Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Legalize It!

Have you ever questioned the law that makes marijuana illegal in Texas? Nearly 46% of the Texas population admits to smoking marijuana at one time or another in their lifetime. Individuals living in the state of Texas deserve the right to decide if they choose to use marijuana or not. I believe the government limiting our use of certain substance is violating amendment rights of the citizens which they deserve. However Texas legislature is considering legalizing medical marijuana for other purposes than pleasure, like for the uses of medicine which can help stimulate appetite, and relieve nausea in cancer patients, and many other medical healings. This will prevent a lot of unnecessary arrest for possession of marijuana, and slowly decrease the number of people in jail. This will also save the Texas government money, and not having authorities cracking down for drug bust, and participating in the “War on Drugs”. The procedure for a marijuana trail is a costly when everything is taken into account, meals, shelter, health care, attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses are all applied when putting people in jail. Another argument to make is that prohibition might not decrease the drug use in the state of Texas, if the state chooses to legalizing marijuana; it might actually surprisingly decrease the usage, because some people use it only because it is forbidden and they like the thrill of sneaking around from the police. In a conclusion I believe it will be better for our state if marijuana is legalized with limits enforced on consumption
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  1. Juaco24April 19, 2011 at 8:56 PM

    I agree on your point of view and believe that marijuana should become legal Texas. Mainly because I believe that the state is spending too much money on holding so called criminals, whose only real crime is smoking marijuana. This will make the Texas economy richer, as seen in the emerald triangle of California. 2/3 of the economy there comes from the marijuana sales and I think many people will be able to benefit from this. This will also help the war on drugs somewhat, since the government will focus on prosecuting individuals who smuggle much more dangerous drugs, such as cocaine.

    The one negative I do see to this is that a lot of teens will try to go for more of a high from drugs such as cocaine, and heroin because they do not find marijuana to do anything for them anymore. I think that you only took into account the immediate consequences of legalizing marijuana and did not look ahead into what other issues could arise from it. In the end I think that legalizing it would do more good than the harm that people think it is actually doing. People need to be more informed about weed and new test should be done to see if it is really such a detrimental drug to someone’s health.

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