Sunday, March 10, 2013

Marijuana Legal?


I definitely believe the use of medical marijuana should be legalized.  There are so many ways that marijuana can help people.  From cancer patients all the way to simpler things like anxiety.  People take all kinds of medication for depression and anxiety.  These medications can be very addictive and harmful to the patients.  Marijuana has no physical addictive property, while many other legal substances are considered to be very addictive both physically and mentally.  While marijuana does little to cure any diseases, it does a great deal to ease the suffering caused by many different ailments without adverse side effects. 
The reasons for a substance to be determined illegal is supposed to be directly related to the amount of social damage caused by the substance.  The only social damage caused by marijuana is due to it being illegal.  People smoke marijuana in the privacy of their home without harming anybody and can wind up arrested or fired from their jobs not because they made a mistake at work or caused someone physical harm but because they smoked some marijuana.
Not only do I believe that medical marijuana should be legalized but I believe marijuana in general should be legalized.  Not only are the laws against marijuana useless but they are also ineffective and a giant waste of our taxes. 
I personally have an extensive history of drug use and have been sober and living the good life for three years, so while I no longer use marijuana myself, I do believe that Americans should have the right to use marijuana.  I also believe that our taxes could be used for better things then arresting and imprisoning people for relaxing in the privacy of their home.
                                                                                                Thank You, Jeremy

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