Marijuana: A Controversial Argument
I think marijuana is and will always be a controversial argument. In my opinion marijuana should only be legalized for medical purposes, not for recreational use. As a civilized society we should be thinking about preventing and staying away from drugs that can harm us as individuals and society. It is proven that medical marijuana can be an option to treating tumors and cancers. Also, it is scientifically confirmed that marijuana has anti-cancer properties that helps deliberate the spread of cancer in the human body. Research and data shows that recreational marijuana use can leads to other drugs. Marijuana is mainly the basis upon which most adolescents’ begin the experimentation of drugs. In my opinion if marijuana is legalized, it would remove a big amount of money in funding for law enforcement, think about it, what police agency does not have a narcotics unit in which most of its drug busts consist of marijuana. If marijuana is legalized law enforcements will end up losing officers because they will not have money to pay for their services. Now days, police departments all over the nation have become reliant on federal drug war grants and monies to finance their budget. I think that students like us that are in the criminal justice field need for marijuana to stay illegal. In many of the jobs or most of the employers that are seeking for criminal justice majors demand for us to fight in the war on drugs. In the prison world, many of