blog 6

     "Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me." Tupac once said. Marijuana discrimination has been a controversial topic for years. You can’t have multiple states around the country legalizing marijuana, 28 states making medical marijuana legal, and all of a sudden say we want to continue keep marijuana illegal. There’s an amendment that doesn’t allow the federal government to use dollars to prosecute legal states’ use of marijuana. From a medical perspective, marijuana should be taken off the category one, making it equal to heroin as a drug. It is not equal and every single medical society says it isn’t. If its taken off of category one, medical research on marijuana would continue and people would see whatever parts of the plants would work for medical use.  

     Drugs aren’t good in general, but when people are dying from alcohol related deaths and you have zero deaths from marijuana, you have to wonder and double check your thoughts on the subject. Even the people who think legalizing marijuana is a great idea don’t say it’s a good thing. The argument for legalizing pot isn’t that pot is good, but that the war on pot is bad. There’s a way in which legal marijuana could be a public health win. There’s one drug that you won’t see in the drug group which is alcohol, even though it is a lot more dangerous than marijuana or cocaine. Alcohol is really bad for you, lethally bad for you. The centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there are thousands of deaths each years attribute to alcohol. Alcohol is a big contributor to violence, crime, and addiction. It gives people cancer and liver failure. Compared to alcohol, marijuana is a lot safer to use than alcohol. People don’t die from it... they rarely kill others while on it.  

     People using marijuana for fun might have a very different relationship to alcohol than people using marijuana because they’re sick. This isn’t just something we can study, its something that we can affect, that we can change. Dani, I believe this subject is very debatable and people would have countless opinions about it. I really enjoyed reading your article and I really hope we solve this issue soon!