Legalizing Marijuana
Bill Hicks once said, “Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit…unnatural?”(Good-reads). So why is marijuana illegal if it is a crop that naturally grows on Earth? Although there is much skepticism about the legalization of marijuana, countries and states that have already legalized it are shutting down these concerns. Marijuana legalization is beneficial for economic growth because of personal, medicinal, and industrial use.
Marijuana first spread from China to India and Europe as early as A.D. 500, according to History.com. In the mid 1500s, the Spanish brought marijuana to the New World and by the mid 1900s, the United States listed it as a Schedule One drug along with heroin and LSD. Now, …show more content…
Colorado has pulled in a vast amount of money since the legalization of marijuana in the state. Harry Bradford from The Huffington Post states, “In 2011, Colorado reeled in $5 million in sales taxes from medical marijuana businesses”(Bradford). Opening new businesses typically creates debt, but marijuana is so popular amongst various groups of people, that it can only expand and create more jobs and open in more locations. Bradford continues and writes that the United States government could “save an estimated $13.7 billion” on prohibition enforcement costs and tax revenue if the drug is legalized nationwide. This shows that one crop has the power to singlehandedly take the United States out of its whopping sixteen trillion dollar debt within its first fifteen years of …show more content…
Marijuana can be used for more than just personal and medicinal use. Dale Gieringer asserts that legalizing cannabis would create many subsidiary industries such as coffee houses and other paraphernalia. He writes, “The city of Amsterdam, who has legalized marijuana, brands about three hundred coffee houses that retail in cannabis”(Gieringer). Gieringer continues, “The legalization of cannabis would also permit the agriculture of hemp, a versatile source of fiber, protein, and oil, which was once one of America’s top crops”(Gieringer). Since hemp has been used in the past and it was on of the “top crops” in American at one point, then it should be used again. The legalization of marijuana would also launch many new businesses associated with marijuana that are not just the average shops. Like the coffee houses in Amsterdam, the United states could also open subsidiary businesses such as dessert shops since eating marijuana infused baked goods is also presently popular amongst the younger generations of
Bill Hicks once said, “Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit…unnatural?”(Good-reads). So why is marijuana illegal if it is a crop that naturally grows on Earth? Although there is much skepticism about the legalization of marijuana, countries and states that have already legalized it are shutting down these concerns. Marijuana legalization is beneficial for economic growth because of personal, medicinal, and industrial use.
Marijuana first spread from China to India and Europe as early as A.D. 500, according to History.com. In the mid 1500s, the Spanish brought marijuana to the New World and by the mid 1900s, the United States listed it as a Schedule One drug along with heroin and LSD. Now, …show more content…
Colorado has pulled in a vast amount of money since the legalization of marijuana in the state. Harry Bradford from The Huffington Post states, “In 2011, Colorado reeled in $5 million in sales taxes from medical marijuana businesses”(Bradford). Opening new businesses typically creates debt, but marijuana is so popular amongst various groups of people, that it can only expand and create more jobs and open in more locations. Bradford continues and writes that the United States government could “save an estimated $13.7 billion” on prohibition enforcement costs and tax revenue if the drug is legalized nationwide. This shows that one crop has the power to singlehandedly take the United States out of its whopping sixteen trillion dollar debt within its first fifteen years of …show more content…
Marijuana can be used for more than just personal and medicinal use. Dale Gieringer asserts that legalizing cannabis would create many subsidiary industries such as coffee houses and other paraphernalia. He writes, “The city of Amsterdam, who has legalized marijuana, brands about three hundred coffee houses that retail in cannabis”(Gieringer). Gieringer continues, “The legalization of cannabis would also permit the agriculture of hemp, a versatile source of fiber, protein, and oil, which was once one of America’s top crops”(Gieringer). Since hemp has been used in the past and it was on of the “top crops” in American at one point, then it should be used again. The legalization of marijuana would also launch many new businesses associated with marijuana that are not just the average shops. Like the coffee houses in Amsterdam, the United states could also open subsidiary businesses such as dessert shops since eating marijuana infused baked goods is also presently popular amongst the younger generations of