Hello!
This is another post that I’m doing as part of the series where me and Countrywoman take different sides of a topic and write four hundred words about our side. Her blog can be found at THIS address. (You know you like my fancy blue text. You know you want to click on it.)
Since before I was born people have been getting busted in the United States for possession of a substance known as marijuana. Marijuana is a refinement of the Cannabis plant, and is used for various purposes. One is for the “high” that taking it can induce, and more recently it has been used as a strong painkiller for medical purposes.
Already a few states have allowed this “medical marijuana” to become legalized, and more have people trying to push it through into law. Although many don’t want marijuana legalized because they want “clean streets,” I feel like legalizing it wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
Although marijuana is a controlled substance, the fatality rate for those regularly smoking it is much lower than the fatality rate for those people smoking cigarettes. Also, marijuana has a legitimate medical usage, too, while cigarettes serve no such purpose.
Another benefit of legalizing the drug would be the lack of revenue for current black market dealers, as well as less illegal activity relating to the drug. Some people would also argue that limiting or denying access to marijuana limits personal freedoms guaranteed by our constitution.
So although there are some negative sides of legalizing marijuana, it Is my opinion that legalizing it would outweigh these downsides. Marijuana isn’t any more dangerous than smoking cigarettes, it has a legitimate medical purpose, and it would shut down many black market dealers’ major source for income, making our streets “cleaner.”
Thanks for reading!
Matt Finley
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