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This 3 page paper examines both sides of the issue while remaining neutral. The paper contains a great deal of facts related to legalization as well as the effects of marijuana.
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be legalized. Many argue that alcohol is far worse than pot and is a legal drug. In fact, people can die from alcohol poisoning. Yet, it is almost impossible to
die from an overdose of marijuana (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Further, marijuana actually does have medicinal benefits. Scientists studying marijuana have concentrated on its positive aspects to help
those with various illnesses such as strokes, cancer and AIDS ("NIH," 1998). It is well known that patients undergoing chemotherapy have found that marijuana lessens the unrelenting nausea associated with
such treatments. Other arguments for legalization are aligned with libertarian thinking, suggesting that people should decide what they want to do with their own bodies. Further, arguments for
legalizing all drugs also are related to the argument that legalization will not only reduce crime, but will provide a new substance to tax. Legalization is a win-win proposition. Of
course, there is the other side of the story too. Presently, pot is considered to be a Schedule I narcotic (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). While marijuana, like other
drugs, were legal in the past, something would happen to change the minds of Americans. Early in the twentieth century, anecdotal evidence suggested it made people violent and by the
1930s, the substance was illegal in all states (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). In 1936, Popular Science published an article calling the drug a "menace" (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson,
2003, p.156). The campaign against marijuana is more than seventy years old. Perhaps the most significant argument against the legalization of marijuana is not that it is in itself
harmful, but that it is a "gateway" drug. In other words, if one uses marijuana, they are more likely to use other, more dangerous substances. That is true, but because
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