legal marijuana
...critics it would be impossible to know what the outcome of increased usage would be. Another idea is regulating it similar to alcohol, in that you would have to have a license to distribute and you can only buy so much at one time. This would help to better control the market. Alcohol is a far greater risk to society than marijuana. (www.NORML.com) In the most in depth drug accident study to date, studied the blood samples of 1882 drivers killed in auto accidents. It showed that 51% of the drivers killed had alcohol in their systems, compared to the 6% that had marijuana in their blood. Also, two thirds of those marijuana drivers also had alcohol found in their systems. This shows that alcohol was the biggest problem when it came to driving accidents and deaths. Another study on the ability to drive after consuming marijuana showed that the effects on driving were “relatively small”. The study showed that with those tested marijuana actually caused the driver to be more cautious, while alcohol encourages risky behavior. Another fact is that the physical side affects of marijuana last for a much shorter time than those of alcohol. Some people believe that if marijuana was legal to buy and sell that the government would lose control over it. If they tried to limit the use there would still be an illegal market going on. They believe the use of it would increase and hurt society as a whole. It is true that it would be impossible to totally control the buying and selling of marijuana legally, but they can’t even stop minors from acquiring alcohol. It is impossible to totally control anything, but the money saved could be used towards more serious issues in society. (Miller, 104-117)There is no way the any one could even estimate would the effects on society as a whole would be. It could work out and things might go wrong, no one can even guess. Some people think that marijuana is dangerous because of the difficulty of detecting it. When pulling over a drunk driver he or she may be given a breathalyzer test to detect alcohol. With marijuana there is no quick test or real g...