Legalization
Max Kaufman
Marijuana
must be made illegal. A vicious plant, marijuana is the first step towards
modern day enslavement. Marijuana addicts suffer from boughs of violence,
insanity, murder, and even suicide. This soul destroying menace deeply rooted
in hell, causes wild derangement and eventually a horrible death. What kind of
world would we be creating for our children if we allowed this satanic plant to
remain legal?
[Long pause]
Now that I’ve caught your attention, most of you are aware
that this is not the case, if you weren’t aware of this that is perfectly fine.
The true but hard to stomach truth about Cannabis is that the most common side
effects are red eyes, a dry mouth, dizziness, and the urge to consume various
foods including but not limited to pop tarts, Oreos, chips and or dip of any
kind, cereal, and ice cream (especially when in sandwich form). Needless to say
obesity rates would not be helped if marijuana were to be legalized. I propose
that the United States should legalize medical marijuana and it should be
viewed by the nation as a medicinal product.
Switching to a historical note, let me start by saying that
people did not always believe that marijuana was bad. In fact its use has been
traced all the way back to 7,000b.c. It is just within the 20th
century that marijuana has been made to be a bad thing.
A
man named Harry J. Anslinger back in the 30’s saw the federal bureau of
narcotics as a wonderful career opportunity. As an ambitious man he realized he
could create a problem along a solution. So he latched onto the idea of marijuana.
Attributing it to causing white women to seek sexual relations with other
races, and other ridiculous things without any facts to back him up, Anslinger
was quite obviously manipulating the American public. He did this with a film
called “Reefer Madness” to which much of my argument against legalization was
taken from. When you get a chance google this guy, some of stuff that he said
is pretty funny now.
Anslinger along with several other racists and exploiting
businessmen are responsible for the negative stigma that follows marijuana.
Now, with the constant struggle against awful disease it
seems ridiculous that we still cling to these stigmas, when it could be a
viable treatment for such illness. A discussion on youtube between Piers Morgan
and Dr Sanjay Gupta addresses the medical viability of this plant. Here you can
see, first hand, as medical marijuana cures a patient of chronic painful spasms
of the diaphragm almost instantly, a feat that proved incapable of many strong
and damaging drugs with side affect lists 10 times as long as the one I listed
before.
Now you some might say that legalization will only result
with more widespread use in children and teens. But in the American Journal of
Public Health it is said by two PhD researchers that recent studies related to
legalization in states like Colorado have given us no reason to believe that
marijuana use in teens has gone up.
It
might be shocking that more than 1 in 3 adults have tried marijuana but I believe
that the removal of common misconceptions about cannabis could lead to less
teens trying it out in the first place.
But
for those who choose to use marijuana to treat chronic back pain or induce a
hunger previously stolen from them by chemotherapy, who is Anslinger to tell
them they can’t.
Lastly
marijuana sales if made legal could become a huge source of wealth. It was
estimated by Huffington Post that legal marijuana sales in 2014 would become a
2.14 billion dollar market; growing even faster than the competitive Smartphone
market, imagine only if sale was permitted nationwide.
Overall
cannabis has the potential to provide many health benefits, with very few
negative side effects, and it was previously made illegal for reasons not factually
backed up at all. It is for these reasons that I propose the United States
legalize marijuana.
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