I'm apprehensive in going off on all of the reasons why marijuana should be legalized. To be honest...from a casual users point of view, things aren't all that bad right now. It is fairly easy to find safe and clean marijuana almost anywhere in Canada these days. Obviously skeptics will say there is nothing safe or clean about it but when I say that I mean it is not laced with a more harmful drug.
Numerous studies have been done by differing sides and it seems at this point in time that it is pointless and naive to seek out the truth about it's effects and choose one side over the other. Basically, what it all comes down to is personal experience. The fact that no one has ever died from an "overdose" of Marijuana, yet many, many people have died from alcohol poisoning speaks for itself. I'm not saying alcohol should be made illegal (for one it would probably result in nation-wide anarchy) but I think things need to be put into perspective.
Marijuana is not LSD, nor is it cocaine or heroine etc etc. The fact that it is labeled as a "drug" and "drugs are bad" immediately taints it in the views of the ignorant. Marijuana is a plant that is smoked. It is not a powder that is extracted and snorted or a chemical made in a lab. It is a plant. Comparing it to tobacco is at least sensical, though even those similarities are debatable.
Marijuana should be legalized and that's the way it is. I don't know how or why it was ever made illegal but it makes no sense whatsoever. Like I hinted at earlier, I'm afraid of how it would be handled by the government if it were to be legalized, but the reasons for it being illegal will always be a mystery to me.
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