The legali zation of marijuana is, and has been a heavil y disp uted issue for d ecades. On one h and, mari juana could lead t o a therapeutic b reakthrough , or if nothing else give r elief to malignancy and AIDS patie nts. On the other hand, authorizing a drug could uncover it to excessively expansive an audie nce. As a medication, mari juana has never prove n to be anyplace n ear as destructive as ci garettes or alco hol. Every year in the Unit ed States, 400,000 people di e from tobacco, 50,000 from alcohol, and fr om mariju ana, zero. Regardle ss of what side one may ta ke to this argumen t, there are some cau ses to this pot d ebate that everybody ought to kn ow. Weed was not always illicit, and the explanations for the history …show more content…
These strategies are still exceptionally significant to current times. In 1986, Reagan 's then-tranquilize counsel, Carlton Turner, gave a meeting with Newsweek magazine about mari juana use in the United States. He said that while going to a medication treatment focus, he fo und that 40% of the patients had occupied with gay person acts. (Gerber) The front of Newsweek th at week read "REAGAN AIDE: POT CAN MAKE YOU GAY." This is by a long shot the most ridiculou s case made by any organization as to the impacts of marijuana. On the off-chance that this announcement were to be ma de by an individual from the Bush organization today, there would be gay rights nonconformists enra ged by it, and that part would unquestionably venture down from his position. The general population did not n ecessarily acknowledge that announcement as actuality, but rather making a relationship between homosexuality and pot use probably intensified the drug's picture in a few individuals' psyches. The compelling sta nce that the accompanying organizations took with respect to marijuana demonstrates that these slants were not …show more content…
was the following president of the United States. His running mate, Dan Quayle, was by hi s side, supporting his longing to "set out to wreck" the nation's opiates domain and to en sure that pot would not be lawful while they were in office. (Cong. Quarterly) Howe ver, in 1977, only twelve years before running with Bush, Quayle was recorded as sa ying "Congress ought to without a doubt consider decriminalizing ownership of marijuana… We sh ould focus on arranging the attackers and robbers who are a threat to society." (Helmke) Bill C linton, the following president, kept utilizing a really brutal approach on ma rijuana. He dispatched another against medication crusade in 1995, and declined to let new patients to request marijuana to mitigate their agony. (Berger) In December of 1993, the Surgeon General, Joycelyn El ders proposed that if weed somehow happened to be legitimized, the wrongdoing rate could go down. S he advised that more research would need to be done, however was one of the first authorities to h int at a more open view on medications. Clinton unequivocally contradicted her announcements, and in the wake of permitting her a cha nce to withdraw her announcements, he terminated her in December of 1994.