Legalization of Marijuana (Cannabis) is highly logical in a day where alcohol and tobacco products, (although restricted by age) are available to millions of people every day. Someone has to wonder why there is such controversy about the proposal to legalize marijuana. Cannabis would benefit the economy enabling new jobs in the U. S. The sale of Cannibas would benefit the government as well with a tax. Being an illegal drug Cannabis has more helpful causes than Of course, there are many arguments for both sides of this debated issue.
Nonetheless, Marijuana is no more harmful than alcohol and tobacco products and in some cases, marijuana has already proven to be medicaly helpful. Marijuana, a plant with many uses, should be legalized for crime deflation, medicinal help and tax purposes. Marijuana is, in truth, no more harmful than currently sold alcohol and tobacco products in the U. S. In fact marijuana is no more harmfull than sucking Helium.
Each year, millions and millions of dollars are spent on health care issues stemming from the use of alcohol and tobacco drugs: Studies have indicated that the toxins in obacco and that alcohol are addictive, cause birth defects, and cause many different cancers which kill people. Many families have suffered hard ships because of over use of these drugs. Fighting addictions, added to the cost of fighting cancer, has skyrocketed the amount of money spent each year. Studies do not, however, indicate that marijuana is a gateway drug, one that causes addiction .
Perhaps the only reason that currently points to danger associated with marijuana has more to do with the fact that because it is not currently government regulated for he public use, marijuana does, occasionally, contain impurities that cause temporary nausea. Perhaps under the FDA specifically, would guarantee a consistently pure product. Already, the FDA has said that marijuana is helpful in treating nausea for cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy. In addition the FDA supports the research that shows marijuanas medicinal potential in treating glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness.
Several studies have found that smoking marijuana reduces intraocular pressurethe main cause of this disease. How can a rug that the FDA endorses for purposes of healing and prevention be harmful that the general population needs to be prohibited from its pleasurable effects? Along with the medicinal purposes of marijuana, it will also help to reduce crime related offenses. Police enforcement will save billions of dollars a year. Marijuana is illegal, only criminals deal the drug and will at any point change the cost of their product. This causes anger and frustration among their clients, which often erupts into violence and theft.
Law enforcement spends 9 billion dollars annually on cannabis arrests that would no longer be made. Because it is illegal, marijuana is often used today in shady places and allowing legalization will decrease the number of such meeting spots. The legalization of marijuana will also result in a decrease of jail population, which will save millions and will result in less violence that often occurs from Marijuana, just like alcohol and tobacco, could be taxed, the revenue of which would result in billions of dollars that could be spent in areas needing further funding.
One pack of twenty joints could be sold the same amount as one pack of cigarettes, $3. 50 a pack. From that per pack amount, one-fourth the total cost would go directly to the government. For the government to regulate and maintain affordable prices, it would tax the registered dealers but not growers. This means the sale of unregistered homegrown weed would be banned. However, People could grow their own cannabis but only for personal use. Another possible way to limit abuse of the drug would be to regulate consumers directly, as for instance, by issuing licenses to buy/ sell/ or grow pot ( Http://www. geocities. omeconomics. html ).
The government could mpose a regulation tax of around $. 50-1. 00; such a tax on items is to help control the use, which would, in turn, lower the potential for abuse of a substance. These taxes alone would raise around $2. 2-$6. 4 billion a year. This tax is only one of several cumulative taxes that would be imposed to support the legalization of marijuana. Overall the government could potentially earn $24. 2-$43 billion in just one year. The Economy would benefit as well.
A plantation were Cannabis grown then shipped to varias places around the world would contribute thousands of Marijuana has been proven to be a very safe drug that has many benefits that should be taking advantage of rather than being banned from todays society. It has many uses, not only as medicine but to reduce crime rates, as a social drug etc. Hemp would make better paper than any type of tree, hemp makes a stronger fabric than cotton, hemp could be used as gasoline to fuel our mechines. The uses of marijuana go on and on, there would be many improvements on earth that would also benefit the earth as well. The legalization of marijuana will also help us continue to live a long and prosperous life.
