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The Legalization Of Marijuana

The Legalization of Marijuana

For my assignment I chose to speak for the legalization of the controlled substance marijuana. I will address the monetary strain it causes by keeping it illegal, marijuana vs. alcohol, briefly quoting the ‘Harm Principle', and debunking the ‘gateway drug' argument. By covering these four points, I hope to bring the awareness to my audience that it would make sense financially, health-wise, and constitutionally for our society to make cannabis legal.
First things first, let's address the obscene amount of money put towards arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of marijuana users, and how it could be put to better use. In 2002, 45.3 percent of the total arrests for drug abuse were for marijuana, a figure that comes to 697,082 people. In June of 1994, the RAND Corporation released a study that found we get seven times more value for our tax money by drug treatment programs than by the incarceration of drug addicts. So what does that show? A......


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