Marijuana and the Arguments for Its Legalization

In the United States of America 100,000 people die each year from alcohol-related causes. Most of the causes are, drinking and driving, crashes, other accidents, falls, fires, and alcohol-related homicides and suicides. While prescription painkillers cause thousands of overdoses which leads to deaths each year. No one has ever died from a marijuana overdose in the United States or in fact from simply smoking too much marijuana. In fact, studies suggest it is impossible to die from smoking or consuming too much marijuana, But indirect deaths are possible. Marijuana should be legalized because it could be used for recreational use, medicinal purposes, taxation purposes, and would be safer than other drugs.Marijuana and the Arguments for Its Legalization

Marijuana should be legalized for recreational purposes because with marijuana legalize for recreational purposes it would lower the crime rate in the United States. Tardiff states “if marijuana was to be legalized, people would see it as boring and the crime rate would go down”. What Tardiff means by this is with marijuana legalize it would make people less interested into the drug because it would be boring to do because most people like to do acts that are illegal or “rebellious” in a way but, with the drug legalize most people won’t want to do it because it won’t be seen as rebellious therefore it would lower the crime rate. Some would say “won’t it rise the crime rates?”, but in theory it would lower the rates because with marijuana legalize less people would go to jail over drug Possession in the United States. Currently number of arrests in 2017 in the U.S. for drug law violations is 1,632,921 while number of drug arrests that were for possession were only 1,394,514 which is 85.4 percent while number of people arrested for a marijuana law violation in 2017 were only 659,700 , but number of those charged with marijuana law violations who were arrested for possession only 599,282 or 90.8 percent but, if marijuana were to become legalized the number of the arrest would go away or in total the numbers would significantly drop.