Should there be a prohibition of marijuana or should it be legalized in more states?
The legalization of marijuana, also known as cannabis, is topic of heated debate. While traditionally it has been condemned with the majority of many nations prohibiting its use, today the idea of legalization is seen in a very different light. Did you know that Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Norway, Jamaica, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, and the United States of America (Washington and Colorado) have legally been possessing Marijuana for medical use that is sold in the Global Market?
Even in some states of India, growing pot has been legalised for industrial purposes. Himachal Pradesh is the most potent weed growing location in the world.
It is their cash crop and it’s worshiped there. “WHO takes most of this weed from the farmers themselves, We keep only some of it for our nation” quoted a weed farmer in Malana, Himachal in 2012.
It may be the end of a lot of wars cause the sativa plant Grows in abundance on its own and is a source of cloth as well as a good organic substitute for plastic.
Just because of its defamation, it was not used post the second world war. Bob Marley’s revolution was brought down! It became a reason to traumatize the
feeble minded corporation mongers.
Employees on weed is the last thing they wanted.
Yes, for that matter, legalizing this particular so called drug may bring some positives but then again, there are negative prices to pay.
The public health, safety and productivity implications of marijuana use are amply documented. The health benefits of marijuana include the regulation of epileptic seizures and some of the chemicals in it stop cancer from spreading. THC found in marijuana slows the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, it eases the pain of multiple sclerosis, and can be used to treat glaucoma. There’s scientific proof to also take it off the drug list as it does not make you addicted to it as well as has no withdrawal symptoms. It may have occurred to all of you that prohibition of marijuana is in a way weighed against the loss of personal freedom.
To let you know, this too has been one of the agreements under legalization of marijuana. This policy can actually increase market’s transparency, don’t you think? Money transfer will flow from the wrong hands to the right one.
If you apply logic here, it will indeed decrease illegal smugglers’ revenue.
Take Netherlands for that matter – there are considerable lower crime and social problems even with legal selling and purchasing of marijuana.
Not that everyone isn’t entitled to their own opinion, but it’s only fair to look at two sides of the argument. As it is known to all of us, marijuana can be a gateway to harder substances. Studies also suggest that the vessels in the brain of a marijuana smoker restrict blood flow, and continue to do so even after a month of abstinence. Marijuana use can cause impairment of short-term memory, attention, motor skills, reaction time, and the organization and integration of complex information.
For those who have not read on Colorado’s legalization of marijuana,
here are a few facts!
In November 2000, Colorado voters approved Initiative 20, which legalized marijuana for medical purposes and allowed for the licensing of medical marijuana dispensaries, cultivation operations and manufacturing of marijuana edibles for medical purposes.
The effects of this legalization benefited in areas of crime rates, retail sales, decrease in traffic fatalities, an increase in tax revenue and economic output from retail marijuana sales, and an increase in jobs.
To add on to that, data from the Colorado Court system shows marijuana possession arrests have dropped 84% since 2010.
Thus, it is safe to say that even if production, use and sale of cannabis is banned in most places, the amount of support for legalization has increased overtime. Many current system of marijuana prohibition are ineffective. Laws prohibiting its use do not prevent people from using and in many countries, too many people end up with criminal records for possessing small amounts of the drug. Arresting and prosecuting these offenses is expensive for our criminal justice system. It traps too many in the criminal justice system for minor, non-violent offenses.
At the same time, the proceeds from the illegal drug trade support organized crime and greater threats to public safety, like human trafficking and hard drugs.
To conclude, it is indisputably vivid that there are various arguments for and against the legalization of marijuana.
What’s your opinion? Tell us in the comments.
