Legalization of Marijuana Today the issue of legalization of marijuana is gaining more and more public interest. The state of things is very critical in the USA. The cases of possession or consumption of marijuana and their law prosecution grow each year. According to the statistics put out by The Marijuana Policy Project, since 1965 there have been more than 11 million marijuana arrests in America, in 1997 the number of arrests was the largest in the U.S. history more than 695, 000. [1].
Thus the restrictions of the criminal law have failed to prove their effectives in marijuana issues. Evidently marijuana laws need a serious reform which will take into consideration many details concerning growing, sale, trade, possession and consumption of marijuana in medical cases, for the purposes of tax paying, elimination of black market etc. However, there is one huge obstacle on the way to legalize marijuana. Marijuana is a drug and its legal permit might encourage a stronger wave of drug addiction all over the country. Though the last argument is difficult to oppose as it has so to say a human factor and implies ethics, morality in whole, the matter of legalization of marijuana should be debated and, of course, it should consider both pro and contra arguments. It is important that todays medical observations and studies have proved that health hazard of marijuana was exaggerated. In comparison with alcohol and tobacco, marijuana does not cause strong addiction, cancer, heart problems, birth defects, emphysema, liver damage, etc.
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It also does not result in such problems as genetic damage, brain damage, or damage the immune system. Marijuana does not lead to the addiction to harder drugs. [3]. There is no statistics about annual number of deaths caused by marijuana, while every year 400000 of people die because of tobacco and 100000 of the deaths happen in the result of consumption of alcohol. [3]. All these estimations evidence that marijuana is no longer harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Equally important are the arguments concerning medical purposes of marijuana prescriptions.
Marijuana will aid in certain medical cases in order to provide human functioning in the society. The point is that for example, physicians recommend marijuana in cases of glaucoma, to combat AIDS wasting syndrome, and as an anti-nausea agent in the treatment of some cancers, AIDS and Multiple Sclerosis. [1]. The validity of this argument is ensured by House Bill 912 which was introduced by Rep. Barney Frank, in 1999, and which allows states to determine for themselves if marijuana should be legal for medicinal use. [1].
In addition if marijuana becomes a legalized drug it will increase the income to the national debt. The government can tax the sale of marijuana. In this way the problem of black market will be diminished and the matters of sale, trade, possession and consumption of marijuana will go under the control of the public. On the whole, in this essay I attempted to debate the issue of legalization of marijuana in the USA. As it was noticed above, the reform of marijuana laws should consider both consider pro and contra arguments to comprehend the problem better and thus to find out a more effective solution. Marijuana should be legalized to permit the wider practice of its usage for medical purposes, and to increase national income. But still, marijuana remains a drug and in this assay I tried to prove that marijuana addiction is not a bigger hazard than that of legalized tobacco and alcohol.
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Carol E. Rachal. (2005).Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Use.
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Bob Enyart’s view on legalizing marijuana is more convincing compared to the Young Liberals of Canada, Liberal Party of Canada’s (British Columbia) as his use of pathos and rhetorical devices is more effective. Bob Enyart plays with his viewers’ feelings and emotions as he makes them feel as though they have to be on his side or their view is completely immoral and in his words “stupid”. Whereas ...
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