Fighting Marijuana
One the most controversial issues of 2016, the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana also known as weed. Current president Barrack Obama himself in an interview with the Rolling Stones expressed his views on Marijuana. He believes that marijuana should be legalized and taxed the way alcohol and tobacco are. Is this really a good idea? Yes, this would create more jobs and lower the unemployment rate, but not for long if America becomes a country full of potheads. Weed can be a dangerous drug mainly because it is known for being an open gate drug, it can cause someone to use other high risk drugs. It has been proven that smoking weed can also make a person less intelligent. Most importantly its just wrong to do …show more content…
Jonson makes a strong argument for legalizing marijuana. In in the article “the case for drug legalization” he acknowledges that “we are presently spending 50 billion a year to combat drugs. I’m talking about the police, court, and jail.” (283) he makes a strong point. we can be using that money on other important things like education, providing all citizens with health care, or even improving our roads. But still many people disagree with this claim like William j. Bennett in “should drugs be legalized”. He argues “and what good would antidrug legalization do to antidrug education when these youngsters observe their older brother and friend lighting up and shooting up with the governments permission”. And this is very true since most kids see their parents and older siblings as role models. Younger kids always want to do things that their parents do for example, if u ask a kid what they want to be when they are older they will most likely respond by saying “I want to be just like my daddy or mommy.” What kind of parent would you be using drugs in front of your child? That’s not what kids should look forward to growing up. Alcohol has already killed to many people “just in 2015 alone more than 30,000 people died from the use of alcohol” stated by the “Washington post” that’s a lot of people. Think of how many more people would die from using stronger drugs. To many people have already died we don’t need any more drug related
One the most controversial issues of 2016, the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana also known as weed. Current president Barrack Obama himself in an interview with the Rolling Stones expressed his views on Marijuana. He believes that marijuana should be legalized and taxed the way alcohol and tobacco are. Is this really a good idea? Yes, this would create more jobs and lower the unemployment rate, but not for long if America becomes a country full of potheads. Weed can be a dangerous drug mainly because it is known for being an open gate drug, it can cause someone to use other high risk drugs. It has been proven that smoking weed can also make a person less intelligent. Most importantly its just wrong to do …show more content…
Jonson makes a strong argument for legalizing marijuana. In in the article “the case for drug legalization” he acknowledges that “we are presently spending 50 billion a year to combat drugs. I’m talking about the police, court, and jail.” (283) he makes a strong point. we can be using that money on other important things like education, providing all citizens with health care, or even improving our roads. But still many people disagree with this claim like William j. Bennett in “should drugs be legalized”. He argues “and what good would antidrug legalization do to antidrug education when these youngsters observe their older brother and friend lighting up and shooting up with the governments permission”. And this is very true since most kids see their parents and older siblings as role models. Younger kids always want to do things that their parents do for example, if u ask a kid what they want to be when they are older they will most likely respond by saying “I want to be just like my daddy or mommy.” What kind of parent would you be using drugs in front of your child? That’s not what kids should look forward to growing up. Alcohol has already killed to many people “just in 2015 alone more than 30,000 people died from the use of alcohol” stated by the “Washington post” that’s a lot of people. Think of how many more people would die from using stronger drugs. To many people have already died we don’t need any more drug related