rough draft research paper

Rough draft

     You may have heard of the drug Marijuana, the cash crop, the most used drug in the whole country. Others call it weed and others call it pot. The so called gateway drug is consumed by millions and yet it’s illegal, but what if it wasn’t?  Legalizing marijuana is a controversial topic all over the world. The topic is literally spoken about everywhere, you name it. It’s on the television, the internet, blogs, and even newspapers, but is this changing what people think about the class one drug so called weed? The fact that marijuana is illegal in most of the states makes the so called cash crop a rude awakening for some teenagers parents. Many people all over the world are trying to prove that this illegal plant is not harmful rather helpful to the human health. This may sound crazy, but what people have been saying about weed might have been a lie the whole time.  Some people find it hard to believe legalizing marijuana would help the county because of it bad image it has in our society. I think if marijuana is legalized it would change the world.

There are 18 states that marijuana is legal and the tax revenue that some of these states are receiving are large. How has marijuana help these states financial wise? Let’s look at Arizona for example the Attorney general tom home has taxed medical marijuana with every purchase. That tax rate goes for 6.6 percent. This could mean an estimate of 40 million dollars in tax revenue according to” state to benefit from taxation of medical ‘pot’. “Jan 29.2011:n.pag.print. Not only does this take help the state with their money, it’s a debt free society. This is very helpful due to our enormous national debt and I believe that if the cash crop is legal in a federal and national way, it will not a chunk off.  I can add in to this by saying that if we were to legalize pot in the U.S. then teens wouldn’t try to get a hold of it and try to sell it. If we think about this in a conceptual analysis way, meaning critical thinking, we can conclude that once marijuana is legal, there will be no need for the teens of trying to sell it. It will be knocked right off the black market because they will be no need to go out and find it illegally. Conflicts will lessen and it would be safer for the teens and I guarantee that some parents would like that.

Ok so in society Marijuana has a bad reputation of killing brain cells, causing mental illness, being highly addictive, being more damaging than tobacco and ultimately is a gateway drug. None of these common ideas about the drug have yet been proven, and some have even been proven false Fischer, Chealsey . "Myths Lead To Marijuana's Bad Reputation." 420 Magazine News Team : 1. Print. I am going to compare the products that people use on a daily base or every once I awhile to marijuana to show what really is damaging. Tobacco cause numerous cancer and leads to death. Why would something that kills you be legal in the market? People’s families are destroyed because of tobacco. It just simply isn’t healthy at all for you. Now alcohol is bad for you as well. People die from drinking too much of it and when they get behind the wheel it is even worse. This effects the liver in many ways that people don’t even realize. Why does our government promote these products knowing that it kills us?

Marijuana use has positive attributes, such as its medical values and use as a recreational drug with relatively mild side effects. Autism for example is a very serious condition that kids have. Heartbroken and desperate, an Oregon family has turned to medical marijuana to help manage their son's self-destructive rages. They say the treatment, which has sparked controversy, has helped their child, described as "severely autistic," like nothing else has)." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 31 Jan. 2013. Web. 21 May 2014.. This medical marijuana changed their whole image of the drug and now use it for son. Being happy is what matters in this life not feeling miserable. The natural plant has helped this family a lot and they always had have a bad image towards it.  Marijuana also has an effect on one of the worse diseases out there cancer. A scientist in the United Kingdom has found that compounds derived from marijuana can kill cancerous cells found in people with leukemia. People are finding more and more good things that marijuana helps. The Institute for the Study of Labor released a large study in January 2012 that showed a 5% drop in suicide rates in US states that had legalized medical marijuana. Meanwhile, states that had kept it criminalized saw suicides rates climb. Sick, disabled, and depressed people suddenly having legal access to something that takes their pain away and makes them feel good, and not killing themselves as a result, is something too awesome to ignore.

I have come to a conclusion that marijuana isnt bad for you. Something is just telling me that our government just doesn’t want it to be legalized because of our health. The substances that are legal are the ones that kill us and hurt us. There are so many un answered questions about marijuana that scientist are dying to answer, but can’t because simply its illegal. Just look at the facts! The most important one is it has an annual death rate of zero. People are just getting brained washed through the media that is controlled by the government about the drug. It helps our health.