It used to be legal

During the World Wars, marijuana or cannabis was legal. A multitude of product were made using cannabis, which is the plant that makes marijuana, and then during the war it was suddenly made illegal because or propaganda saying that marijuana was causing the soldiers severe problems. Now a days, through scientific research we know that this was a lie because marijuana does not cause severe problems, just makes you feel good and makes you hungry. Before and during the World Wars, over 50,000 products were made using cannabis. Some of these products are paper, oil for lamps, lubricants, rope, cloths, and a number of other products.

If we look at our current world we are running our of natural resources, so I ask the question if so many different products we use daily can be made through a plant that is made in abundance, why are we wasting our precious resources on products we could have been making with a renewable resource. If the government is going to wait till we are out of resources to remember that we can use cannabis as a alternative, then they are making a big mistake. We could be using these resources on new and better products and not products anything can be used to make them.

How it helps the government

Besides the increase in money that are flowing into the government, it would also decrease crime in our country since the drug that is causing a lot of the crime is now legal. Therefore the government wouldn't have to focus any of their time on this subject.

By legalizing marijuana the government could generate a lot of money that could help our county's economy. We are currently in a deficit of over one trillion dollars, and if the government was smart it would tax anything that could generate money to help this increasing problem. This would generate a lot of money for the government because about 100 million people in the United States smoke marijuana. That is about a third of the population of the United States. By taxing a substance that so many people use, the government could receive billions of dollars a year, and slowly decrease our deficit. Each year the government would save 14 billion dollars from enforcing the prohibition laws of marijuana, and would take in billions of dollars from the sale and taxation of marijuana.

The Munchies

In our society there are people that eat to little amounts of food. It would be smart if parent petitioned for marijuana to be legal so they could make their kids that eat to little to eat more. The munchies could help those people that are anorexic. Probably will not cure this disease but might help them. In retrospect compared to the consequences of drinking a lot, are the munchies really that bad of a side effect. Personally I do not believe so.

The munchies is a side effect of smoking marijuana. This effect does exactly as it is named, it makes you hungry. Now if making someone hungry is so bad, then anything that smells good that makes you want to eat, or looks good should be against the law. Is making someone hungry that bad a thing, I do not believe it is, if anything its a good thing since food tastes good.

College

If something like drinking, which can lead to death, is only going to bring probation or a warning, then a drug like marijuana should be punished with the same or less severity. College's and the government need to get their perspective in order and start focusing on more critical matters then punishing people for using marijuana, while people are murdering or stealing.

College is a time to experiment, and marijuana is included in this. College's are taking smoking marijuana to the extreme, by threatening expulsion. While drinking underage will bring upon light punishment like a warning or probation. This is not fair since college's are only doing this because marijuana is illegal while drinking is not. College being described as a time of freedom and experimentation is a hoax, if the college system and the government are ruining kids lives over a drug that has really no life or death effects on you. College's could do so much better then focusing a lot of their time on matters like these.