In the late 1960s to early 1970s, the drug in marijuana known as THC, was found to be the reason why marijuana caused people to get high. After the discovery of this, the use of marijuana sky rocketed. Discovery of THC The discovery of THC caused people to become very interested in the drug. Not only did people want to know more about the drug but they wanted to know how to make it stronger. Techniques of growing the drug became common knowledge and in the late 70s, smoking marijuana became huge. Not only did the drug attract millions of people to do it, it also started giving people bad reputations who smoked it. The hippie movement in the late 60s became highly attracted to the drug and ever sense, people who smoke the drug has been given a bad reputation. The drug is similar to other legal drugs like cigarettes and alcohol, but it’s reputation makes it seem that marijuana is a lot worse than it actually is. There are too very distinct sides to the legalization of marijuana.Two sides One side believes that the drug is not that bad and should be legalized. The other side sees the drug itself as a dangerous drug that can cause harm to the body and it should not be legal. I think enough studies have been done to prove the effects of the drug, and the only thing left to try to create less controversy would be to legalize the drug.Never ending debate This way, it could finally be determined on if the drug is acceptable or not. Speculations on whether or not the drug will help or not could go on forever, but the answer will never be known unless it is legalized. The government should try it out for a while and if it is not working like it said it would, take back the law.
I actually do not think that the legalisation of weed could induce benefits in the society like you say. My main problem is this: when we take a look back at history when alcohol was made illegal in the 1920s because of all the criminal activities and accidents it caused, crime rates actually increased because of all the smuggling and Al Capone like gangsters that controlled the illegal market for moonshine. So basically, because people had gotten so used to drinking booze, creating a ban on it didn't decrease the consumption of alcohol but rather increased crime rate. Thus, gvt couldn't really control morals of people when they were so used to alcohol being legal. So 'just legalizing weed to see how it goes' could create potential risks experienced in the 20s, such as high crime rates, if indeed gvt decides to revoke its decision because the cons outweigh its pros
ReplyDeleteI do see you point and understand where you are coming from when you talk about this. Events like that did happen in the U.S. after alcohol was ligalized but there is nothing to say that the same thing would happen for marijuana. As of right now, I myself think that the pros of legalizing marijuana outweigh the cons and that because of that we should legalize it.
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