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ENGL 1101
11/20/2015
The Pros and Cons of Medical Marijuana
Marijuana during the 70’s was much more acceptable than it is today. In fact it is a little unbelievable how different the opinions of marijuana are in this day and time. Even with all of the benefits the drug can offer, many are still against it. Marijuana has been around for many centuries and used for different reasons and cultures. Based on my research I have found that yes, there are down sides of using the drug but the good definitely outweigh the bad. So why try to make something that is beneficial and hardly harmful to many illegal. Many try to compare marijuana to alcohol as far as its damages but alcohol is far more damaging than the use of marijuana. In 2013 31% of …show more content…
During the 1900’s, shortly after the Mexican Revolution, there was a flood of immigration from Mexico into states like Louisiana and Texas. They brought over their culture and customs as well as their native language. Of course cannabis was one of their customs, they used cannabis as a medication and relaxant. “Marijuana” was how the Mexican immigrants referred to the plant, while Americans were very familiar with “cannabis” being that it was present in almost every medicine available during this time. The media began to rant about how the Mexicans were disrupting the states they had gone to, adding on to the fears that the public already had about the immigrants. They gave out false information about dangerous behaviors of the natives including their use of marijuana, the rest of the nation didn’t realize that marijuana was a plant they already possessed in their medicine cabinets. So in an effort to control and keep tabs on the new citizens El Paso, TX borrowed a play from San Francisco’s playbook. The play had outlawed opium decades earlier trying to control Chinese immigrants. They wanted to have an excuse to search, detain, and deport Mexican immigrants. The excuse became marijuana. This was a successful way of controlling people, it even became a national strategy that everyone began to take on so that they could keep certain populations under …show more content…
How can a society that allows the consumption of alcohol which kills thousands of people every year in traffic fatalities say that marijuana is a substance that should be prohibited for use by adults? Marijuana has many healing benefits and is already available through prescription in dozens of states. Its use and effect is almost none compared to the damages of alcohol. With alcohol being legal despite the many known downfalls so why not legalize marijuana as well. It seems that one of the reasons for marijuana to not be legalized is because of the control by the government. Being that it can’t be regulated or taxed they done want people to be free to use the substance. One day or another things should be changed, allowing everyone to use the drug freely for their religious, recreational, and medical
ENGL 1101
11/20/2015
The Pros and Cons of Medical Marijuana
Marijuana during the 70’s was much more acceptable than it is today. In fact it is a little unbelievable how different the opinions of marijuana are in this day and time. Even with all of the benefits the drug can offer, many are still against it. Marijuana has been around for many centuries and used for different reasons and cultures. Based on my research I have found that yes, there are down sides of using the drug but the good definitely outweigh the bad. So why try to make something that is beneficial and hardly harmful to many illegal. Many try to compare marijuana to alcohol as far as its damages but alcohol is far more damaging than the use of marijuana. In 2013 31% of …show more content…
During the 1900’s, shortly after the Mexican Revolution, there was a flood of immigration from Mexico into states like Louisiana and Texas. They brought over their culture and customs as well as their native language. Of course cannabis was one of their customs, they used cannabis as a medication and relaxant. “Marijuana” was how the Mexican immigrants referred to the plant, while Americans were very familiar with “cannabis” being that it was present in almost every medicine available during this time. The media began to rant about how the Mexicans were disrupting the states they had gone to, adding on to the fears that the public already had about the immigrants. They gave out false information about dangerous behaviors of the natives including their use of marijuana, the rest of the nation didn’t realize that marijuana was a plant they already possessed in their medicine cabinets. So in an effort to control and keep tabs on the new citizens El Paso, TX borrowed a play from San Francisco’s playbook. The play had outlawed opium decades earlier trying to control Chinese immigrants. They wanted to have an excuse to search, detain, and deport Mexican immigrants. The excuse became marijuana. This was a successful way of controlling people, it even became a national strategy that everyone began to take on so that they could keep certain populations under …show more content…
How can a society that allows the consumption of alcohol which kills thousands of people every year in traffic fatalities say that marijuana is a substance that should be prohibited for use by adults? Marijuana has many healing benefits and is already available through prescription in dozens of states. Its use and effect is almost none compared to the damages of alcohol. With alcohol being legal despite the many known downfalls so why not legalize marijuana as well. It seems that one of the reasons for marijuana to not be legalized is because of the control by the government. Being that it can’t be regulated or taxed they done want people to be free to use the substance. One day or another things should be changed, allowing everyone to use the drug freely for their religious, recreational, and medical