Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Marijuana

Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana is a type of drug that people can smoke or eat. The legalization of Marijuana has become a controversial topic. The reason that is has become a controversial topic in our society is that many people believe that legalizing Marijuana would cause a lot of chaos in our society. While others believe that legalizing Marijuana could actually benefit our society. There are twenty nine states including the District of Columbia that has legalized Marijuana which could be used for medicinal or recreational uses. There are many pros and cons for the legalization of Marijuana.
Pros
The legalization of Marijuana has many benefits such as medical usage. One medical usage is that Marijuana is a first rate treatment

The legalization of Marijuana would allow more people to have more job opportunities so that way it can keep the unemployment rate down. The way that this can happen by having people that at growing the Marijuana plant and having people dispenses the weed to people who are qualified to receive recreational and medicinal marijuana. Also, the Marijuana business is known as the “Green Rush” because many people believe that it could become a boom industry because of the fact that many people can legally buy Marijuana since it is one of the most popular drug uses there are and many investors are willing to plant what they call “seed money” because a lot of people would buy a load of it. The Marijuana business could make a lot of people money. The Medical Marijuana Conference had 30 people attend the conference and each person paid sixteen thousand dollars each. Many people believe that once Marijuana is legal in all fifty states that it will become a ten billion dollar industry within the next five years because the business is steadily growing at a rapid pace. With more people investing in this business could lead to the economy getting better and lead to a lot of people who are in jail for selling Marijuana a brighter future. The legalization of Marijuana could be a great benefit for business and agriculture because of the fact that many people could have a job and make a

One negative quality about was that many people who smoke Marijuana once it is legal might force them to look for a stronger substance drug because they are not feeling that same high from smoking Marijuana. This would be a worry for many because they might start smoking Crack Cocaine or start being hooked on Heroin and might end up having overdoses. They also believe that once people start buying Marijuana legally it might cause drug dealers to try to push more drugs into the streets and in hopes that drug will become stronger or might enraged the current people who are selling Marijuana illegally and cause them to rob people because they no longer get money from selling Marijuana. Another reason many people are against legalizing Marijuana is that they believe that kids would want to smoke Marijuana and become hooked. Once hooked they would want to try other drugs. They believe that Marijuana would become a “gateway drug” which could cause overdoses and addicts at kids at a young age. They also believe that many people would take an advantage of the legalization of Marijuana because of the fact that once its legal many workers would fake injury into needing the drug or it would slow them down on their work ethics. They believe that many people would be too depended on Marijuana. The disadvantages of legalizing Marijuana is that many people would