LEGALIZE.

                Bud, pot, weed, maryjane, dope. There are so many words you can use to refer to good old marijuana. For those of you who aren’t fortunate enough to know what marijuana is, it is “a preparation made from the dried flower clusters and leaves of the cannabis plant, usually smoked or eaten to induce euphoria”. There are many ways to smoke weed all based on whatever your preference is. You can smoke it from bowls, bongs, bubblers, rolled in the form of a joint or a blunt and more.  Marijuana is indeed considered a drug, but “Don’t panic, it’s organic!”.

                Smoking marijuana is something many people do, and personally I don’t see what is wrong with it or understand why it is illegal in most states. I don’t find it dangerous whatsoever. You roll up, get high, eat more food then you usually would, laugh at the tv show you’re watching when it’s probably not even funny, and finally lose your high or fall asleep. I’ve never heard of an incident where smoking weed made someone violent like alcohol tends to do, yet alcohol is legal. That doesn’t seem to make sense to me, I just can’t seem to wrap my head around the concept.

                Tobacco kills 440,000 people in the United States each year, 370,000 people die from a poor diet, 85,000 from alcohol, and 32,000 from prescription drugs that were not abused. Tobacco, poor diet, alcohol and prescription drugs are all legal yet they account for almost one million deaths each year. Marijuana is not among these statistics because it is not known to cause death. When looking at it in this perspective, I feel as if whoever is responsible for making marijuana illegal must have now known anything about it.

                We’re occupying too much space in jails and prisons for crimes relating with possession and distributing a substance that is nearly harmless. We’re wasting tax payer’s money for what I feel isn’t a good reason at all. The government could in turn be making money off of this plant by making it legal and selling it.  

As you can see, I don’t agree with the marijuana law as a lot of people don’t. I believe that too much time and money is wasted over a plant that is on this earth naturally.  Instead of worrying so much about this, the United States should legalize it and worry about crimes that actually matter.

Although I disagree with the law I know there are people who disagree with me. On the flip side, marijuana does cause controversy and crime between rival drug dealers, but I believe this could all be avoided by legalizing the magical plant.