The arguments presented are not propaganda. The arguments anti-marijuana posters have made are all propaganda based.
Our battle is making substantial progress over the past few years. It will only make more. This is not a question of "if" marijuana will become legal, it is "when". As soon as the US government stops brainwashing children concerning marijuana, the sooner we won''t have to deal with arguments from those that know nothing of the subject at hand.
I''m sorry if this comes off as condescending, but it is frustrating to have to constantly refute the most simple, and forgive me, idiotic arguments. Every point raised against marijuana on is a complete joke, and hypocritical considering the legal state of alcohol and tobacco.
The information is out there. You can easily find incredibly solid, numerously repeated scientific data. Yet, naysayers insist that while we have appeased every question they had, we have yet to yield an answer as to the greater good. From what I can see:
* It''s estimated by a team of 500 economists, including Nobel laureate Milton Friedman who advised Nixon and Reagan, that taxing marijuana like alcohol and cigarettes could bring in $6.2 billion annually.
* Job creation: farming, packaging, distribution, and of course, marketing--it''s going to be a crowded playing field.
* According to those 500 economists, in an open letter to ''the President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislatures'', legalizing marijuana would save $7.7 billion in state and federal spending a year.
* The criminals who sell drugs can be caught for not paying their taxes. (It''s how they finally nabbed Al Capone).
* Legalizing it would create government jobs in the F.D.A. to ensure quality.
* According to a report by ABC News two years ago, marijuana is a cash crop in the U.S. valued at $35.8 billion annually compared to $23.3 billion for corn and $7.5 billion for wheat. ( ABC News) The government and private business might as well cash-in.
* If you legalize it, there''s a chance it won''t be cool anymore. The Netherlands, where small amounts of marijuana are sold in coffee shops, have a lower rate of drug use for every kind of drug compared to the U.S.
At this point, if you can not accept what you were taught about this drug is wrong, and understand why it is going to become legal, there is nothing else we can do for you.
I''m sorry, but the anti-marijuana point of view is wrong, and hypocritical. I used to have the same point of view, but once you do any real research, and actually experience the drug, there is no denying it should be legal.
We are not on the losing side. For the first time in years, I can absolutely say this battle is coming to an end. Give it ten years, and marijuana will be legal for medicinal purposes in almost every state, and decriminalized in a majority of them.
If this doesn''t convince you, it is because you fail to change, and there is nothing more we can do. Hope this helped.
