Essay/Term paper: Legalize marijuana

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I, for one, believe that Marijuana should be legalized. I have several
reasons for this, the main
one is that it would almost completely eliminate the crime and other
problems associated with
the drug. We would need fewer police officers looking for pot, we could
concentrate drug
education in schools on the more grievously damaging drugs (heroin,
cocaine, LSD).

The only long term effects marijuana has on a person are the same as with
cigarettes. No one
would dare prohibit the sale and possession of those, and pot isn't
treated with an array of
chemicals. It's just picked, dried, and smoked. Marijuana has similar
short term effects as
those of beer, but more relaxing. Marijuana tends to mellow a person,
while alcohol might
make someone violent. Plus alcohol contrivutes to brain and liver
damage.

I can not say that I completely advocate the recreational uses of
marijuana, but it nothing else
there are definitely medicinal uses such as the treatment of glaucoma.
It also tends to increas
the appatites of terminaly ill AIDS patients who otherwise wouldn't have
the desire to eat.

I think the repercussions of legalizing pot would be almost completely
beneficial to society as
a whole. The beneficial effects outweigh the adverse. This subject
should be seriously
investigated by our government.