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The Advantages of Being Legal

Matt Streett English 102~D

There are many arguments on the question of whether or not to legalize

marijuana. The benefits of legalizing marijuana include its medicinal value and

its many uses to produce commercial products like paper, rope, oil, textiles,

and canvas. Another good reason to legalize marijuana is that hundreds of

thousands of non-violent drug offenders are overpopulating prisons, costing

taxpayers millions of dollars. Legalization would also put marijuana dealers

out of business and it would bring revenue to the government like alcohol and

tobacco does. Some opposition to legalizing marijuana is that traffic

fatalities would increase, and that more people like school teachers and bus

drivers would be smoking legally purchased marijuana. They also believe that

more young people would smoke more marijuana.

Marijuana is medicine and has been used as medicine for thousands of

years to treat a wide variety of ailments. It is one of the safest

therapeutically active substances known. Marijuana is often useful in the

treatment of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and chronic

pain. For cancer patients, marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting, and loss

of appetite caused by chemotherapy treatment. It does the same for people with

AIDS. By reducing intraocular pressure, marijuana helps slow or halt the

gradual increasing eye pressure suffered by glaucoma patients. Marijuana reduces

the muscle pain and spastically caused by multiple sclerosis. It also helps some

patients control their bladders. With some epileptic patients, marijuana

prevents seizures. Marijuana is also a very effective pain reliever.

Hemp, a plant mainly grown for its use as a fiber source, is from the

same plant that produces marijuana. It is different because industrial hemp is

grown with minute amounts of delta-9 and tetrahydrocannibinol, abbreviated as

THC, which is the element in marijuana that gives the ?high sensation’.

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