An Argument Against Legalization Of Marijuana

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Buying marijuana right now is totally unsafe, because of course its illegal and at times you don’t know if you care actually getting what you asked for, they could be scamming you and giving you a harder/unsafe drug putting your life in risk. However by legalizing marijuana we can prevent that from happening, making it safe for the public to buy marijuana. Now people might say it’s a gateway drug, it actually isn’t. The reason why most people who consume marijuana go on to doing other drugs is because of their connections with people. Marijuana users don’t meet with a heroin dealer right away, they meet with their dealer and their dealer has connections with people that have stronger drugs. Like I said before we can also eliminate that by legalizing

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