In 1919, the American government issued a policy called prohibition to ban the sale and utilization of alcohol products because they were thought to be damaging to society. The ideology behind it was that if the alcohol did not exist or was not around, then there would be less crime and corruption, less social issues, and better health and hygiene, resulting in a lower tax burden. Of course, on paper, this sounds like a great idea, but in reality this is not at all what happened. The illegal black market for alcohol was created and people were still drinking, if not more. In the midst of all of this, the government was losing money in a time of need. Finally, in 1933, this law was uplifted after the government realized its mistake. In 2015,
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Currently, Canada on its own spends about 500 million dollars yearly on attempting to enforce marijuana laws. The same 500 million dollars that could be used for funding school for children, support homeless people, or aid cancer research. 500 million dollars that could be used to aid basically any issues in society today. Without this prohibition, the 500 million dollars could be kept and saved, along with the money coming in from marijuana taxes. Luckily, we have an example of this, Colorado is one of the 50 states in the US that has legalized this herb and alone they are bringing in a tax revenue of 75 million dollars alone! 40 million in which they used to help to construct more schools. Canada smokes just as much as the US so it easy to say that they can predict similar intakes that can also as well be used to help support more useful causes. In the end, legalizing marijuana does not only benefit the people that smoke it, but also everyone in the …show more content…
In many scenarios, when a non smoker hears about the word marijuana, they immediately turn to think of words such as pothead, dropout, or junkie. But what makes this wrong is it only applies to a small percentage of people that use the drug. Many people who have smoked this drug have turned out to be productive members in society and a well known example of this is Barack Obama, he smoked and did not turn out to be a “junkie” or “pothead”. There is no logic behind calling someone that smokes a pothead as you can say this is equivalent to calling someone who drinks alcohol an alcoholic. Breaking this problem is the first step to realizing marijuana is not an issue and the stigma needs to be
Currently, Canada on its own spends about 500 million dollars yearly on attempting to enforce marijuana laws. The same 500 million dollars that could be used for funding school for children, support homeless people, or aid cancer research. 500 million dollars that could be used to aid basically any issues in society today. Without this prohibition, the 500 million dollars could be kept and saved, along with the money coming in from marijuana taxes. Luckily, we have an example of this, Colorado is one of the 50 states in the US that has legalized this herb and alone they are bringing in a tax revenue of 75 million dollars alone! 40 million in which they used to help to construct more schools. Canada smokes just as much as the US so it easy to say that they can predict similar intakes that can also as well be used to help support more useful causes. In the end, legalizing marijuana does not only benefit the people that smoke it, but also everyone in the …show more content…
In many scenarios, when a non smoker hears about the word marijuana, they immediately turn to think of words such as pothead, dropout, or junkie. But what makes this wrong is it only applies to a small percentage of people that use the drug. Many people who have smoked this drug have turned out to be productive members in society and a well known example of this is Barack Obama, he smoked and did not turn out to be a “junkie” or “pothead”. There is no logic behind calling someone that smokes a pothead as you can say this is equivalent to calling someone who drinks alcohol an alcoholic. Breaking this problem is the first step to realizing marijuana is not an issue and the stigma needs to be