Marijuana legalised for recreational use: Cons

Here we go. This is what everyone is waiting for. I made such a deliberating argument in the pros section. What could I possibly say wrong about marijuana that would not contradict my previous entry. Well at first, I want everyone to have a open mind when dealing with this drug. It is not crack, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin or cristal meth. It is marijuana and I have stated the dangers of it below. However, there are certain cons to legalising the substance that I would like to bring to attention. You cant have a positive without some negatives. If marijuana was legalised in Canada, we would have the entire criminal world staring directly towards us, especially America. Why would any criminal have to break there back buying tons of marijuana from a middleman source, when they can come to Canada and get the marijuana at a wholesale price. The government would be selling the product ten times better and more potent then you would get on your average street sale. Gangs would target Canada as a place to set up shop and smuggle marijuana from here with ease. That could possibly raise the crime rates to a higher percentage.


Another thing that I would like to state that would be a possible con is the attention we would get from the rest of the world. Canada would become the new Amsterdam. People would come from all around the world not to see our land marks or beautiful scenery, but to smoke weed. Also Canada is similar to America, so imagine how many people would want to not just visit but live here. That would also refer to the point I made above. With people comes crime, poverty and problems. If someone wants to come to the country for the sole purpose of the freedom of marijuana, what asset could they possibly be to society?



The final con that came to mind was society. Just because it would be legal in Canada wouldn't matter to the rest of the world. It would still be illegal in the States and everywhere else. We would be raising our children in a environment where the use of marijuana would be a norm. With this in effect a lot of lives could change. The balance of society could crumble possibly if every ones children were smoking weed besides going to school because of the easy access to the drug being legal.

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