Marijuana Should Be Legalized In The United States

Thesis Statement: Marijuana should be fully legalized in the United States because it is significantly less harmful to human beings than cigarettes and alcohol, offers many health benefits, and its legalization could lead to a significant boost in government revenue if a tax was imposed on sales of the product.

Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in the United States. Despite this, Marijuana remains illegally in many states across the country. Legal drugs like tobacco, and alcohol are proven to be more deadly then marijuana. However, they remain legal nationwide. Tobacco itself is the second major cause of death in the world. The United States should legalize marijuana because it’s not as deadly as some other legal drugs, it’s already widely used, and it’s nearly impossible to enforce its’ use.

Legalizing marijuana is one of the biggest controversial debates in America today. Although legalizing marijuana would be beneficial to America, the government will not allow it. Marijuana should be legalized because it can help in medical areas, help the economy, and lower crime rates

Marijuana has been a controversial issue in America because people disagree whether or not it should be legal. Some argue that marijuana should be illegal because it isn't safe to consume. But I argue that marijuana should be legal because it’s almost harmless.

Should medical marijuana be illegal in the United States? Twenty- three states have legalized “medical marijuana” in the last couple of years. Medical marijuana is a drug that supports treatment for certain illness like cancer and diseases of the eyes. The Executive Branch of the United States government has a “drug” policy manual. The Senate and the House of Representative added an amendment to a federal spending bill that was an historic event, while the Courts stop the DEA in their tracks. The branches of the government have affected the American people in so many ways when it comes to drug laws, both good and bad.

Marijuana has been a tremendous on-going legal debate over the last few centuries in America. In the last few decades marijuana use in America has been on the rise, especially among young adults. Marijuana comes from the hemp plant known as "Cannabis Sativa". In 2727 B.C, the Chinese were the first to document the use of marijuana for medicine. Chinese would use the seeds of the hemp plant for food (Borges, 2014, Ch. 15). Marijuana has been known for a lot more than just getting high though. In the past it’s been used for fabric, food, incense, cloth, and much more. In the last few decades America has come up with a variety of nicknames for the Marijuana. Some common nicknames include Cannabis, Skunk, Ganja, Maryjane, Refeer, bud and tree. Many of these street names arrived from the leafy appearance and its vigorous smell.

Have you ever thought of other forms of medicine other than the ones we have today? How about the medicines used in earlier times? The use of marijuana as a remedy dates back to about 8,000 years ago. In fact, it was classified as a regular form of medicine, until it was made illegal for use in the United States during the year 1937. In more recent years, the use of marijuana as a form of medicine has become a very popular debate in the United States especially with some states actually making it legal. The use of medical marijuana should be legal in the United States because it is a known treatment for many diseases, chronic pain, and because it has worked effectively in other countries.

Marijuana is an unhealthy drug and it can cause a lot more damage than you think. It can cause so much harm to your body. It is very addicting and people think that it is a harmless little plant but in reality, it can cause so much harm to your body. So many people in America are smoking Marijuana and they think that it doesn’t do anything to harm them because it is an all natural plant. Marijuana is smoked all over America and in some places it is illegal and others it it legal.

"Would I rather drink and smoke cigarettes, impairing not only myself but others, or smoke cannabis and not maltreating anything living? Now, which one give the impression that it would be a good awareness to have legal in the U.S?" Cannabis better known as marijuana or Mary Jane has benefited our world in many ways, but why is it illegal? What are the good factors of alcohol or tobacco? All I can comprehend of them are bad factors that can damage our life. Cannabis has opened the minds of doctors and scientist so wide that it can really change the world or is that the problem? Yes, when people think of cannabis they think the only thing it can do is unhealthy, but that is not the case. Cannabis help with pain and mental problems that people face in the world today. It also help ease the pain that come from cancer and tumors that can cause cancerous problems. Cannabis should be legalized all over the world.

“Recent polls suggest that between 46% and 58% of the American population believe marijuana should be legally regulated, while support for allowing the medical use of marijuana is about 80%” (“10 Facts About Marijuana”). As of 2014, twenty-three states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws allowing smoked marijuana to be used for a variety of medical conditions (4). However, these state marijuana laws do not alter the fact that using marijuana continues to be an offense under Federal Law. The use of cannabis for medical purposes may have been introduced up to 10,000 years ago. Accordingly, it was most certainly developed in China in 2900 BC, being referred to as a popular medicine by Fu Hsi, the Chinese emperor at the time (9). Marijuana was recommended for malaria, constipation, rheumatic pains, “absentmindedness,” and “female disorders.” Marijuana should be legal because of its many benefits: medical use, tax revenue boost, and industrial and commercial use.

In my opinion, I would want the US government to legalize cannabis.So you would ask why? First of all, cannabis has a mountain of benefits: lose weight and fight cancer… And cannabis can use for medical uses and even reduce crime. And cannabis have 2 types which are Indica and Sativa. Indica will make you feel relaxed and it has a full body effect. On the other hand, Sativa will make you get high and it mostly affects your brain and it’s use for boosting your creativity. All of those above are just a small reason why we should legalize cannabis, stop thinking about the dark side, think about how cannabis can help you later on. All hail Cannabis!!!

I grew up with parents who smoked Marijuana on a regular basis. They tried to hide it from me but I knew what they were doing. My parents exposed me to the drug, but I was also exposed to the drug just walking around my neighborhood, which was a ghetto trailer park in Clearfield Utah. Marijuana and other drugs were cool in my neighborhood and everybody who was anybody was doing them except me.

Premise: Street justice related to drug disputes would be reduced resulting in less crowding in prisons.

The word marijuana has been drug through the dirt in recent years. The “War on Drugs” campaign has falsely made marijuana a villain. Sixty years ago marijuana had many different uses, and today marijuana has many more pros than it does cons. Marijuana should be legalized because positive results of criminalization of it are nonexistent, the medical effects are legitimate, and marijuana is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.

Should marijuana be illegal or should be legal in the United States? I think that marijuana should be illegal. Marijuana is a plant that is illegal in some states of the United States because it makes you do things that you don't want to do like when you are drunk but for marijuana instead of saying drunk its high and when you're high it's the same thing as if you were drunk like you start acting weird, might not remember what happened the night before things like that. The main reason why I want marijuana to illegal is because there are people out there in the world that need lungs and if we make marijuana legal then all those lungs we could have used for the people that need lungs will be lost and the people that need lungs might die,