Medical Marijuana Argumentative Essay

Opponents argue that Medical Marijuana is addictive and dangerous and it is not approved by FDA. They said that medical marijuana is an excuse for drug legalization and recreational use. Some claim that Marijuana is not a medicine and have the same side of effect as smoking tobacco, chronic cough and wheezing. Studies have been done on adolescents that long term memory impairment increases over time, prolonged psychomotor performance impairment, 600% increases in the incidence of schizophrenia. It can also cause mental and physical ill issues. Not to mention we already spend billions of dollars on Medicare treating tobacco smokers from lung sicknesses and the mental ill. These studies are worth acknowledging but are there more benefits to Medical

If the excessive profit for marijuana were to end through legalization there would be less incentive for people to sell it to one another. Marijuana is a multimillion dollar industry. The illegality makes outside development and smuggling to the United States extremely profitable. Sending millions of dollars overseas in an underground economy and diverting funds from productive economic development. Just putting a 7% tax on marijuana would help the growth of the economy. If all 50 states legalized Marijuana today, they could be jointly bring in more than $3 billion a year in taxes. That could provide more money to create better policies towards helping our country as a whole. Legalizing it would also stop putting it in the hands of the criminal and into the hand of the legitimate business man and could provide many jobs at a time when jobs are much needed. It could help many states that are finding themselves closer and closer to economic

But the truth was more people were just moving to Colorado for jobs and for a fresh start. Medical marijuana was one of the benefit to moving there. Lawmakers realized the crime rate had actually been dropping rather than increasing. It also freed up funds to state agencies and city police forces, allowing officers to focus on the violent crimes, instead of wasting time and money up in chasing a non-violent crime offenders such as marijuana users. Using FBI data, the researchers looked at the crime rates for homicide, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and auto theft, in all 50 states then looked at the 11 states that legalized the drug before and after the law passed and it did show a decrease of the most violent crimes: homicide and assault. It would also reduce the amount of prisoners who are serving time for marijuana possession of nonviolent drug crimes. About half of these criminals are marijuana offenders, which means one-sixth of our country’s prisoners are in jail for marijuana-related charges. Legalizing the drug would mean spending $11.3 billion less a year on prisons (that’s our tax money). Not including the time and money prosecuting these prisoners. It is much more profitable for the state to legalize