Should Cannabis Be Legalised Research Paper

Should Cannabis be legalised? a persuasive article by Sam Layet

The most addictive drug known to man is already legal and it cost £6bn to police every year. Half of the young people in the country use it, and so do most adults.

Alcohol, it causes more damage to society than cannabis ever will. Alcohol harms at least three times the amount of people cannabis harms. What is truly frightening about it is that most of the people who are harmed by alcohol use aren't the user but the people abused or hurt or affected by the person under the effects of alcohol. Imagine for example if your relative or friend was mowed down by a drunk driver? This why I don’t think that a drug like alcohol should be legal while a less harmful substance, such as cannabis

This would improve people's views on cannabis and increase the health of users. Adding tax to marijuana sellers and tax on the users would also be an effective technique. We would also implement an age limit of course and weaker varieties if the buyer chooses. Making cannabis legal and safe would make cannabis related drug crime virtually die out because of the availability of safer remedies. So you should talk to your local politician and ask them about their views on this subject; the more we do this the more likely cannabis will be legalised and the more our nation will be

This is very worrying and shows how serious and dangerous the drug trade is. I think it is about time we crack down on the illegal drug industry. This could be done by creating easily available, less harmful types of cannabis. This would make the illegal trade of cannabis drop, as who would buy expensive contaminated cannabis when they could easily get clean natural cannabis. Fighting the drug trade by keeping the drug illegal doesn't help! The druggies are still going to find themselves some of it and if they do it this way, it's more harmful for them and benefits criminals such as the drug dealers and drug gangs. This why we should legalise it. Our whole country would benefit from it. If we did legalise cannabis the government would have £500m to spare, which we could use to address more serious problems in our society, such as poverty and crime. It is in no way effecting our society as much as the other