Why Fear Something That Changes Lives? As a popular debate continues to grow in America, it leaves us all with questions and concerns that resonate in our minds. How can you legalize something that can be so harmful to you and others around you? Yet, how can you not legalize something that can be medically beneficial to so many in such great pain and despair?
The hot topic in the United States today is: to smoke or not to smoke? Tobacco is not the controversial topic; it is marijuana. Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana and just this past month, Alaska joined them. It is actually legal to walk into an approved “weed” shop and purchase legal marijuana with zero threat of legal implications. Many debates arise with the pros and cons of legalizing marijuana, but those are normal health debates. There was a time when alcohol was illegal in the time of prohibition and now it can be purchased at any local convenient store. In twenty years, will it be the same for every state in the country for the legalization of marijuana? The answer is yes. While critics will continue to debate
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Colorado’s economy improved when the state legalized marijuana. Colorado made $10 million in taxes in the first four months marijuana became legal (Eutaw). Marijuana can help reduce the symptoms of severe drug withdraws. It helps with pain, medical conditions and also with nausea. But everyone against the legalization of marijuana says that it makes people lazy and unambitious. Some people do not like the “high” or the smoke that goes along with it. Smoke is very hazardous also. The risk of cancer and damage to the lungs is high, for regular long term users. Like with most things in life, there is good and bad to the legalization of marijuana. The citizens of America are trying to decide, does the good outweigh the