Marijuana and Education In today’s economy, it’s very important to do the things necessary in order to get a degree and open up greater opportunities. Going to college and pursuing what one wants to become creates a goal that every student should try to accomplish. Due to its harmful nature, marijuana should not be legalized because it can cause damage to the brain. Legalizing marijuana would only bring more problems to our already fragile youth.
The world before education, some might wonder what that might have been like? In the early stages of education, and anonymous writer said on wikipedia.org, “Some forms of traditional knowledge were expressed through stories, legends, folklore, rituals, and songs, without the need for a writing system”(“Right to education”). These people learned through speech and visuals without the resources to excel and proceed into higher levels of education. From this, the young were not expected to advance into a higher degree of study. Once writing became available, these stories, legends, folklore, etc. were more easily passed along to future generations. This helpful finding made the stories more accurate and believable. Current students now have an advantage because of the resources that help attain an outstanding education. Some of the resources that show up in the today’s youthful generation that helps them to succeed include libraries, books, and computers. Just these three things can improve student learning because they provide so much more information. Other resources include student to teacher interaction, scholarships, and counselors to help with scheduling and getting enough credits to graduate. The opportunities are limitless, it just takes putting the time into finding what needs to be done. Why would a student not take this advantage? After researching the reasons for dropouts, the website buzzfeed.com