substance anywhere legally. According to about.com, the revenue that the government could generate if they labelled a tax on marijuana would be in the billions. If the cost of retailing and distribution is the same as for legal tobacco cigarettes, about 10¢ a gram, then selling the (legal) product at exactly the same price as on the street today ($10 per gram) could raise $40 billion to $100 billion in new revenue. If we are discussing a move, that could generate numbers in the billions for the government, why would they want to block out such a substance?

      


Lets bring this discussion to a end with also discussing the worlds look on marijuana. Amsterdam has decriminalised marijuana. You can walk into a coffee shop and buy and smoke a certain amount of marijuana. Canada has also decriminalised it for medical users only, as well as the state of California. Far from killing you, marijuana is used to cure and treat certain sicknesses, and is approved to be used by the same government that bans it. For god sakes, Oxycontin is legal with a prescription from the doctor and it contains traces of heroin. Same with codeine, the infamous cough syrup that is used to treat a cold can actually get you " high" and people have been known to have died from overdosing from it. The hypocrisy the government displays is not being brought under the light. Marijuana has been known to treat certain cancers, yes I said cancer, one of the most deadliest disease known to man without a cure in the most common forms. Why are cigarettes allowed to be legal? Second hand smoke can even kill you from a cigarette. You could have never smoked your whole life and could end up dying because you had a family member who choose to smoke or a significant other. Sometimes you need to ask your self does the government even care about whats in our best interests, or is it all just.....politics?



Cited works :

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Causes_of_Death

 http://www.mpp.org/reports/faq-mj.html

 http://economics.about.com/od/incometaxestaxcuts/a/marijuana.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2010/03/legalize_mariju.html

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