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Legalizing Marijuana, What’s the Big Deal?
Major Writing Project #3 Researched Exploratory Essay
Marijuana has been socially referred to as being a “poison in our culture and history.”(Knipe.10) So much that it has been banned in America since the 1930’s. But today it has become less thought of as an evil product of nature. So much that many states like California, Nevada, and Washington, have legalized it for medicinal purposes. But are we ready as a society and country to fully accept and legalize marijuana? This topic is so contentious that many people have put their lives to the cause of fighting to legalize it and also to keeping it illegal.
Before researching this assignment I had no clue on how controversial this question was going to be. Yes, I had some sort of knowledge of marijuana from drug prevention classes and anti-drug commercials. But I never thought about how big and highly fought over this issue was. When going to the school library and sitting down and reading published books and articles, I got a better understanding of why and how this problem came to be. The internet was also a good source for knowledge but not every source was as informative to why we need to legalize it or keep it the wa
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Knipe wrote that marijuana has been labeled a “gateway drug,” this is because the general public feels this is just the beginning of drug using; harder drugs will be introduced further on. I having heard this on TV and in school and I decided to further search out this concept. So I used the book, Culture, Society, and Drugs, to further research the studies done to marijuana users. They discovered that over half their recorded studies showed that yes, people did in fact use harder drugs after experimenting with pot. But marijuana was not the first drug used so therefore it can not be fully labeled a “gateway drug.” The study showed that the majority of users experimented with alcohol and tobacco moving on towards marijuana. When reading this I reflected my experiences with knowledge I was given. My peers through high school did in fact start with alcohol or tobacco before making the step up. This didn’t come off as strange to me because it was not that they were moving up in drugs, more like they were moving in the direction of availability. Marijuana was a lot easier to acquire than buying alcohol or cigarettes because of the minor laws. This does scare many parents because of their kids could easily buy marijuana other then alcohol. But what if we legalized marijuana and set an age limit on it? Would it do the same thing it does to the availability of alcohol and cigarettes for minors? I realized that this could be a minor solution to the problem. If we could legalize pot, states would have to create certain laws regulating the consumption and sales of marijuana. The NRLE, a pro-pot movement in Nevada, brought an initiative to the ballot.
If marijuana becomes legal, from my research on my sources, I would feel that America would drastically change in a society state and governing state. It would be like ending a long prohibition on drugs. Prohibition didn’t work with alcohol; it just created organized crime and a stronger thirst for strong drink. Some people think that the drug prohibition created the Drug Cartels in our neighboring countries. If this is true, I feel that we can start eliminating them by legalizing marijuana. This could help prevent us from spending all this money on the war on drugs and use it for rehabilitating drug users instead. This would hopefully create a cleaner and healthier society. These are just certain forms of the truth that could happen if we legalize marijuana. I feel that with this research it has made it harder for me to come up with a clear answer to this problem. I do understand better now about the arguments placed on each side. I only think now that over time we will able to see how this question will be answered.
I felt that this was a legitimate reason to legalize marijuana, yet this initiative did not pass. How would this have looked to the kid
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