Marijuana legalization is a huge topic around the country. There are many states that have already legalized the use, and many more that are thinking about legalizing it. The main concerns about legalizing marijuana is that it can cause more harm and danger to its users and the country. Those reasons are it will not really add to the country, more people may start using it or turning to worse drugs and, marijuana is not the same as it used to be 30 or 40 years ago. Although there are pros and cons to everything, legalizing marijuana seems to have more cons than pros. To start off, legalizing marijuana will not add anything to the country that will be a significant enough change to show it is worth legalizing. Obviously, with being able to
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Now these products may have a few similarities, but in the end, being compared to those two drugs is not necessarily a good thing. In the article “Marijuana is Harmful: Debunking 7 Myths Arguing It’s Fine”, Sabet writes “In fact, because they are used at such high rates due to their wide availability, our two legal intoxicants cause more harm, are the cause of more arrests, and kill more people than all illegal drugs combined.” With that, why would you want to add another legal drunk to that list to increase deaths and injuries? Not all people can control themselves when they get intoxicated, so those same people may not be able to control themselves when they are high. Just like alcohol and tobacco, there is a legal age to buy and use it, but under aged people are still getting their hands on it, mostly from having legal adults but it for them. Now this will probably be the same thing that happens with marijuana. People who cannot legally buy the drug, will find other ways to get it, even though most of those ways will be …show more content…
The main concerns about legalizing marijuana is that it can cause more harm and danger to its users and the country. Those reasons are it will not really add to the country, more people may start using it or turning to worse drugs and, marijuana is not the same as it used to be 30 or 40 years ago. Although there may be pros to legalizing marijuana, in the end, the cons outweigh the
Now these products may have a few similarities, but in the end, being compared to those two drugs is not necessarily a good thing. In the article “Marijuana is Harmful: Debunking 7 Myths Arguing It’s Fine”, Sabet writes “In fact, because they are used at such high rates due to their wide availability, our two legal intoxicants cause more harm, are the cause of more arrests, and kill more people than all illegal drugs combined.” With that, why would you want to add another legal drunk to that list to increase deaths and injuries? Not all people can control themselves when they get intoxicated, so those same people may not be able to control themselves when they are high. Just like alcohol and tobacco, there is a legal age to buy and use it, but under aged people are still getting their hands on it, mostly from having legal adults but it for them. Now this will probably be the same thing that happens with marijuana. People who cannot legally buy the drug, will find other ways to get it, even though most of those ways will be …show more content…
The main concerns about legalizing marijuana is that it can cause more harm and danger to its users and the country. Those reasons are it will not really add to the country, more people may start using it or turning to worse drugs and, marijuana is not the same as it used to be 30 or 40 years ago. Although there may be pros to legalizing marijuana, in the end, the cons outweigh the