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As we all know the government has some sort of control over the people living in the United States and play a role in our every day lives. They give us rules to live by even though we are guaranteed our freedom in the Declaration of Independence. These rules we are expected to live by are said to be for our own good and supposedly keep the citizens in order. I've come to see that some rules make no logical sense such as the prohibition of marijuana. Marijuana was outlawed in 1937 as a repressive measure against Mexican workers who crossed the border seeking jobs during the Depression. The specific reason given for the outlawing of the hemp plant was its supposed violent "affection the degenerate races."

Marijuana has well-organized supporters who campaign for its legalization and promote its use through books, magazines, and popular music. They regard marijuana as not only a recreational drug but also a form of herbal medicine and a product with industrial applications. Marijuana's opponents are equally passionate and far better organized. They consider marijuana a dangerous drug-one that harms the users mental, physical, and spiritual well being, promotes irresponsible sexual behavior, and encourages disrespect for

traditional values. Many famous and credible people such as Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein have found the holes in prohibition laws and pointed out the disadvantages of this type of government. This issue has been long debated for reasons I don't understand and the government of the United States needs to see that prohibiting the drug contradicts and violates our rights, influences crime, and does more harm than good.

It seems like the government will tax anything they can get their hands on these days. If marijuana was legalized, it would be just one more "thing" for the government to make money from. The tax payers wouldn't mind either because it would still be cheaper to buy taxed pot than from pot on the street. So instead of making money off of marijuana the government continues to suppress it and still spends a portion of their money to keep it illegal. That money could be going to better use such as education.

Cottonmouth Kings who both somehow find a way to incorporate the drug into every song they make. With the government allowing these things to be viewed and listened to by the general public it arouses the question of: do they really care?

The war on drugs causes crime to skyrocket. In essence if drugs are outlawed, the only way they can be manufactured and sold is by criminals. In other words, criminals are handed a lucrative monopoly by laws prohibiting drugs. How much control can the government have over the criminal market? The answer is none; criminal markets can only be suppressed, and not very efficiently at that. The result is a vicious cycle: prices are kept high by illegality, this guarantees high profits and a steady supply of low level workers in the drug market. A steady stream of arrests does little more than provide work for criminal justice and corrections workers and divert precious tax dollars away from education. Poorly educated, inner city youth view the arrest as an employment opportunity, continuing the cycle. Meanwhile, their customers are forced to steal to be able to afford the drugs to which they have become addicted. At the higher level of wholesaler and importer, drug deals are very dangerous because mundane business issues of delivery, payment, quality and competition become a criminal market in which issues are only to be settled by violence.

You can see how beneficial it would be to the government if marijuana was legalized. It is only right to not deny us of this wonderful plant that never meant any harm. An estimated one third of the population above the age of eleven have smoked marijuana at least once and about three million smoke it on a daily basis. Marijuana is being looked at by the people as more and more recreational every day and even the media discretely influences the use of it. There have been movies made such as "Half Baked" and "Dazed and Confused" that are based on the use of marijuana and show how normal people use the drug every day without any probl

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Category: Politics