Persuasive essay: Legalization of Marijuana

[dpness26]

I intend to prove that marijuana should be legalized in the United States

Just recently, President Obama has made an American policy in the states of New Jersey, Minnesota, and Rhode Island that medical marijuana use is legal. Legalization of marijuana should be allowed in the U.S. for many reasons. One is for medicinal reasons. Marijuana soothes many daily aches and pains. You shouldn't have to be restricted for using a natural herb for medicinal reasons. Also, the government can tax it, and can lower the government income, and lower the rates of possession of marijuana. That means about 90% of the 700,000 Americans last year wouldn't have been arrested and jailed.
Marijuana should be used as a medicine, because scientists find that THC can be used to treat pain, inflammation, atherosclerosis, and osteoporosis, this means that if you have any kind of pain, whether it’s as serious as brain surgery, to a daily headache, Marijuana can and should be used to treat those kinds of pains. All of this is a natural way to heal those pains without euphoria, or interfering with the central nervous system.
If the government legalized and sold marijuana, they can make their income rise. They can tax the marijuana, put a legal age on it, and sell the marijuana at local convenience stores. The crime rate would go down a lot more. About 700,000 Americans were arrested for possession of marijuana. About 90% of those Americans were caught for simple possession, no trafficking or marketing. Most pot smokers use it in their private use, which means they aren’t becoming reckless and using it for recreation.
Smoking marijuana is as equal if not better than smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol. Marijuana is scientifically proven that it isn’t physically addictive, unlike tobacco. Drinking alcohol puts a worse effect to your liver than marijuana does to your brain. Marijuana shouldn’t be considered a drug, because it is impossible to over dose. Not one person has overdosed on just marijuana, in the history of the world.
As I list these facts I hope you see how marijuana isn’t a dangerous drug, and how pot should be legalized in the United States. Many famous Americans has either done or does marijuana. Some examples are president Obama, and 8 time gold medalist Michael Phelps. As you can see these successful men have completed their goals even with marijuana. These facts should be utilized by the government, and they should reconsider the prohibition of marijuana.

[dpness26]

the paragraphs got messed up as i copied it and pasted it from Microsoft Word, SORRY

-Dan Pollard

[nicolef]

I agree that marijuana should be legalized through out all of the United States for medical reasons. If a person is in excruciating pain and there is no other way to relieve the person of that pain than marijuana then it should be put to use. I also think that it would be a good idea for the government to sell marijuana and tax it as another source of income but the government should not keep an unlimited supply. The government should sell only a specific amount of marijuana every year and just like smoking is prohibited in certain places such as restaurants and most public places marijuana should too.
The introduction statement about President Obama making Marijuana legal for medical reasons in certain states is shocking because usually issues on marijuana use is hard to overcome when trying to pass a law on it. I think that this is a good opening statement because it shows how marijuana is slowly being accepted (in medical ways).
For the first paragraph about medical use of marijuana is a little short. Try adding some type of fact or maybe how you personally feel or if you know someone that might have needed marijuana to soothe their pain and could not obtain it because of the law.
In the conclusion, it was good that you identified two important people in today’s society that have done marijuana and yet still became successful. However try to also restate the three body paragraphs to remind the audience of your three reasons marijuana should be legal.

[juliab]

Although your opening line wasnt very attention grabbing i was very interested in your speech. i think marijuanna should be legalized as well for any type of use. I thought that part where where you talked about selling it in convienence stores was kinda funny but a good idea. if they would just legalize and tax it i definately think it would help a lot with our economic crisis right now. i also heard that in california, at hospitals, theyll have pot vending machines for patients. I liked your the fact about how no one has ever died from only smoking marijuanna. great research !