They have no way of getting a proper job afterwards, and that might lead to new crimes being committed due to lack of opportunities. –
But
we got to take some factors into consideration;#1) not all of the people who have tried marijuana are still using it daily, meaningthe stats are manipulated to favour the pro side, because they are not mentioningthis...#2) if not put in jail/ punished for something that actually
is
illegal, how is thesociety gonna work? There would be people committing crimes everywhere, because they would know they could use the marijuana and getting out of the punishment.This leads to a new issue; the un-controlled production of marijuana. By not legalizing it the U.S.government loses almost 14 billion dollars in tax every year if marijuana was to be taxed thesame way as alcohol. This money could have been used to catch the people who are illegallyimporting marijuana. Also, if the growing is controlled, the government would know whatamount of THC that is in the marijuana, and they would not have to worry about too highconcentrations leading to e.g. extremely bad judgement, etc.But, even though they would be able to control it, there would still be illegal substances, and theillegal substances would be harder to find because it is legalized, so they cannot be punished for having it/using it. This will also make the detection of other drugs harder, as a lot of drug teststest for several kind of drugs, especially marijuana, since it is so common, this means you caneasily blame using marijuana if you e.g. really were doing cocaine. Even though the substancesare different, they will both appear on the same test, and the only way of finding out if it ismarijuana or not is a blood test. And this is gonna cost A LOT of money to do blood tests on allsuspects. So, the taxes and the costs to provide proper testing will probably even out.Let’s talk about the some of the controversial science behind marijuana use...Science is biased information. No matter what you do, some science will always be biased. Ascientist would not spend years researching something he/she thought to be impossible. They aretrying to prove something by researching it. This means that every little sign of evidencesupporting their thesis will be well documented, and made a bigger fuss about than if somethingdisproving the thesis was to happen. This does not go for
all
scientists, but it is very common.Another example of a knowledge problem is misinterpretations of the science. If read that“smoking marijuana gives you cancer”, I would assume it was the marijuana causing the cancer,not the smoking, which is really the truth. This is another way of portraying marijuana as a badthing. So, let me give you another example...Who here, in this room, has ever heard the saying “marijuana kills brain cells”? This was the #1argument for marijuana prohibition in the early 70’s. Ronald Reagan, the president of the UnitedStates at this time, made scientists perform an experiment involving monkeys smoking weed.The moneys, who were between 10-12 kg, were pumped full of marijuana – about 30 joints a day – for 30 days, and the result was that most of the monkeys died after 90 days. After a few weeksonly, it was revealed that the
real
experiment involved pumping at least 83 joints filled with thestrongest Colombian marijuana they could find. And since they used a machine (a pump) to dothis, the monkeys were suffocated. They didn’t die from an overdose of marijuana; they diedfrom lack of oxygen. And after their death, when they compared the brain cells of the non-users
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