Legalizacion De La Marihuana

How many people here have ever smoked the well-known plant called marijuana? Obviously no one would want to admit to a criminal activity in front of their teacher. But why is it that smoking pot is so prohibited among our society? After all, in some races and cultures the use of marijuana is even encouraged. For example, the Oklevueha Native American Church uses cannabis as a ceremonial sacrament. Also the famed German philosopher Freidrich Nietzche once said, “If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure one is to eat hashish”. The founding father of our nation George Washington, said, “Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!”. Famous Hollywood actor Johnny Depp says, “I’m not a big pothead or anything like that… but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol”. Marijuana is one of the safest medicinal substances on the planet and is supported by many acclaimed celebrity role models and even for religious matters. But in the other hand if the U.S were to legalize marijuana, the number of users would increase. As you can see, this is a very complicated topic to discuss but in the paragraphs below I will make you understand the cons and pros, and let you decide you’re final conclusion.

Drugs are a delicate subject in America, mostly because people are uneducated or misled by government education. Because of this, most people feel that someone who uses drugs is a danger to society. When in fact, drug abuse for the most part is a victimless crime only affecting the user and the user's body and therefore should be the user's choice. There has been a research about this misleading drug and it actually came out that the most commonly drug leading to others is alcohol. This social misconception has not reached a hundred percent in our society causing it to only blame marijuana users for other addictions. A study published in 2010 in the medical journal Lancet ranked alcohol as the most harmful drug of all, above heroin, crack, meth, cocaine and tobacco. In the other hand if we see this from another view, alcohol is a legal drug and it already had its prohibition back in the 1920’s, making it more normal to see a person drinking in public than to be smoking marijuana in the streets but not healthier. All this is only conceptions our society have, but by turning it around and making marijuana legal it would not be seen as we have seen it all these years.

We have to start getting smart about drugs, and try to think of a better way to use marijuana for good. If you think about it, managing marijuana like alcohol and tobacco by regulating, taxing and enforcing its lawful use, the United States could turn it into a positive opportunity. It could even cut down on drug related crimes. The war on drugs is not only wasting our tax money, it’s not focusing on other educational, health and public safety programs, making that more depressing and non-sense to be filling jails with non-violent potheads. Supporting the legalization of cannabis sativa could establish new laws in which minors could be sanctioned the same way they do when caught with alcohol; and money would still be produced from the fee of these violations, instead of incarcerate and wasting our money maintaining them in prison.

These are only a few facts and examples of what would happen if marijuana was legalized. Of course society’s mentality can’t be change that easy, but the younger the people the more open minded we are. Wanting marijuana’s legalization doesn’t make you a user, neither means that you will start smoking it, but proves your interest in this country’s economy. I’m not only trying to make you see it from both views, I want to inform you what the TV won’t. In the end users will make their decision in which to keep smoking or quit, meanwhile the same proposition is going to appear in the ballots until legalized. My opinion on the topic is that it should be legalized

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