Marijuana has been legalized in Eight states for recreational use, also several state in the United States legalizing medical marijuana. The U.S. needs to legalize the use and selling of it in shops for recreational and medical use. According to Medical Daily, “8.4 million people use marijuana every day” (6). If that many people use it everyday then the U.S. should legalize its use. People over the age of twenty-one can use cannabis in eight states for recreational, it can also be used for medication and it is put into some products for additional benefits.
For five millennia, Marunji has been used throughout the world medically, recreationally, and spiritually. “From the mid-19th century to the 1930s, American physicians prescribed it for a plethora of conditions, until the federal government started imposing restrictions on its use, culminating it in 1970 with the US Congress classifying it as illegal and without medical value” (2). Simultaneously with this
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California, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, Maine, and Massachusetts have legalized for recreational and medical use. Twenty-six states have legalized the medical use only, these state are: Montana, N. Dakota, Arizona, New mexico, Hawaii, Michigan, Louisiana, Arkansaw, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire (8). In general, California has allows adults twenty-one and over to possess, privately use, and give away up to one ounce of cannabis, and to cultivate no more than six plants for personal use at their residence. It also legalizes the commercial sale, distribution and production of cannabis for adult use at state-licensed facilities beginning January 1, 2018 (4). In Massachusetts, retail sales of cannabis are expected to start later this year in