Argumentative Essay: Why Marijuana Should Be Legal

I believe that marijuana should be illegal for many reasons. I believe that people that smoke marijuana have given up on life. Also, people that grew up in a family that smoke it everyday didn’t have a choice to not be around it. However, once they learn that marijuana is bad for your health, they should have changed their perspective on smoking everyday. Leaders like Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, have said that they don’t agree with the fact that marijuana should be legal. Because many people have gotten caught with drugs that are illegal, they have been put into jails and prisons for their bad decisions. However, these local jails and prisons are getting overcrowded and the law enforcement budgets have reframed the issue. In Florida, voters were to decide if they wanted marijuana to be legalized even just for medical uses. Many local jails and prisons are getting overcrowded because of all the men and women that are getting …show more content…
However there are some people that take advantage of those type of people. One of the episodes was about how somebody that was sick would be under the control of a bigger person. That person would make them go out and get more from their doctor. Marijuana has become something that people need and not just do it sometimes. My mom always told me that the couple times you do it, you can’t stop. Money has to do a lot with marijuana because I know it’s not cheap. It’s crazy to think how much money people around us spend so much money for something that’s only going to keep you away from the world for a couple of hours. Once you’re off of it, you’re back to thinking about the responsibilities that you have. After that, all they do is do it again and again, and now they can’t stop because they need it. It’s sad to think that there are some families out there that allow their kids to smoke marijuana even if it’s because that’s the way they were