Should Marijuana Be Made Legal?

Question by SmarterThanYou: Should Marijuana Be Made Legal?
The drug dealing profession is looked at by many in society as seedy, unethical, and morally wrong. Television has painted the drug dealer as a bad guy for decades now, But honestly drug dealers do what every businessman in America does: They meet demand with supply. Drug dealers are entrepreneurs in a risky investment because they deal in the black market. Our laws consider what they do illegal. The fact these drugs are illegal causes a scarcity in supply, driving up demand. This makes the profession that much more lucrative. Because the risk involved is raised to a fevered pitch low level offenders without the cash to buy off cops or beat court cases with high priced lawyers are locked up in jail. The remaining few become extremely rich.

Fact is that for a small fee drug dealers give us the ability to escape our daily lives. Escape is the simple commodity they offer. The drug user seeks escape the same way as the teen who submerges himself into a video game seeks escape through a “virtual reality”. The virtual reality is escape just like the altered state you get from a drug is escape. But all escape is not equal under our laws. Our society looks at the drug dealer like some animal. A scourge to be lamented by so called civilized society. We freedom loving Americans watch as our right to self medicate is taken from us under the guise of moral righteousness. We sit back as many poor people are thrown in jail with unjustifiable harsh crack cocaine laws. It is now the American way when poor people are unjustly packed into prisons for daring to participate in fare trade and support themselves in a hostile economical an political climate through drug sales.

We have been feed propaganda about “daring to not do drugs” but all around us drugs are being used. Alcohol, prescription medication, cigarettes. We sit back as innocent people are locked up for smoking marijuana but the drunk driver is given a slap on the wrist. We sit back as crack dealers are locked up for years but corporations will sell us codeine and morphine in pill form and Dr.’s will over prescribe medications to there more affluent patients and get them addicted legally. We stereotype whole sections of the population, namely the black population and target them for intense drug warfare. And lock up addicts to the point where there is no more room for real criminals such as: child molesters, rapists and murders.

We cant trust our government to do whats right because they simple lie too much. We cant trust our media because they lack journalistic integrity and fail to look at the science of things often contributing to the ignorance of public perception by publishing works for private political agendas and not the public good.

We shouldn’t be told a contradictory story about how marijuana is bad for us but cigarettes, which kills millions apon millions with the various cancers associated with it, is completely legal which implicitly tells us that it is okay to smoke. Laws are in place to protect the population not steal away it’s freedoms and diminish true democracy. We cannot trust a government that outlaws marijuana, the drug of the peace loving native American, the war protesting hippie and the faithful Rastafarian.

Best answer:

Answer by Chuy
LEGAL! LEGAL! LEGAL!

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