FREE ESSAY ON LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA

LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA

Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care,
National Lymphoma Foundation argue that marijuana should be legalized in order to treat
terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates
their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation; glaucoma sufferers who have
used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for whom
it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes
makes lifesaving treatment impossible. 
Due to all these lobbying groups which show substantial evidence that marijuana can be
used as a prescribed drug. Also many advocates who are pro marijuana complain that
morphine and cocaine are legal and are very dangerous drugs, that brings up the question
why not legalize marijuana as medical drug which is proven to be less dangerous than
cocaine and morphine. Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council committee
unanimously voted to urge president Bill Clinton and congress to end federal restrictions
against the use of marijuana for  legitiment medical use. City council women Christine
kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego to go on the record we support the medical
use marijuana.; marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma,
cancer and multiple sclerosis. ''
Many agencies which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency and police
departments argue that marijuana shouldn't be legalized. These agencies believe that
marijuana shouldn't be legalized because if marijuana is to become legal then thousands
more patients using marijuana. Then people will raise the question why marijuana is
illegal at all if its a medicine.
The main reason why the Drug Enforcement Agency doesn't want marijuana to be legal is
because their is no hard core evidence that proves that marijuana is a effective drug as
a medicine. In twenty years of research have produced no reliable scientific proof that
marijuana has medical value. The American Cancer Society , American Glaucoma Society,the
National Multiple Sclerosis, the American Academy of Ophthalmology , or the American
Medical Association , say that their is no evidence that marijuana is a medicine. The
agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked and that knew findings show
that marijuana is acutely harmful to AIDS, Cancer patients because the active ingredient
in marijuana acutely reduces the the bodies white blood cells which fight off infection.
The Drug Enforcement Agency along with police departments all over the United States
believe, with the legalization of drugs crime will increase due to a higher increase of
pot users which will eventually become addicts and will still or kill in order to get
their drugs. These are the main points and reasons why the Drug named marijuana shouldn't
be legalized in the United States of America.
Seeing booth sides of the issue we've come to a conclusion that marijuana should be
legalized in order to help people suffering from terminal diseases such as AIDS, Cancer
and Glaucoma. Prohibition of marijuana over the past decades hasn't deminshed the demand
of the drug in the United States. The use of marijuana has acutely went up due to the
mass attention given to marijuana by rappers such as Cypress Hill who promote the use of
marijuana as a social drug. But we believe that marijuana is here to stay in our society
and is only going through the stages that alcohol had during the prohibition era.
Marijuana will become legal due to the knew administration which is liberal and who's
leader , president Bill Clinton who had acutely used marijuana during the nineteen
sixties. Due to all these factors marijuana will become more widely accepted by the
American people who will pressure congress to rewrite the laws on the drug marijuana. Now
its only a matter of time before lobbying groups pressure the legislature to legalize it.
Due to legalization many states will be able to grow marijuana as a cash crop, and the
United States government will be able to tax marijuana and make revenue off it. The
revenue made from marijuana will be in the millions which can be used for drug rehabs and
anti drug programs targeted at elementary children. Still by seeing both sides of the
issue I'm still one hundred percent pro marijuana because we believe its less harmful
than beer or liquor because with marijuana you can't overdose.