Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

Marijuana comes from the cannabis plant, it’s a psychoactive drug, medicine, and hemp fiber. Marijuana legalization has been universally debated for years now. We have to ask ourselves: Will conviction rates for marijuana possession go up or down? Will legalization lead to its increase or decrease of use? Is cannabis even as dangerous as other legal substances? Basically, will legalization of marijuana cause more harm than good or more good than harm? We can graph whatever we want, we can gather all the statistics and data we need, but no one will know until they make a move. Marijuana should be legalized because it may impact or possibly cure certain diseases, minimize/ prevent accidental overdoses, and medical users may be offered in-state treatment.

Studies show at least ten diseases in which medical marijuana may a positive influence on, or possibly cure. “There is now promising research into the use of marijuana that could impact tens of thousands of

“With regard to pain alone, marijuana could greatly reduce the demand for narcotics and simultaneously decrease the number of accidental painkiller overdoses, which are the greatest cause of preventable death in this country.” The number of deaths from prescription drugs had a 2.8 fold increase in the U.S. from the year 2001 to 2014, this included both female and male. The same data was gathered those years but for number of deaths due to prescription opioid pain relievers and the fold increase was 3.4. (National Institute on Drug Abuse) Since marijuana acts like a pain reliever let's imagine we were to switch out pain relievers for medical marijuana instead, it would be close to impossible to accidentally overdose on cannabis alone. The fatal dose is nearly one third of your body weight says U.S. Government authority, or an all at once intake of 1,500