Legalization

Legalization:

Marijuana legalization

Posted on September 30, 2011.

Since marijuana’s first recorded use dating back five thousand years ago, it has never gained much popularity until the last century with prohibition and antiwar movements. Now, more than ever, propositions to legalize the plant have risen and been subject to controversy and heated debate. Marijuana is the most widely used drug in the United States and considered to be the most harmful by the government with its anti-marijuana stance and laws aimed at curtailing its use. With marijuana use rapidly growing, the United States national debt has never been so high, and the search for seemingly ‘incurable’ diseases raging on, marijuana has the potential to solve many problems if it were to be legalized.
Marijuana has been part of American culture ever since Thomas Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds out of France because he considered hemp vital to America. According to a national household survey an estimated sixty million Americans use marijuana occasionally or regularly. More than 800,000 marijuana users are arrested each year. The main reason marijuana is currently outlawed is money. The government earns revenue from prosecuting users, jobs will be lost in “law-enforcement-judiciary-penal systems” and scientists will lose millions of dollars in grants aimed at searching for the negative effects of marijuana.

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