Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

Marijuana has been a very controversial topic in recreation and medicinal use and opposing sides question it’s use’s in society and whether it should be legal or not. Marijuana should be legalized in the United States for medical and recreational uses because it would benefit society medically and economically. Marijuana is no more harmful than other products sold on the market such as alcohol or tobacco and should be marketed as such. “The generals public’s (as cited in Cox and et al, 2009 p.528) view is that marijuana use is harmless, and in one’s own home I think it is the case,” says Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, co-director of the Drug

Policy Center at the RAND Corp., a California think tank”.

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LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA

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Although many people favor legalization of marijuana, the current position of the

Department of Justice is that dronabinol is adequate for currently approved medical needs and that marijuana is a gateway drug whose use leads to use of more dangerous drugs”.

Researches have noted that (as cited on Anne Arundale County Department of Health,

2016) Cigarette smoke is poisonous to the human body and has approximately seven thousand chemicals and about 70 that cause cancer. “Every year, secondhand smoke causes more than

202,000 asthma episodes and 790,000 doctor visits due to ear infections. Smoking is the single largest cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. Every hour, more than 50

Americans die from smoking cigarettes. That’s about 440,000 people a year. Smoking kills babies. Every year in the U.S., about 2,000 deaths from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) are linked to secondhand tobacco smoke. More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides and murders combined”.

“Much of the concern (as cited by Brownstein, 2014) for marijuana, is with