Legalization of Marijuana While legalizing marijuana is politically risky, by that the government has even looked into this issue and they still believe it shouldn’t be legalized. Many to manage pain, so it should be legalized use it. Patients whose backs are broken, and those who experience pain every day, from certain injuries, feel much better after using it. Medicines prescribed by doctors, are sometimes expensive, and at times they don’t help the patients. When a patient is on medical marijuana, it alleviates pain and it makes them feel at ease. According to the Los Angeles Times, a Dr. Donald Abrams claims that when patients are going through chemotherapy, they tend to lose appetite. He says when they use marijuana it alleviates pain and creates an appetite. People tend to argue that marijuana doesn’t create an appetite, but it has been proven by medicalqestions.com. They say that molecules from marijuana bind with receptors from the brain to activate the hunger response. Marijuana should be legalized because there isn’t any superior incentive why it shouldn’t be legalized. Everyone has a right to do what he or she wants if it doesn’t hurt anyone, in other words freedom. If one can freely smoke cigarettes, why can’t marijuana users enjoy that too? Cigarette smokers or other non smokers might argue that, because it’s a drug marijuana smokers are not supposed to enjoy smoking freely, but cigarettes are also a drug. Has anyone ever considered that? People ought to have the right to make choices for themselves after all it’s a free world. Marijuana is less dangerous than the legalized drugs, which are tobacco and alcohol. Tobacco does far more harm than marijuana itself. For example, when smoking cigarettes it’s not only nicotine, which is in them. There are a lot more bad things in cigarettes than in marijuana. There is ammonia, acetone, benzene and carbon monoxide. There has never been a reported death caused by an overdose of marijuana, but there are countless ones reported of alcohol overdose. The government needs to think more when it comes to marijuana, that it’s just an herb, which is used for medicinal and sometimes religious purposes. If something as dangerous as alcohol is legal, why can’t a less lethal drug be legal? According to the information on pluginid.com, the author claims that cigarettes are good for one’s health, and cigarettes relax people and calm them down. In calming people down, cigarettes weakens the heart, marijuana has its own known side effects, which are sleepiness, anxiety, and trouble remembering things, which are not as bad as, the ones cigarettes cause. Making marijuana illegal is expensive, rather than just legalizing it. Judge Andrew Napolitano of California, in an interview with Fox News, gave his opinion on why he thinks it should be legalized. He states that it costs 50 billion dollars every year for prosecuting people using marijuana. Other than wasting that money on making the drug illegal, the government should consider what that money could do to help our nation. People get locked up just because they enjoy being high without causing any harm to anyone. Taxpayers have to suffer paying for the cost of keeping people locked up. If the government can consider making it legal, it would benefit our nation because they could tax it and we’ll have so much more money. The money could be spent on more important things like roads, hospitals, schools and we’ll be able to feed the nation. It wouldn’t hurt to legalize something that will benefit us all in the end. Prescription narcotics cost around $100, and sometimes they have side effects like damaging the kidneys, liver, heart, or death. Marijuana hasn’t been proven to cause any side effects on people. If marijuana were legal, it would be the cheapest, produced and processed drug in the United States. According to MacCaun and Reuter of CNBC, they believe legalization of Marijuana is causing the government to do legal gambling. These two have to look at it in a different way, that it a huge lump sum of money is raised, through government taxation of alcohol and cigarettes. So the government in the end will benefit from the extra money. Another benefit the nation will have from legalizing Marijuana will be less drug dealers on the street. Once Marijuana is accessible to people legally, drug dealers will start losing their businesses and less crimes will be committed. Drug dealers tend to make a lot more money through selling marijuana on the street. If the government legalizes it, there would be less business for the drug dealers. If drug dealers were reduced, the nation wouldn’t have to worry about paying a lot of taxes to keep these drug dealers locked up. Marijuana is also used for religious purposes, so believers should have access to it. No one should be tied down for not using marijuana for his or her personal purposes. Everyone has a right to be respected in what they believe in. Traditions like Buddhists tend to use marijuana as their holy plant. The Freedom Recreation Act was passed in New Jersey on March 1993, that everyone should have a right of free exercise of his or her religion. By not legalizing marijuana, the government is not following the act it passed on religion. It’s not fair to those who use marijuana in their religion. The government should consider this before they go on and ban the use of marijuana. For one they were the ones to pass the act and they’re the ones not to follow the act. In the end, the legalization of marijuana catches many people’s attention because when the facts are all said and presented well, the nation would definitely benefit. With the taxes being high, marijuana could also be taxed and more money to the nation can feed and clothe the poor.