reasons to legalize weed
...ivated every eight months at a height of 16 feet and there are over 50,000 non-smoking commercial uses of hemp that are economically viable and competitive. One especially interesting in this time of war is the fact that this plant can be turned into methane, methanol, and gasoline at a faction of the cost of oil and can be burned with much less harm to our environment. Sounds like killing 2 birds with one stone, or plant if you will, doesn’t it? Yet another cost of the prohibition of marijuana that the gov’t is simply denying suffering ill people of proper medication. There are only 7 people in the US who have made it through the extensive labyrinth of getting certified to receive medicinal marijuana. However this number doesn’t reflect the thousands that find comfort in it’s medicinal qualities and obtain it illegally, many times under the “off the record” suggestion of their doctors. If marijuana were legal it would immediately replace 10-20% of all pharmaceutical drugs by aiding in the treatment of asthma, glaucoma, the size of tumors, nausea relief for AIDS, cancers and migraine suffers, epilepsy, MS, arthritis, mental disorders and much more. But what are the benefits of the prohibition of marijuana? Huh, that’s a hard one....well I can tell you what the gov’t thinks the benefits are. 1) The gov’t believes to be saving the American people from a dangerous, addictive, cancer causing drug. Let’s just disregard the fact that 100,000 people die from alcohol poisoning or alcohol related deaths and 400,000 die from nicotine addiction, where as marijuana cannot cause death by overdose and is relatively nonaddictive 2) It’s fighting against a drug that causes crime. 3) It’s curtailing the use of something ...