Many people have posted arguments about legalizing marijuana, but my classmates blog "Understanding Politics...Hopefully" brought this hot topic to my attention today. Everyone's main argument with the marijuana issue is that it is a drug and it alters your perception of reality and affects your judgement. Well this all may be true, but does alcohol not do the same thing? And maybe even to a greater extent? Why is it ok for alcohol to be legal and marijuana not?
If it is acceptable for alcohol to be legal and have its own industry, where it makes billions of dollars every year, than shouldn't they be able to do the same thing with marijuana? People are going to smoke and drink no matter what the law says, the prohibition era is a perfect example of that, so its time for people to get smart about it and make some money off of it. Instead of the government spending millions of dollars fighting the use of marijuana they could be making that amount of money, and more. I am not a user of marijuana so I don't have anything personally to gain from the government legalizing it, but even i can see the profit potential of this arrangement.
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