For: The "for" side, I feel, will be pitiful for me. But hey, I'll try! Well if marijuana was legalized, then I think that would cut down on the trafficking, illegal actions, and hype. Let's be honest, most things lose much of their excitement when they are no longer "dangerous". It's like alcohol in foreign countries. Kids our age are able to drink alcohol in other countries without being reprimanded, so alcohol seems normal and an everyday thing. It loses any kind of excitement. Kids also would learn at an early age how to control their intake of the substance. It's experience that helps. Now if marijuana was legal, there would be no sneaking around, no shoot-ups because of the lack of substance because suddenly a drug-bust could happen. There would be safe places that people could purchase this gross stuff. So maybe by legalizing it, you are taking out a lot of the potential danger present when trying to get marijuana.
Against: I'll just start off with the fact that smoking, of any kind, is just unhealthy and gross. If we legalize marijuana, it would seem like we are encouraging people to just smoke the heck out it. It would almost seem immoral to legalize marijuana. Now by making it illegal, there does seem to be less of a chance of people getting a hold of it. Does this increase curiosity for consumers? Or does this make the more lazy of the consumers just give up and not smoke? This is hard to answer. When things are easy to get, sometimes they do become a bit more appealing. It just depends on the person. Then there is another question that arises-If we legalize marijuana, what would possibly come next? This could be a chain reaction leading to many drugs being legalized which should not be. You never know!
Now which side am I really on? I still have to decide.
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