Legalizing Marijuana Argumentative Analysis

Legalizing marijuana is a trend currently happening in America, but still tends to be a very controversial topic. Since November 2012, when the people of Colorado voted to legalize marijuana, 30 states and District of Columbia have created some of form of law broadly legalizes or decriminalizes marijuana. Not only does a majority of the United States believe that marijuana should be regulated like tobacco and alcohol but the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) also agrees. The benefits of legalizing marijuana would not only include helping our economy, but it is also a safer alternative than people buying marijuana off the streets and as time goes on professionals find more ways that marijuana can be useful in the medical field. Marijuana can be sold …show more content…
Not to mention, the Centers for Disease Control states that “Every day, 28 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This is one death every 51 minutes. ” Since 1933, people have been able to legally purchase alcohol. In 2013, there were 991 people killed in car accidents, and 39% of those crashes were alcohol related. In addition, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has statistics showing that there are 15.1 million adults ages 18 and older that have (or have had) Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), and an estimated 623,000 adolescents from the ages of 12-17 that have AUD. If we have been letting such harmful products get regulated throughout the country, why would we not regulate something that has a great amount of …show more content…
Over 16 million people are currently living with a disease caused by smoking, smoking tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death with almost 6 million deaths per year. Tobacco also costs America billions each year, medical care alone costs $170 billion a year. Marijuana is quite useful in the medical field, just a few of the uses include; chronic pain which is the most common reason people are prescribed it, can also helps with muscle spasms, can be used to help prevent or treat glaucoma because marijuana decreases pressure inside the eye, CBD which a major compound that is found in marijuana can help people with epilepsy, and if used in low doses it can help with anxiety and stress, and migraines. Marijuana has been said to work better than most drugs that doctors prescribe to people. Doctors that cannot prescribe marijuana have to prescribe multiple painkillers and other medications to help with easing pain. On the other hand, doctors that can only have to prescribe the marijuana as it makes a remarkable

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