The issue is should marijuana be legalized. My opinion is yes it should be legalized. I know when people hear the word Marijuana it brings to mind a bunch of burnt out old hippy's in a room full of smoke. But I feel differently about it I find it no worse than drinking alcohol which is pretty much pure poison and smoking cigarettes which is plant and chemicals mixed together. Also it could be taxed and produced like both alcohol and cigarettes which would give more people jobs and unlike cigarettes and alcohol the plant itself may be used to produce more goods.
             The first point is that I find having marijuana legalized is no worse than the legalization of alcohol and cigarettes. People have been smoking tobacco for centuries and they have smoked marijuana for just as long or even longer. It has been used as healing herbs and spiritual inducers for years by many ancient cultures and tribes. I know that people worry about the addiction rate of marijuana and think that it is far worse than both tobacco and alcohol put together but in fact "Marijuana addicts 9% of its users, Alcohol addicts 15% of its users and Tobacco addicts 32% of its users." (Forbes, 1) so out of the three tobacco is even worse than Marijuana. And as for tobacco and alcohol the create a physical and mental dependence where as marijuana will only leave a weak mental urge for most people. Another concern is marijuana causes deaths and can lead a person to be not in control of themselves, but than so does alcohol and tobacco. Alcohol causes the most and severe types of baby defects and when a person is drunk they can cause accidents and if to much alcohol is consumed it will lead to death. Tobacco can also lead to diseases and death. Much of the reason tobacco is so dangerous to people is because of how it is produced it is cured with many different chemicals like tar which cause lung cancer and then they use nicoti
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