How To Legalize Marijuana In The United States

Legalizing marijuana in the United States has become an extremely controversial topic despite the positive effects it could cause throughout this country. In the eyes of many, people are scared to legalize marijuana due to the fact that it is considered a drug. Let me state that unlike other drugs that are in the United States, marijuana includes no accidents or deaths to a human body by consuming the drug since its history with us. When people hear the word “drug”, they automatically assume that it is something that has a negative effect to one’s self. The word drug is defined as “a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body”. With that being said, you can experience a physiological …show more content…
People are too vulnerable to see the safety that it would bring to the United States if medical marijuana would actually be legalized. Too many things go on behind the government's back that only the eyes of drug dealers, or most consumers that buy marijuana illegally have seen. If the United States were to legalize marijuana, the crimes and violence that goes on due to the fact that the drug is illegal would be more likely to be avoided. Unfortunately, most Americans are blinded by these positive effects that are brought to the American society such as, the safety, medicinal purposes, and the economic boom that is brought to us by …show more content…
If marijuana were legal, the violence associated with it would disappear. Controlled distribution of the drug in a safe, regulated environment would eliminate the black market and its associated criminality. It worked with alcohol: the mobsters are no longer in control of alcohol, and police don't get shot making alcohol raids. We should take a lesson from history and legalize marijuana to reduce violence even further.” (Mann). This organization goes into details about how the illegal use of marijuana brings violence to innocent people. It states that marijuana is basically an invisible industry that is illegally sold throughout streets in America that is ran by dangerous people who are typically, mafia men, gangsters, or really big drug dealers, etc. They include an article that shows us how the illegal use of marijuana hurt two innocent victims, a dad and an 8 year old son. These two were intentionally murdered because a man decided to take his son for a little stroll but they accidentally took the wrong steps into a marijuana garden that was protected by two bodyguards whose sole