Page 1 Taylor Koontz Mr. Nelson English 11 November 11, 2014 Legalizing Marijuana Growing up in the United States children are told not to do drugs, in recent years however, does marijuana count? Everyone in the United States is torn over this topic, 'why?' You might ask. Some believe that marijuana is addictive, causes distorted sense of thinking, paranoia, and short-term forgetfulness. There are people on the opposing side though. These people have actually thought about both the good and the bad of marijuana and then made a decision based on research. They have concluded that marijuana can help control any kind of seizures, protect many people from the terrible symptoms of PTSD, Parkinson's Disease, Lupus, Hepatitis C, and Sclerosis (including many other muscle …show more content…
As this drains the government's money, we could be saving this money by Page 4 legalizing the drug. This will also cut prison/jail spending costs, along with keeping people out of jail. This will help people actively participate in their community helping the economic and social hierarchy in their community (Smith, 1). In another context, marijuana is not cheap by any means and if we were to tax it? America could make more money than ever. On average there is an estimated 113 billion dollars worth of marijuana trading in marijuana. That is 45 billion dollars in taxes getting away from us (Smith, 1). In a different sense, legalizing marijuana would help farmers. This would cause almost more of an effect than when cotton and tobacco came into play in our economy. Along with this increase in farming will come an increase in jobs (Smith,1). The increase in tourism will positively affect the economy as well. Amsterdam has a liberalized marijuana policy and it has more tourist in since then (Smith,1). Marijuana has many benefits that people overlook from all of the negative effects of