Реферат: The Advantages Of Being Legal Essay Research

incident or if someone involved in the incident is found only possessing

marijuana, then the emergency room admission is counted as marijuana related.

At first, the amount of people using marijuana may increase. The idea

that people like school teachers, day care providers, and bus drivers smoking

legally purchased marijuana and endangering others is something that should not

be worried about. Do these people drink alcohol before going to work or smoke

cigarettes during work? They are mostly responsible adults and if they choose to

smoke the legally purchased marijuana, they would do it responsibly.

Most recreational marijuana smokers will continue to smoke even if

marijuana is never legalized. I was forced to temporarily quit smoking because

of the system. I used to occasionally smoke until my room was searched at the

college I attended freshman year. I felt that my personal rights were violated

when every room on my hall was searched after someone set off a firework. The

search was conducted by a R.A., a person who is my age, and it was done without

my roommate or I present . Nothing was left in plain sight, in fact, all of the

paraphernalia was found in a backpack which was in a filing cabinet that was in

my closet. I felt as though I did not commit a crime, but as though I was the

victim. As former president Lincoln said, ? Prohibition goes beyond the bounds

of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation, and a

makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a

blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.?

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