Marijuana should be legal. The government is wasting money trying to keep weed off the streets when it should be reaping the benefits of the plant's many characteristics. If the plant were legalized it would be far less dangerous than most of us think. The profits would be higher than tobacco and the health risks would be fewer. Criminals would be less, and the world would be a happier place.
To understand why marijuana gets such bad press it must be known why it became illegal in the first place. Other drugs, like opium and cocaine were made illegal in order to prevent immigrants who were familiar with the drugs from obtaining an unfair advantage in the work force. Opium was banned because the Chinese immigrants used it to get through boring repetitive tasks. It dulls the senses and induced a trance like state that allowed the Chinese workers to work longer and harder than their sober coworkers. This was an amazing advantage in the industrial revolution when minimum wage had not......
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