Legalizing Marijuna

Caffeine is America’s best friend, when trying to pull ourselves together whether it is a Monday morning, or Friday morning caffeine will always be there. Drinking caffeine has become apart of ones daily routine, you wake up, brush your teeth, and head for the kitchen to go make fresh pot of caffeine, more commonly referred to as coffee. If you think about it, caffeine plays the same role as any drug, because of its psychological addiction problem. America needs to face the facts; caffeine is everyone’s worst vice, but I’m guessing it is okay because it is legal? Unlike another drug called Marijuana (an intoxicating drug obtained from the hemp plant.) There have been several cases that have proven marijuana to have been affective purely for medical reasons: to ease the nausea of chemotherapy, to reduce the pain of multiple sclerosis, to alleviate the symptoms of glaucoma, and to improve appetite dangerously reduced from AIDS, are only some to mention. Medical marijuana has taken its toll in improving the health of all. But why is it, that if some is caught in possession of this drug, the government says that you should be arrested, sentenc

Legalizing drugs would make our economy function a lot easier and it would be a lot more productive. But these drugs are still very harmful. “This is our nations most serious public health problems—drug abuse and addiction” (Leshner 1) I understand that having drugs be illegal will be better for children, because since they don’t have easy access to it, they won’t be inclined to do it. “True a lot of naive kids are lured into the drug world by visions of a life filled with big money and fast cars.” (Bennett 1) But we would have to leave it up the child’s parents to teach those values, and what’s wrong and what’s right. “Addiction is chronic, and for many people, reoccurring disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and uses that result from the prolonged effects of drug on the brain. These brain changes are essentially what make addiction a brain disease.” (Leshner 1) If we legalize drugs we will have more problems with brain disease, because the drugs will be legal and the people will try it. Either way we go, there will never be a utopian society, and if you solve one problem, another will occur. This is an on going process. Also another issue if we don’t legalize drugs the black market benefits are very positive and very efficient for the economy because the government makes things illegal that people would want to buy, and the power that government has is to limit the market. But the black market helps the people make these transactions.

Now that I have examined the amount of room wasted in jail cells, the unsuccessful war on drugs, and the positive outcomes that can come about of medical marijuana, I have proven why we should legalize drugs. “There are some people who are going to smoke crack whether it is legal or illegal.” (Bennett 2) Everything in this country aside from drugs is a illegal, what’s stopping them to not legalize this?

So might as well legalize drugs, so our police men, and government can focus on serious problems that affect innocent lives in our society.

“Many of the problems the drug war purports to resolve are in fact caused by the drug war itself. U.S. federal, state and local governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to make America “drug-free.” Yet heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other illicit drugs are cheaper, purer and easier to get than ever before.” (http://www.drugpolicy.org/ 1) Law enforcements spend most of their energy so they don’t have time fo

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