Just the basics

Legalizing marijuana is a topic that is sweeping the nation. Currently, marijuana is illegal in the continental US and a whole slew of problems have arisen in the country; there are increased numbers of people in prison, drug dealers dominance in the market of pot, and millions of US dollars are going across the border due to drug trafficking. There are many benefits that would come from the legalization of pot and I feel as though it is my civic responsibility to inform the world wide web of those benefits. An analogy I like to use when describing America’s relationship with “Mary Jane” is that she is like the United States’ insane girlfriend. He doesn’t trust her whatsoever so he tries to suppress her, but she just messes everything up and goes crazy. Mary Jane mutilates America’s relationships with other countries and the more he tries to keep her on a tight leash, the more she acts out. If America legalized pot the terrible repercussions of the drug would be substantially downsized. There would be less drug trafficking across the Mexican-American borders, drug dealers would not be making BANK, and there would be significantly less people in prison for possession of pot. Those people can be at home making money, caring for their families, and most importantly, PAYING TAXES. Let’s face it, America is in a terrible economic state and although the debt seems impossibly hard to pay off, we should try to gain revenue from making marijuana legal and taxing it “even though it would hardly make a dent in our national debt” (that’s me quoting the naysayers of the world).  Not only is making marijuana illegal not benefitting the United States, but it is also against the principles of the wise found fathers of this country. Abe Lincoln once said, "prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." California has a head start and in pushing for legislature to legalize marijuana but the rest of the country is following in its footsteps. One of the main reasons people are against marijuana is because they are uniformed about the drug. There is a stigma placed on people who smoke pot; they are associated with laziness and this negative portrayal makes the general public frown upon the subject of marijuana legalization. On my honor, I promise to help the ignorant in this country learn what smoking pot really does to the human body and how the legalization of it can help our country.