Essay/Term paper: Legalazation of cannabis

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Sociology Essays

These are some of the reasons that prohibition is a failure. When we realize that prohibition is a failure we can move on to more and better uses of cannabis. Abraham Lincoln once said this famous quote "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause o
temperance. ...for it goes beyond the bounds of reasons In that it attempts to control a mans appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles that our government was fo
ded."
If you would recall the government trying to prohibit alcohol in the earlier part of this century. Crime soared, criminal organizations became rich. People died or were crippled by unregulated products. Millions of untold tax payers dollars were spent
the so called "Drug Wars". The results had no effect on the wars and just dissipated tax payers money.
Foreign drug cartels earning as much as the Gross National Product of some countries, only to send their illegal unregulated products to America. They tried to prohibit their drugs as well, but had the same results.
Children killing children with auto-automatic weapons. HIV spreading like a plague. The absurd waste of tax payers dollars on a prohibition that doesn"t even work. Our prisons filling up over the edge. Why? For a prohibition of cannabis.
Cannabis is one of the single most versatile important agricultural products next to the soybean. Growing cannabis helps the environment as well. Lady bugs, which we all know helps everything, provide a source of extermination for the bugs that plague
he cannabis crop. If you are running low on cash and are growing it you can sell it for a pretty penny. Of course you can"t until it gets legalized.
Medical properties of cannabis are well documented. Just think how many people would benefit if cannabis was readily available for use. Why criminalize, or restrict access to find relief from suffering. Cannabis can ease the pain and sometimes take it
ay. Why criminals for use as medicine?
Now you will hear some peoples thoughts of why cannabis should not be legalized. Many of the people that want it to stay illegal are mothers of people under the age of 18. In fact 66 percent of those mothers want it to stay illegal. Most say cannabis
smoked for fun or because of addiction. People kill for it and people kill each other for money for it. Hemp has no value towards the further education of students scientist say. Some parents say the only people who abuse the substance are the so calle
"rednecks and Skateboarders". People who use this substance, cannabis, are only hurting themselves. Most parents, 55 percent, say that cannabis or hemp will not do you or any one with you any good other than getting you into prison. They also say that i
you smoke bud, short for cannabis, as a high you are breaking the law and should be punished. If you have a medical reason for using bud you should and can get a prescription for it. Medical prescriptions are not illegal and you wont be punished for it.
"Why should we legalize something that you can smoke and get addicted to, when if you really need it for an actual reason you can get a prescription." States the anti-legalize e-mail daily news letter.
Why try to grow bud when most of the time it doesn"t even grow? It needs too much care and you usually have to tend to it all the time. Actually the bud crop will only produce half enough to even smoke much less sell. If cannabis is legalized why spen
so much on seeds and trying to grow it when only half of it will grow. You can"t grow it outside hardly because you have to use black lights to make it grow good.
Why do we have to have this battle over cannabis? Why can"t we come to an understanding over it? Why are we filling up our prisons and why are we killing each other over it? Because of a so called high? To ease the pain? All excuses. We should come to
compromise, why not make a law that states: The only persons who can legally smoke cannabis for any reason should be those individuals over the age of 18 or have a prescription. That way children won"t be smoking and getting addicted and those peoples
er 18 could do what ever they want. We could legalize it and have 10 year olds smoking it because their parents are doing it. All when15 year olds are doing it with their friends, getting hooked ,and throwing their lives in the toilet. They will eventua
y flunk out of collage and end up working in a Taco Bell.