The U.S. Constitution grants us many rights and privileges. It also sets rules and boundaries and protects us from what is good and bad. However, what is good for someone might not be good for someone else, or in other words what is not good for one state might not be good for another. That’s why states have developed special constitutions that only apply to that state. In the case of Texas, we have the largest state constitution. This means that we don’t completely agree with other states and set our limits on a special law, such as the case of marijuana. Marijuana has started to become legal in a lot of states but Texas has maintained different views about the drug. Marijuana carriers can face really serious charges for a drug that has less
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Eric Blumenson states two important points “First, too many people now doubt that conduct can be immoral if it neither risks nor produces harmful effects; the views of earlier natural law theorists that entirely private conduct such as masturbation is immoral mystifies them. Second, multicultural societies now see too clearly the illegitimacy of enforcing the moral code of some upon others who disagree with it in the absence of harm to others.” (Bluemenson 287) Eric states this to show that the drug should not be illegal by our rights. Our rights would prohibit us from doing wrong to others but marijuana should not be illegal if it’s not causing harm to others. Just like same-sex marriage, it does not affect anyone else except for the people being involved in the act. In Lawrence v. Texas the government ruled that just because something seems immoral is not enough reason to make something prohibited as it was same sex marriage. Marijuana is not a harmful drug; it actually has been known to be used in the medical field to treat patients. In other states, it has become legal and has benefited states in the economy by becoming a taxable …show more content…
Morris and partners concluded, “while marijuana use was related to an increase in drug and property crime, it was not related to an increase in violent crime.” (Morris 2) Morris studied different countries and states where marijuana has been legalized for public and medical use and came up with the conclusion that it actually helps to regulate crime. In his finding, there was only eight percent increase in violence and this was on adolescence and partner violence. He does not state whether it was due to the marijuana but he concluded that this percentage could have many factors, not just marijuana. Morris also makes another important point “Given the relationship between alcohol and violent crime, it may turn out that substituting marijuana for alcohol leads to minor reductions in violent crimes that can be detected at the state level.” (Morris 7) Alcohol acts just like marijuana as a depressant, however, alcohol appears to make people do dumber things and makes one want more and more while marijuana is cannabis and also a depressant it stops at the point when one gets hungry or gets the munchies. Marijuana is more controllable after one gets high than becoming violent when one gets
Eric Blumenson states two important points “First, too many people now doubt that conduct can be immoral if it neither risks nor produces harmful effects; the views of earlier natural law theorists that entirely private conduct such as masturbation is immoral mystifies them. Second, multicultural societies now see too clearly the illegitimacy of enforcing the moral code of some upon others who disagree with it in the absence of harm to others.” (Bluemenson 287) Eric states this to show that the drug should not be illegal by our rights. Our rights would prohibit us from doing wrong to others but marijuana should not be illegal if it’s not causing harm to others. Just like same-sex marriage, it does not affect anyone else except for the people being involved in the act. In Lawrence v. Texas the government ruled that just because something seems immoral is not enough reason to make something prohibited as it was same sex marriage. Marijuana is not a harmful drug; it actually has been known to be used in the medical field to treat patients. In other states, it has become legal and has benefited states in the economy by becoming a taxable …show more content…
Morris and partners concluded, “while marijuana use was related to an increase in drug and property crime, it was not related to an increase in violent crime.” (Morris 2) Morris studied different countries and states where marijuana has been legalized for public and medical use and came up with the conclusion that it actually helps to regulate crime. In his finding, there was only eight percent increase in violence and this was on adolescence and partner violence. He does not state whether it was due to the marijuana but he concluded that this percentage could have many factors, not just marijuana. Morris also makes another important point “Given the relationship between alcohol and violent crime, it may turn out that substituting marijuana for alcohol leads to minor reductions in violent crimes that can be detected at the state level.” (Morris 7) Alcohol acts just like marijuana as a depressant, however, alcohol appears to make people do dumber things and makes one want more and more while marijuana is cannabis and also a depressant it stops at the point when one gets hungry or gets the munchies. Marijuana is more controllable after one gets high than becoming violent when one gets