Why Tupac is Still Alive
You are driving back from your chemo treatment at the hospital, exhausted from the physical strain on your body. You are tired and speeding home in order to go to sleep. You pass a cop and he decides to pull you over. As the cop approaches your window and asks for your license and registration you begin to open the glove box. As you open your glove box you forget that you had put your medication in it. Soon thereafter, you are handcuffed in the back of a cop car on your way to jail. The cop doesn't understand that the marijuana in your glove box was for medicinal purposes even though you look withered and you have no hair. Marijuana has an active ingredient of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) that helps to alleviate pain of terminally ill people. Some states, such as California, have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes, but the federal government hasn't therefore marijuana is still illegal. This argument is more of a moral debate on the values of Americans, but as of right now the pros outweigh the cons. The American government should legalize the use of marijuana. First, the legalization of marijuana would help terminally ill patients with illnesses such as AIDS. People who suffer form AIDS must take hi
gh doses of highly toxic anti-viral drugs such as AZT. AZT can produce severe nausea and vomiting, as well as other gastrointestinal problems. These side effects may cause an AIDS patient to become bulimic and starve to death. Smoking marijuana helps these patients cope with the severe side effects of AZT. Since these patients can't legally obtain marijuana, they go to the streets, forcing them to illegally obtain this drug to help alleviate the pain caused by AZT. By having these patients go to the streets to obtain marijuana, they are not only putting their lives in danger, but they are also supporting drug dealers. Not only would legalizing marijuana help the terminally ill, but it would also help to decrease the number of people in jails, which in the end saves us, the taxpayers, money. In 1999 there were 704,812 arrests related to marijuana. Out of those arrested, 88 percent were for mere possession. Possession means possessing less than 1 ounce of marijuana, which is for recreational use. We are putting non-violent people in jail for victim less crimes. Since our prisons are so overcrowded we are releasing murders, robbers, and rapists early to make room for criminals of victimless crimes. Currently there are about 37,000 people in jails on some sort of marijuana charge. It costs $20,000 a year to house each one of these criminals of victimless crime. We, the taxpayers are paying for this. Why should our tax dollars go to something so petty as paying for an inmate to
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