Smoking Marijuana; is Getting High with Marijuana Truthfully any Worse Than Drinking Alcohol to the Point of Intoxication? What are the Resulting Harms, and What are the Benefits If Any?
by I examine the harms and benefits of both drinking and smoking, then debate whether it is okay for the US or UK government to legalize alcohol but not marijuana. Marijuana is better than drinking since it has no physically addicting side effects and does not cause death, both of which are attributions seen frequently with alcohol.
So I conclude with this. Let’s examine this question of “Why is alcohol okay, when thousands of people are put on probation, or stuck in jail every year for DUI convictions, and their victims rendered injured, or turned into a textbook statistic of how many have died from such incidents? However, marijuana rarely claims lives, and does not alter the mind like alcohol does, especially if one is driving. If you have never smoked than you just don’t know because you have no way of knowing. And finally, marijuana is proven to have medicial purposees for those who have HIV, AIDS, Cancer, Anxiety, and Glaucoma. What is alcohol good for, other than of being an aneshetic over 100 years ago or so? It has no usefulness in society than cause death, spread disease (drunken sex..its true), and cause trouble to people’s lives. On the other hand, marijuana has many purposes than teenagers just getting stoned outside the schoolyard, not too mention that marijuana is NOT LETHAL and is NOT under any circumstance physically addicting. Did you know this? Marijuana is not addicting in any physically way; however, Alcohol is one of the only drugs that individuals can die from just going through the withdrawals of not drinking, when one has been used to the use of alcohol for quite some time. Believe that!
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Post CommentFrank
On January 21, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Look at it this way…
Alcohol is too hard for the average person to make.
Any idiot can grow weed. How can the government tax it like they do alcohol.
It has nothing to do with weed being good or bad, it has to do with taxing it.
Governor Duval Patrik
On February 26, 2009 at 5:33 pm
All the government would have to do is manufacture it themselves and then tax it; this would create more revenue for the state when individuals are going to grow it as long as its illegal. We all remember speak-easy’s and prohibition don’t we? Furthermore, if the government begins to grow and tax it, the marijuana will be safe to use, rather than getting it off the street where it could easily be laced with pesticides, crack, heroine, etc. Lastly, if the government did manufacture then no individuals would be growing marijuana anymore, atleast for distribution purposes because nobody would buy it. The state could easily offer a lower price to its citizens and easily eradicate marijuana grow operations all over the U.S. and foreign nations who bring marijuana within our borders.
Bobby
On July 5, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Yes, Frank. I am afraid your argument is quite backwards. Isn’t it? Legalizing and taxing would actually create available avenues for people to pay money to the government for peace and quite to grow their own weed, however they need to pay for the proper licenses, etc. It is win win, for the grower, government, and society (person get’s what they need without government interference, the government creates revenue to build and grow the economy, and also the government will be FIGHTING TERRORISM in a support for locally grown! Shutdown those foreign communist, oppressive, Taliban societies via an approach to legalize cannibis and shutdown contributions to hostile foreign regimes. Doesn’t this make more sense than what we have been doing?
Ashley
On February 21, 2011 at 5:06 pm
The economist a few months back compare the prohibition to the illegality of marijuana. It also concluded that to tax it and monitor it, it should be safe.
However I also heard that in the US the reasons why marijuana is illegal is because of the hemp distributors and the government not liking them.
Also because back in the olden days marijuana was associated with black people and jazz music, something that a White American government wanted none of.