Marijuana Legalization

For the last years a lot of countries had debated about the convenience of the marijuana’s legalization, the last place to decide was California, US, where people voted NO, but in countries like Netherland people said YES. This controversial matter has divided people in two groups, one of them says that marijuana’s legalization is a “crazy” idea because they think it could cause more corruption; and, the security will decrease with the approval; however, the other group thinks this approval could be the best resolution to avoid the abused use of this drug, decrease narcotrafic business, and it provides better treatments in the medical area; therefore, the marijuana’s legalization has more benefits than disadvantages.

Some people say that narcotrafic will be similar whether the marijuana will be legalized or not, they explain that the providers will be the same, what tells us that narcotrafic will be always present; however, they are wrong because if marijuana is legalized governments have to regulate this activity, they must control the marijuana’s distribution around the country, so people will not want to buy illegal marijuana if they can buy it in the legal way; it could cause prices on illegal marijuana decrease and this activity will left to be rentable for narcotrafic. This model was implemented in Netherland since many years and marijuana’s narcotrafic disappears in this country (Ministerie VWS).

The marijuana has become very successful in the medicine field because of its therapeutic advantages above other drugs. It is actually one of least toxic drugs available, which can safely be combined with any mediation and has a wide range of application healing. Following a referendum in California on November 8, 1996, proposition 215 was adopted authorizing physicians to prescribe marijuana, as well as nurses, responsible for a number of patients, to cultivate this plant by strict therapeutic purposes only. It’s into a force at the federal level is pending approval by the U.S. Congress, according to the Article: “Usos medicinales del Cannabis”. People that denied the legalization of this healing drug, are “running over” all the people with diseases such as: Glaucoma, Asthma, Epilepsy, anorexia, depression and different types of synchronous pain; because all of them use this drug for healing purposes such as: pressure overrides, preventing nausea, stimulation of appetite, it helps invigorates the patient, as a relaxant, plus, for the mitigation of Childbirth, menstruation and chemotherapy pain.

In “Marijuana’s legalization issue”, an important benefit for modern cultures and societies, it’s the huge amounts of dollars that governments invest every year to avoid the consume and also the distribution and business around marijuana, after the possibility to the legalization, for sure the governments will save these resources, so they can invest in social problematic and increase the quality of social life style. As a result, they also can implement to avoid the temptation to look for the prohibit customs that teenagers and childhood usually use to practice nowadays, this temptation to practice and try what all society hide for them, what is bad, what they want to know and their parents avoid to them; without any doubt with the legalization the “taboo” about the looking for the prohibit things is solved, and the marijuana will appear like something normal like cigarettes and a bottle of alcohol; of course they are all vicious, that are never recommended.

Finally, it’s known that drugs are not good whichever the kind could be, bus also we all have to accept that marijuana is now part of our society, accept that no matter if the person who smokes marijuana is 15, 20, 25 or 35 years old, everybody is susceptible to get the vicious and be consumed by the marijuana; that’s why its legalization is necessary and should be done as soon as possible because it’s not just the best way to combat the marijuana, maybe it’s the only one way to avoid it!


Work cited

Tweede Kamer, Ministerie VWS, “El mantenimiento de la Ley del Opio / El cultivo de marihuana holandesa”, 1995, taken the 11-24-2010 from http://www.drugtext.org/library/reports/wvc/drugnota/4/s56.htm

Joe Messerli, Balanced Politics, “Should marijuana be legalized under any circumstances?”, 4-20-2010 taken the 11-25-2010 from http://www.balancedpolitics.org/marijuana_legalization.htm