Cannabis Legalization
Cannabis is able to treat over 170 diseases , including Dravet Syndrome. Which is a rare, severe form of intractable epilepsy. Charlotte Figi suffers from Dravet Syndrome when, she was 2 years old she started having seizures. Her parents tried everything they could ranging from diets to many pharmaceutical drugs. None seemed to work , then amendment 20 was passed in Colorado in 2000. That 's when her parents decided to apply for medical marijuana. They bought cannabidiol oil , or CBD oil, which has no psychoactive properties one of many cannabinoids in the cannabis plant it purely medical no “high” is produced by CBD. The seizures went from, having five to ten seizures a day to no more than one a day. This is only one …show more content…
Why? The pharmaceutical companies make tons of money off of cannabis derived drugs, Why would they want cannabis legal when they cant patent or get a copyright on a plant, but they can copyright things that are made synthetically such as Marinol a synthetic version of thc. The exact same chemical is made in a lab. Its safe, but when its made by nature pharmaceutical companies say it will kill you, but its the exact same thing as they are making in a lab. The reason they do this is so they can patent synthetic THC, but can 't be patented when its made in nature and can be if its made in a lab. What would you rather have. Naturally made THC made by a plant or synthetically made THC made by a chemist in a lab. Alcohol companies fund the war on drugs to keep themselves making huge profit margins. If cannabis was legalized for recreational use and regulated just as alcohol is the alcohol companies would not profit nearly as much as they do now they would lose half of their business to people who would rather use cannabis than get drunk wake up with a hangover and feel horrible the whole day after or you could vaporize marijuana and spend less, be kinder to your liver, and wake up the next day feeling normal no hangover. The worst thing that can happen to you when you use cannabis is use too much which can easily be control, but could cause you to panic or fall asleep. The …show more content…
This makes up over forty percent of money spent on war against drugs annually . If we were to legalize cannabis we could earn that much money in taxes annually and we would save 20 billion annually by not having to fund the law enforcement costs. All of the money that would be made by taxing cannabis could be put back into schools. pay teachers more get better books provide the public with better city parks we could fix the mental health care system we could do so much just by legalizing a plant that should have never been outlawed in the first place.
How should we end prohibition? We should let the states decide just as we did with alcohol. When the prohibition ended in 1933 the states had a choice to either keep it ban or legalize it. The end of the prohibition of cannabis should be performed the same way states preside over alcohol and decide dry counties. Just as has started to happen in Colorado where there are towns and counties that have banned dispensaries from being in their town rather than having it be banned completely throughout the whole
Cannabis is able to treat over 170 diseases , including Dravet Syndrome. Which is a rare, severe form of intractable epilepsy. Charlotte Figi suffers from Dravet Syndrome when, she was 2 years old she started having seizures. Her parents tried everything they could ranging from diets to many pharmaceutical drugs. None seemed to work , then amendment 20 was passed in Colorado in 2000. That 's when her parents decided to apply for medical marijuana. They bought cannabidiol oil , or CBD oil, which has no psychoactive properties one of many cannabinoids in the cannabis plant it purely medical no “high” is produced by CBD. The seizures went from, having five to ten seizures a day to no more than one a day. This is only one …show more content…
Why? The pharmaceutical companies make tons of money off of cannabis derived drugs, Why would they want cannabis legal when they cant patent or get a copyright on a plant, but they can copyright things that are made synthetically such as Marinol a synthetic version of thc. The exact same chemical is made in a lab. Its safe, but when its made by nature pharmaceutical companies say it will kill you, but its the exact same thing as they are making in a lab. The reason they do this is so they can patent synthetic THC, but can 't be patented when its made in nature and can be if its made in a lab. What would you rather have. Naturally made THC made by a plant or synthetically made THC made by a chemist in a lab. Alcohol companies fund the war on drugs to keep themselves making huge profit margins. If cannabis was legalized for recreational use and regulated just as alcohol is the alcohol companies would not profit nearly as much as they do now they would lose half of their business to people who would rather use cannabis than get drunk wake up with a hangover and feel horrible the whole day after or you could vaporize marijuana and spend less, be kinder to your liver, and wake up the next day feeling normal no hangover. The worst thing that can happen to you when you use cannabis is use too much which can easily be control, but could cause you to panic or fall asleep. The …show more content…
This makes up over forty percent of money spent on war against drugs annually . If we were to legalize cannabis we could earn that much money in taxes annually and we would save 20 billion annually by not having to fund the law enforcement costs. All of the money that would be made by taxing cannabis could be put back into schools. pay teachers more get better books provide the public with better city parks we could fix the mental health care system we could do so much just by legalizing a plant that should have never been outlawed in the first place.
How should we end prohibition? We should let the states decide just as we did with alcohol. When the prohibition ended in 1933 the states had a choice to either keep it ban or legalize it. The end of the prohibition of cannabis should be performed the same way states preside over alcohol and decide dry counties. Just as has started to happen in Colorado where there are towns and counties that have banned dispensaries from being in their town rather than having it be banned completely throughout the whole