Legarization of marijuana

cannabis sativa widely known as Marijuana is an annual plant majorly used as medicine and as a psychoactive drug. It has great physiological effects like relaxation. Increased appetite and euphoria. Though having some positivity in the human body, it posses negative effects such as anxiety, dry mouth, decreased short term memory and impaired motor skills. It has been a great debate worlwide concerning the legalization of cannabis whereby other nations allow its use and others take it as a criminal act to posses or use marijuana. Marijuana can be consumed through edibles, cannabis tea, smoking and vaporizerization. It is presumed that marijuan is non-toxic and can not cause death even when in overdose unlike tobacco and alcohol that causes high number of deaths in a year. In the traditional times, marijuana was used to relieve pain until when new medicines were discovered and marijuana termed as illegal. The United States to enact criminilization of marijuana in 1973.

Comparing marijuana and other drugs and substances used under abuse mode, it has come out clear that marijuana legalization will, to a great extent improve the living standards of people and econiomic growth. Suggestions are that marijuana be legalized and regulated under the law that regulates the use of tobacco and alcohol. In some countries, cannabis sativa forms the bulky of the cash crops dependent on, and if legalized will tremendously create jobs and shun the illicit market by provision of opportunities in the formal market. A lot of taxpayer’s money, which could be used in improving the living standards of citizens, is spent in dealing with criminal offences related to marijuana use. As well, the criminilization of marijuana leads to prejudice, corruption,vio...

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...e no harm to the society which depicts that laws are set by man and broken by man, hence there is need to understand the environment in which marijuana works in relation to other drugs in the market before either legalizing or criminilizing it.

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