Satire Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

When it comes to wars against drug, Marijuana is known one of the biggest enemy in drug war. Kids growing up by listening to their parents that drugs is a taboo. But I found interesting is that the alcohol and tobacco, the two life threatening substance was illegal before are now legalized, why shouldn’t we legalize marijuana? In some states in United States, marijuana is legalized, some are strictly only for medical use and in some states marijuana is legal for recreational use. Normally marijuana is used to treat Seizure disorder, Crohn’s disease, muscle spasm or Nausea from cancel chemotherapy. I would like to bring out an example of a 6 years old little girl from Colorado who is benefit by legalization of marijuana in Colorado State. That little girl called Charlotte, she started having multiple Seizure since she was 3 months old and the rate of Seizure happens goes up with her age. Her parent tried every kind of medication or treatment they could find but did not improve her condition until they decided to try marijuana medication on her after the legalization of marijuana in Colorado. After receiving the marijuana medication, her Seizure only happens two three times per month and she is growing up happily just like other kids. Without the help of marijuana, she might still suffering from the frequent Seizures every day. As we can see, marijuana is not bad as we thought. Medication is not the only way we can benefit from marijuana. If all states in United States legalize and regulate marijuana, there will be very huge amount of income for government through tax. Matt Ferner(2014) noted that according to a personal finance site, NerdWallet, it forecasts about 3 billion dollars of income for government a year through taxes if all 50 states legalize marijuana today. Increasing income for government through regulating marijuana will bring lots of benefits to everyone in the country. Because every time we get into our car and travel on a public highway, we are riding on a road built and maintained by state replenished by tax money. Children who attend public school also benefit from the tax dollars collected. So as we can see, if the income of government increase by regulating marijuana, it will increase the quality of our life and also our community, our state and our country. Having a safe and peaceful community is always everyone’s wish. Marijuana related crime is one of the biggest crime that concerns everybody such as sales and purchases marijuana illegally, drug dealer gangs killing each other for benefits, kids used as drug trafficking. Marijuana have cause so must social problem in our community, the only way to solve the problem is …show more content…
I strongly disagree with the point of view because stopping marijuana to be legalized just based on preventing anyone to drive after consuming marijuana is not logical. I do admit someone under influence of marijuana is not suitable to drive because it could impair a person’s ability to judge and drive. But we could regulate the marijuana under strict rule, such as prohibit any driving after consuming marijuana. Lopez point out that Colorado and Washington State forbid anyone with five or more nanograms of active THC per milliliter of blood to drive, if not they will face a serious charge. Just like alcohol, marijuana will be regulated, sale and consume under