One of the main reasons I endorse marijuana legalization goes back to the times I researched the start of its Prohibition. During the early 1930s a man named Willian Randolph Hearst, head of the Burea of Narcotics at the time, fueled a drug war based upon racial prejudice against the Mexicans. Hearst owned a timber company and a paper production company that helped manufacture and distribute paper across the nation. During the 1930s however, Hearst took advantage of the high amounts of racism.
I personally do not smoke marijuana; for I believe the appropriate age to consume or smoke marijuana should be 18.
Another reason why I think marijuana should be legal is because of the medical benefits marijuana provides. Cancer patients, especially people diagnosed with brain tumors, smoke medical marijuana in order to ease their pain and suffering. Why should these people be suffering, when there is an opportunity for them to live their lives easier? Anorexia and loss of appetite are side effects of cancer. In order to counter-react with the effects, cancer patients are advised by most doctors to smoke marijuana for the drug THC is able to restore loss appetite
To this day, I wonder why other drugs that are more dangerous than marijuana are available. Alcohol can bring out the worst in people, and yet there has never been a case where a person has died of marijuana overdose.
If I were to put a 100 people in one barn and place a free bar that serves alcoholic beverages and another barn where I put a 100 people with a stash of marijuana, tell me which party would you rather go to? Marijuana should be legal for I find no reason for adults to NOT smoke it.
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