Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana was the biggest controversial topic of 2015. In the year of 1929, a man named Harry Anslinger was in charge of the Department of Prohibition in Washington, D.C. At first, he wasn’t against marijuana but once he didn’t have anything to talk about he changed his mind and said it was poisonous. Ever since then, it had people in frenzy. A boy named Victor Licata killed his family and Henry scared people even more when he said, “ This will happen if you smoke “the demon weed.” From that only, that raised a question: Should marijuana be legalized? In “Cannabinoapathic Medicine”, Lester Grinspoon, M.D., wrote about how he learned about the drug through his friends and that led him to believe that it was harmful. He later found out it wasn’t after he researched it; it had no medical justification of the prohibition. On the other hand, Kevin Sabet, Ph.D. wrote an article named Can we afford another Big Tobacco, which he wrote about how we aren’t benefiting from it and how health crises are brewing especially in Colorado. …show more content…
Even though he believed at first it wasn’t. Marijuana in his own words had “limited toxicity” meaning it had less toxic in it than any prescription especially aspirin, which he continued saying, “Compared to aspirin… cannabis (marijuana) is much safer.” Grinspoon soon found out that marijuana is safe and is incapable of causing the user of it to overdose. Marijuana though is not central nervous system depressants so it can’t cause respiratory failure. According to statistics it have more people than ever accepting the legalization of marijuana. The legalization of marijuana would help the cancerous people. It is clear that we now know enough about the medical potential of it. In the studies of the “Journal of the Canadian Medical Association “ it is stated that cannabis based drugs have no side