Time and time again most pot smokers ask themselves why or when marijuana should be legalized. Most people haven’t thought of the effects that Marijuana can have besides the usual ones. This isn’t a cry for legalizing the sticky green but an insight on the effects of what some say is the most powerful plant on earth.
What would happen if marijuana was legalized? Would everybody become a pot head, drug dealer, or a drug lord? This legalization would inevitably add a new and powerful industry to our draining economy. Drugs are already a legalized and powerful industry, well, the pharmaceutical industry. You have a headache? Go buy some Tylenol and take a couple of doses here and there and your headache will go away. Sounds effective right? How about this: have a long day at work? Go buy some Marijuana from your local Walgreens or Rite Aid, take a couple of hits here and there and your stress will go away.
What would this create? Many problems as they would say. But, it would also create many solutions. Then again, more solutions create more problems and so on and so on. Well we deal with that kind of stuff everyday right? It is what life is all about. Now, we’re not saying go shoot your neighbor because he’s playing his music too loud. There are some things you just have to draw the line on and think about the consequences of crossing that line. What would happen if we crossed this line?
Well these are some of things (among others) that would happen if we all crossed the Marijuana line and legalized the damn plant:
We would create a powerful industry. The Marijuana Industry as opposed to the Tobacco Industry. Marijuana companies would be popping up like weeds! Along with creating an industry would be creating a workforce. Farm lands would be needed as well as the laborers needed to help grow and distribute the plant. Pharmaceutical companies would then distribute the plant to pharmacies like Rite Aid or Walgreens and these places are going to need an extra helping hand too. The needed expertise of Marijuana would then have its effects on Universities, Community Colleges, and Certificate Programs. They are going to call on the experts to help teach classes for our future pharmacists of tomorrow. This will increase enrollment which helps the local economy as well. Purchasing Marijuana and paying a proposed Marijuana Tax would be great for the economy but that’s if we can get our politicians to stop digging their hands into these tax buckets.
Socially this can create a good vibe. Smokers would be largely at peace and depart from conflict with other members of our society due to its relaxing effects. This can be an important result to the use of Marijuana as we are a society in which conflicts are always arising and ongoing. We would be eating more often and spending money on munchies is always good for the economy.
Although you may see some positive outcomes by throwing this plant into the front lines of our economy there are some consequences that we must reap. Whether or not you may think this is a gateway drug it still has some casualties. There are many people out there that may think their body is immune to the drugs that surround them because this green plant had no effect on them. Their invincibility may be the case when it comes to Marijuana but not for other illegal substances. Drugs are too powerful for the human body and mind. We were not made to for it.
This legalizing case also brings up notions of health problems like heart disease due to the high levels of cyanide. Other toxins that can cause fatal harm are ammonia and nitrogen oxides which can cause lung cancer. Who knows what the legal distribution of Marijuana will do to the already gigantic illegal drug industry. Some people may go crazy over the distribution of wealth due to this proposed change.
Socially this may be a good thing but it can also be a bad thing. Smokers may become lazy, broke, and overweight. Some may decide to drive. That’s never good. Marijuana does have the tendency to get you to relax and sometimes if addicted it may get you to relax too much. We’re human. We need to be happy and complacent with what life brings us. But that also brings back the concept of Marijuana having the power to do that all by itself. This, in the end, concludes to a fight with ourselves over which path can make our lives easier on us.
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