The cost of weed? No, the cost of prohibition of weed. The hundreds of thousands of arrests for marijuana costs on average more than 3.6 billion. That’s just the cost of enforcing the laws. (8) There’s no benefits to marijuana? What are the benefits of criminalizing it? Besides pumping money to the courts. The war on drugs was a failure because it didn’t cut down on the number of users. (13) Paragraph 16 makes an argument of absurdity because how can you predict who would’ve committed a crime because the got arrested for petty crime. Those “minor charges” can ruin someone’s life. Even the gateway effect was diccarded. The next main point talks about the racism instilled in prohibition. “The campaign to make pot illegal was “firmly rooted in prejudices against Mexican immigrants and African Americans, who were associated with pot at the time.” The word marijuana itself was popularized as a way to associate the plant with
The cost of weed? No, the cost of prohibition of weed. The hundreds of thousands of arrests for marijuana costs on average more than 3.6 billion. That’s just the cost of enforcing the laws. (8) There’s no benefits to marijuana? What are the benefits of criminalizing it? Besides pumping money to the courts. The war on drugs was a failure because it didn’t cut down on the number of users. (13) Paragraph 16 makes an argument of absurdity because how can you predict who would’ve committed a crime because the got arrested for petty crime. Those “minor charges” can ruin someone’s life. Even the gateway effect was diccarded. The next main point talks about the racism instilled in prohibition. “The campaign to make pot illegal was “firmly rooted in prejudices against Mexican immigrants and African Americans, who were associated with pot at the time.” The word marijuana itself was popularized as a way to associate the plant with