Marijuana legalization
People think that marijuana is bad. However, the truth is that it helps society. Marijuana should be legalized because it provides medical benefits for diseases, boosts the economy through generating tax revenue, and helps to decrease drug related crimes.
Marijuana Help AIDS/HIV Patients. For example, "[when] appropriately prescribed and monitored, marijuana/cannabis can provide immeasurable benefits for the health and well-being of our patients” (Institute). Additionally, “from working with AIDS and cancer patients, I repeatedly saw how marijuana could ameliorate a patient's debilitating fatigue, restore appetite, diminish pain, remedy nausea, cure vomiting and curtail down-to-the-bone weight loss” (Institute). They
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Data from the US Border Patrol show that marijuana seizures have decreased by millions of pounds and are at their lowest levels in over a decade, indicating that legal domestic production is decreasing demand for marijuana smuggled in from Mexico” (Institute). Furthermore, “According to the ACLU, legalization in Colorado and Washington has cost Mexican drug cartels an estimated $2.7 billion in profits” (institute). Since it has became legal people are not having to smuggle it from other countries.
Stephen Downing, a retired deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said, "There's no question that ending today's prohibition on drugs -- starting with marijuana -- would do more to hurt the cartels than any level of law enforcement skill or dedication ever can." By the year 2020, an estimated 90% of the marijuana market in Colorado will be supplied by licensed and taxed vendors, demonstrating that the black market can be replaced by legal, regulated sales.
By being legal it makes it were the Mexican cartels won’t be around because it is legal and they can’t sell drugs any more. The evidence showing shows that it really does decrease the