The Gateway Drug True or False

Marijuana is referred to as the gateway drug. That is true because it is illegal and it is the easiest drug to get your hand on. You don't need an id all you need to have is a friend, and then your bound to have the possibility of buying and using marijuana. The fact that marijuana is illegal makes it appealing for kids to try it. It might be a way to rebel against society or to rebel against their parents by doing something wrong. Either way it is an attempt by the kids that use marijuana to gain attention and rebel.

The reason marijuana is a gateway drug isn't because of the affects of it, it is because of the contact you have with the dealer. The dealer will pressure the buyer to try this or we received an interesting shipment today. This pressure by the dealer is the reason that weed is a gateway drug. If weed was legal and you put a age limit on it, marijuana wouldn't be a gateway drug anymore. It would be like alcohol, where underage kids try to get their hands on it, but this time those kids won't start messing around with other drugs.

If the Government makes marijuana legal, that would greatly decrease the ammount of drug addicts in the United States. If that happens then there would be a decrease in the homeless because those drug addicts wouldn't spend all there money on hard drugs that create a strong addiction. I am not saying that it is a definate that legalizing marijuana will stop the use of other drugs, I am saying that it will decrease a lot. If the homeless decrease our society might be able to come together and be stronger then before.

I believe that Marijuana should be legalized, because in today's world a majority of people smoke it already. There is no point for something to be illegal that everyone can already obtain and use. For that reason marijuana should be legal. Since everyone does is and it is illegal, therefore the jails have started to become over populated because of all the arrests due to use or possession of marijuana. Besides not being lethal to you, marijuana helps dull the pain for those who have terminal illness, so besides just smoking it for no reason, it has medical capabilities. If you think about it, the government could benefit from legalizing weed by taxing it, then there would be a increase of money in the government.

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