Analysis Of When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping Of America

Marijuana has changed our society socially and economically. It’s affecting a lot of people in the world because of the negative reputation it withholds. Marijuana has always been referred to as the gateway drug to all others, which has not always been true. The drug being illegal has created social issues and the ongoing detrimental War on Drugs. To elaborate more on this, I will include claims and evidence from David and Jack Cahn’s book When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America, where they describe the effects that the drug being illegal creates and does to certain communities. I will analyze and evaluate other articles, which extend and qualify that there is an issue in our society regarding marijuana legalization. We are having a War on Drugs that is affecting our younger generations as well as the economy. …show more content…
However, in their argument, Cahn and Cahn assert that the illegalization of marijuana has worse effects on people than the drug itself. Cahn and Cahn, millennial journalists and activists, have traveled across the country and spoke with over 10,000 young individuals. Cahn and Cahn noticed that these millennials, have formed completely different from those individuals in Washington. In their text, they address issues that mostly affect the millennial generation. One of these issues includes the War On Drugs, where they give multiple viewpoints on the “war” itself and its effects. Cahn and Cahn address millennials who share the same viewpoints as them and non-millennials that don’t. In “ The Weed Warriors are Back: Rethinking the War on Drugs”, Cahn and Cahn question traditional assumptions about marijuana use and the effectiveness of the War on