Legalization of Marijuana

I suppose this a worthy topic to write about, especially because it has been in the news so much about California wanting to do so. As I said in my last blog, people use marijuana anyway, regardless of whether it is legalized or not. For those who do it, if there is a way to get it, they will find it. The fact that marijuana is the number one cash crop in the United States is also something to behold.

That said, I believe that, solely for medicinal purposes, legalizing marijuana would be an acceptable measure. I mean, amphetamines are highly addictive, yet they are used at bedside in hospitals. Why not allow marijuana to be used to quell extensive pain as well?

Legalizing it for medicinal purposes would do relatively nothing to the overall effect of the current law. The law requires that people neither use nor possess marijuana, yet many people do, many times in fact. They are breaking the law anyway, so how would things be any different by legalizing it?

Plus, since it is the number one cash crop in the U.S., would marketing it in medicine not help the current economic crisis the nation has fallen into. Along with municipal business, agriculture is one of the staples of our economy. If marijuana were legalized for medicinal purposes, can you imagine how much more would be grown and bought, making the economy blossom in that area very nicely. I mean, as it is, it’s already being grown and bought at a high rate. Legalized, the growing and buying would be unimaginable.

Comments on this would be nice. I’d like to see what other people think. Remember, I’m talking just for medicinal purposes, not overall legalization.

Dakota