legalization of marijuana

LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA


Marijuana is illegal for too many of the stupid reasons that make up society. I chose to do my project on the legalization of marijuana because it is a law with corrupt roots and it needs to be changed. A big reason why marijuana is illegal in Canada is because of the rail road industry and high politicians who were more interested in money than they were on being efficient and environmentally friendly. Marijuana should also be legal because it has great pain killing powers and its effective in treating chronic pain, nausea and aids related weight loss. The last reason why it should be legal is because a lot of people smoke it and if the government tried thinking on ways to pay their high debts they could legalize it and sell it like they sell cigarettes and make billions of dollars on taxes instead of cutting school budgets and hospital budgets.

Hemp is the male marijuana plant and the content of THC in hemp is of 0%. Before the drug was common the hemp plant was used for industrial purposes in a small scale. The production of hemp products was still a fairly new process when the plant became illegal and people didn’t know all the wonderful uses hemp had. You could make just about anything you could make out of trees and that was a threat to the forest industry and it was also a threat to the railroad industry because the forest industry was the rail road industries number one customer and if hemp took over trees then the railroad industry would loose a lot of money. The railroad management lobbied politicians to make marijuana illegal, politicians were very eager to make it illegal but they couldn’t with out the support of the public. They made a movie that portrayed m...