Should Marijuana Be Legalized Essay

I think that marijuana should be legalized. Marijuana should be legalized for many, many reasons. First reason would be for medical purposes. Secondly mostly everyone smokes it so there’s no point of it being “illegal” if everyone does it anyways. I don’t take part in smoking or anything like that but it makes no sense if no one is going to follow the law. Then again if you think about it there are so many down takes in making it legal. Second hand smoke is something that would be bad if we legalized it, there would be much more accidents just like when people drive drunk. 58% of americans are in favor of this plant to be legalized, and around 40% of them admitted to smoking it. If you are ok with people ingesting alcohol then you are making no sense because alcohol is in the lead of drugs that harm others and harm users. Marijuana is also a gateway …show more content…
At the end of the day everyone is entitled to their own opinion and all but there is always going to contradictory about what is better and how abstinence is better but everyone is going to think what they want. Whether marijuana is legalized or not people are not going to care and still use it whether it’s for medical purposes or just because they like it and they are addicted. I feel like Marijuana is going to end up being legalized because if it’s already legal in 3 states what makes you think that sooner or later it’s not going to be legal in all 50 states. It’s common sense that no one is going to listen to the law for example isn’t cocaine, meth, and ecstasy are illegal drugs in the U.S. but yet you can turn on the corner of the street and there will be people using it. I personally think that if it is legalized the economy and my generation is going to go down the drain, and illegal transportation of drugs from other countries to the U.S. is going to increase because they already do it so why not when it’s