Pro Legalization of Marijuana
In the early 1900's Americans realized that alcohol and other types of drugs popular at the time were being abused and thought it may be a good idea to criminalize their use to stop the problems that their use and abuses caused. Legislation was introduced and made into laws, outlawing alcoholic beverages on January 29th, 1920, Marijuana in 1937, cocaine, and other mind altering drugs. It took our government 13 years to admit that these laws were a total failure and reversed most of them. I think it is time to change the remaining failing prohibition laws and let the tax payers decide for themselves what to consume. I believe in the theory of legalizing freedom. I don't believe in the government protecting me from myself. For some unknown reason they decided to keep nicotine legal in the forms of cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, and snuff tobacco. Our government decided that they could create new taxes on these drugs since they may not have been aware of their dangers and habit forming tendencies. These new taxes could help pay for all the new federal government jobs that were created. Caffeine the active drug found in coffee and soft drinks was also ignored. Our government opened new federal branches of gov
We could put the gangsters out of business and make the streets safer again as we did when we relegalized alcohol. Marijuana has been outlawed in The United States since 1937. More people use it now than ever. Almost never a day goes by where you don't read in the newspaper about someone killing or injuring someone while under the influence of alcohol a much stronger and more dangerous legal drug. Would fewer youngsters drink alcohol, get in fights and crash their cars if they had a legal option to smoke some marijuana? It didn't take long before gangsters moved in selling alcohol at high prices, paid off law enforcement units, politicians, killed their competitors in the streets and in the speak easies (illegal bars). Smugglers brought alcohol in from Canada and Mexico and by ships from around the world. Mafias were created as tax payers became criminals. The profits were high as was the greed of the gangsters who risked going to jail or death to supply the country with the drugs that the people demanded. There was not much opposition at the time about the Marijuana, cocaine and other drug laws as these were not as popular. The gangsters set up shop selling these other drugs and to this day the demand has never been higher the availability so great. Consumption is at an all time high, children can buy illegal drugs easier than alcohol. They start using these drugs at much earlier ages. It is estimated that Al Capone earned sixty million dollars in one year. He was one of many who made huge profits after the changes in the laws and the increase in demand after the alcohol had been outlawed. ernments called The Federal Prohibit
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