Justin Burress
Mrs. Gallos
Eng III
3rd period
There has been many words thrown around about recreational marijuana use. Many people think that it is just stoners smoking all day just because they can. Do people actually come to realize that it can be good for schools and has so many laws and restrictions on it that it almost seems to be still illegal? Many reasons can be found to prove that it is a good thing and not a way to sit around and get high all day.
After Colorado passed Amendment 64 (the law that passed the recreational use of marijuana) it set into place that any Colorado resident over the age of 21 may purchase cannabis from any licensed dispensary. not everyone can come into Colorado and load up on all the marijuana they can hold. “No non-Colorado
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This tax can be used for anything the state deems the money necessary for. What does Colorado use this money for? “Legal marijuana in Colorado has already generated more than $15 million in tax revenue that is specifically earmarked for public schools”(Ferner, Matt. "Legal Marijuana In Colorado Has Already Generated $15 Million For Schools." The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post.com, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015.). Stop and think for a minute and imagine how more efficient and up kept our local schools would be if we had that much money just to put into education.
The use of medical marijuana is already legal in some states. This is just so doctors can prescribe very ill patients with cannabis to aid them. Medical marijuana is used to treat cancer, mental illness, and muscle diseases. In some cases with the use of medical marijuana people have had their cancer put into remission. People that say marijuana is a mind altering drug that makes people do stupid things or that marijuana is unhealthy for the body can actually be wrong. Has anyone ever heard of an ‘unhealthy mind altering drug’ putting hope back into someones life because their cancer was put into