Argumentative Essay: The Legalization Of Marijuana

People should stop arguing about the use of marijuana and how marijuana is bad, because people only like to research the cons instead of including the pros. Despite the fact that people believe everything they hear, they should look up more and try to see how good marijuana can be for them. Marijuana is good for their health, and it has helped to cure people who are very ill. Marijuana is less harmful than tobacco or alcohol, there has been studies proven that people have died over drinking other than by smoking marijuana. Marijuana will be able to have less people prosecuted for the possession of carrying it around, which will help people not get arrested for a small amount of marijuana.
Marijuana relieves the pain, as it has been proven to also cure diseases. In the article, Three Puffs a Day Helped People With Nerve Pain, Study Finds, Kathleen Doheny says, “three puffs a day of cannabis, better known as marijuana, helps people with chronic

nerve pain due to injury or surgery feel less pain and sleep better.” Here Kathleen Doheny is explaining that with only a few puffs of marijuana, you are less likely to feel pain and you will be able to rest more. A lot of people have complained about pain, but if they only take a hit they can get over the pain without having to take any medications that they cannot afford to buy. Also, in the article, Why I Changed My Mind On Weed, Dr. Sanjay Gupta says, “We have been ‘systematically misled’ on marijuana, it does not have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works.” Dr. Sanjay Gupta, here, asserts that many are mistaken by believing that marijuana is a horrible drug, and in reality, using marijuana actually helps decrease the pain of many medical conditions. By using marijuana it can help people to not suffer and they won’t feel the need to always go to the doctor and take forever to be attended. Although, some people claim that using marijuana doesn’t relieve any pain and that it is too addicting. However, studies have shown that using marijuana actually helps reduce pain and people won’t be worried when they have to take their medication. Therefore, people should not deny the use of marijuana for medical treatment because thanks to the studies that have been made, marijuana is helpful for keeping the pain away.
Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco because people have died more for the use of alcohol or tobacco. In the article, New Study Finds Marijuana Safer Than Alcohol or Tobacco, Justine Alford shows, “Scientists have confirmed what earlier studies have indicated: alcohol is the deadliest, while marijuana is the least risky.” Alford argues that there have been studies that marijuana doesn’t have nicotine unlike tobacco, and people have more danger when they drink alcohol, than when they smoke marijuana. So many people try to blame others, saying that marijuana can kill you, when in reality, marijuana is the least likely drug to kill you unlike tobacco or alcohol. Furthermore, in the article,The 10 Reasons Cannabis Is Far Safer Than Alcohol, Marco Torres argues, “Alcohol use damages the brain. Cannabis use does not. Despite the myths we’ve heard throughout our lives about cannabis killing brain cells, it turns out that a growing number of studies seem to indicate that cannabis actually has neuroprotective properties.” Torres explains that we shouldn’t believe everything we hear from others because studies have shown that marijuana can actually help protect your brain unlike alcohol or tobacco. No one, therefore, should be told to not smoke because it is good for their brain to be protected. Unfortunately, smoking too much of marijuana can hurt you, but the fact that people drink is a higher chance for someone to die and even have people get aggressive towards others unlike marijuana. However, people who smoke marijuana shouldn’t be forced to stop smoking only because people say its bad. People should do more of a research instead of believing what they hear, as it is clear that it is actually a fairly safe drug when used responsibly.
Less people will be prosecuted for the possession of marijuana, and not get arrested. In the article, FBI: 750,000 People Arrested for Simple Marijuana Possession And For What?, Marijuana Policy Project argues that “More than 750,000 people were arrested last year for simple possession! A remarkably small number of people who may have distributed marijuana were arrested last year, along with three quarters of a million simple users, in an effort to curb marijuana use nationwide.” Marijuana Policy Project shows that more people are prosecuted for the possession of marijuana and get arrested unlike any other crimes. Using marijuana doesn’t let people do bad things which is unbelievable that they get charged or even arrested. Furthermore, in the article, The Injustice of Marijuana Arrests, Jesse Wegman says, “The hundreds of thousands of people who are arrested each year, but do not go to jail also suffer; their arrests stay on their records for years, crippling their prospects for jobs, loans, housing and benefits.” Wegman is arguing that if marijuana was legal then less people will be prosecuted and it will not affect their social life. People should not have to suffer all because of a small amount of weed and should not be in jail for years or even a lifetime sentence. If marijuana is legalized, then the court system will be able to open up to more worst committed crimes and those criminals can be incarcerated, instead of the small usage of marijuana.
Although marijuana can hurt some people, why is it that people can go to the liquor and buy drinks and go home to drink it, but they can’t buy marijuana and go home to smoke it. However, marijuana should not be illegal because so many people get arrested or prosecuted which can affect their lifestyle.
It is unfair for people who get hurt or even killed for protesting and trying to show the pros of smoking marijuana.

Marijuana can do so much for the society if it is used right, which is why marijuana should be legal. The government should try and do their best if they do not want to have more people in jail , and that way they can build more schools by using the taxes of marijuana. Marijuana legalization can help so many people by taking away the pain and not have to worry about money on medication. Legalizing Marijuana is not as bad as alcohol or tobacco, which will not cause so much deaths, unlike alcohol or tobacco. If marijuana is legal then people will not have to worry about being prosecuted or even arrested for the simple possession of marijuana. Marijuana should be legalized and the government should stop making it such a big deal and not get more people into prison because studies have shown that there has been more prisons built since the 1980s compared to schools, and more money goes to prisons than to

schools.