Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized?

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Marijuana is a highly popular drug in many American schools. The reason for this is its easy availability. The drug is traded illegally which does not require any laws like age limit to obtain it. Drug peddlers simply want money from their customers, which makes it very dangerous. Alcohol, on the other hand is easily available in the market, but there are numerous curbs on its use. Traders and companies are regulated by the laws and curbs on alcohol make it difficult for the youth to acquire it until they reach the appropriate age. Marijuana is an illegal drug and hence there are no laws to govern. The black market knows no rules and money is the prime factor to them.

There are numerous reasons for opposing the ban on marijuana and proposing its legalization. This essay aims to provide some of the reasons why marijuana should be legalized and be made readily available in the market.

Marijuana has been available and used since centuries, in the form of a spiritual and religious drug. There is also mention of the ‘hemp’ plant, from where marijuana is obtained, in the holy religious book of the Hindus, the Vedas. (Ibid, p.248).

There are a number of places in the Vedas where the religious and medicinal use o the hemp plant has been mentioned including its therapeutic and medicinal uses. Several other sources and literatures of ancient India have stressed the utility of the hemp plant (Grierson G.A., 1894).

The earliest record of the use of the cannabis plant has been found in Chinese ancient civilizations when the plant is believed to be used for making clothes specially for mourning the dead, a custom which is practiced to date, in china. The archeological site where the plant fiber was unearthed is believed to be nearly ten thousand years old, a civilization of the Stone Age. (Chang, 1968; Kung, 1959).