Arguments Against Marijuana

The arguments for and against marijuana are biased, and depending on background, faith, and other important factors its usually made to be the worst out of the drugs, which is nowhere near truth. The main argument that is always used by the anti-pot movement community is that it’s a gateway drug that leads you to want to do other drugs, which yes, is partially true, but just as bad as those other drugs could be, they lead to the same place alcoholism leads. Although pot is seen as a gateway drug, anything can really be a gateway. If you want to do hard drugs then there’s no one to stop you, but if you simply want to ease pain, anxiety, stress, and help your mild eating problems then there is no better solution than marijuana. They’ll also say

Marijuana isn’t the problem, people are. Marijuana is used to treat cancer patients, it is used by elderly people who grew tired of over paying for their medicine, it is used by children who suffer from seizures, it is also used by people who have chronic pain. The legalization of pot would only help us take the product off the hand of the crime syndicates that push it and put that control in the hands of the government and it would also help us start fixing our near dire debt situation! Our infrastructure has failed, we have gone nearly broke, and legalizing marijuana would fix that situation easier than it does to try and keep it out of the hands of the users. We must learn from our past mistakes as we did with alcohol prohibition, those that want it will get it either

The gains would come from tax revenues on pot sales and savings to the justice system – including the cost of keeping smokers in jail. Since prohibition is never going to stop people smoking dope, the state may as well make money out of it. Colorado raked in more than $5 million in the first week after legalizing retail sales. It could also be a major boom to the economies of producing countries. One Jamaican company recently struck a $100 million deal to supply Colorado with medicinal ganja. We have chosen to demonize marijuana, we have chosen to incarcerate millions of people at the hands of a nearly harmless drug (depending on the users obviously), now we must decriminalize it and free the people who have been wronged by our government. I believe that legalizing marijuana would simply make everything better for us as a country; it would help us drastically with our money problems, help start funding for other programs that have been taken money out of previously (education department has been the worst to suffer), make more space in jails and prisons, and this would raise the morale and the confidence constituents have in their government. "There is now promising research into the use of marijuana that could impact tens of thousands of children and adults, including treatment for cancer, epilepsy and Alzheimer's, to name a few. With regard to pain