Legalize Marijuanna

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Alcohol and tobacco kills thousands of people every year. I have never heard of one death being caused by marijuana. Marijuana is a relatively harmless drug that governments around the world have made illegal. Why? This very controversial issue has been going on for awhile, but lately it seems to be making some progress. Just last month, Nevada voted to severely cut its laws when it comes to punishment for possession. This shows that this issue will not go away anytime soon, and there might be some validity to the idea that marijuana could be beneficial to our society. I think that for many reasons marijuana should be legalized.

The main advantage of legalizing this drug would be to help terminally ill people. This drug has been shown to help patients that are suffering from diseases like AIDS, cancer, and other terminal illnesses. When people like this know they are going to die, and are in pain, what is the problem with them smoking something that will ease their pain? If this drug is helping them to not suffer, then I don’t see any problems with it. Marijuana is proven to ease their pain, and not cause any side effects. Other drugs that are used today to help relieve pain cause many bad side effects, marijuana has none. For this reason, it should be legalized to help the ill.

Another benefactor of legalizing marijuana is the government. The government could make a large amount of revenue through taxing it. Each year, our government makes billions of dollars from taxing tobacco. If marijuana became a manufactured product, the government could set the same taxes and make billions more. Once legalized and regulated by the government, the money raised through taxes could be used to help improve the country. Drug-fighting resources could be better used as well. Instead of wasting time with petty marijuana dealers and smokers, they could go after the drug trade of cocaine, heroin, and other dangerous substanc...