A Rant about a Plant

Marijuana should be legal for so many reasons that it would be absurd to try and document them all on this blog. However, I will run through a couple of them.

Excellent reasons for why marijuana should be legal:

1. Marijuana is not a gateway drug. "People who use heavy drugs claim that their drug use started with marijuana." No shit. There has to be a beginning to everything, including drug use. The first time you drove a car, did you compete in Le Mans? Of course not. To relate, hardly anybody's first drug will be heroin or some other hard street drug. At some point during every pot smoker's use of marijuana, and sometimes even before they start blazing, he or she will learn of drugs that have much more pronounced effects. Whether or not this person then decides to move on from marijuana to more intense drugs has nothing to do with the fact that they blazed in the first place. It has to do with a combination of morbid curiosity, life situation, and brain chemistry. The use of marijuana does not have a causal relationship with the later use of more harmful drugs.

2. Tobacco is legal.

3. Alcohol is legal.

4. Marijuana does not cause a lack of motivation. Marijuana has a tendency to attract users of less-than-average motivation, because being high makes sitting on a couch all day interesting. If marijuana didn't exist, it's not as if these people would be out doing medical research or volunteering at homeless shelters.

5. The government says that it should be illegal.

6. "Marijuana negatively affects the memory." First of all, let's see some proof. Secondly, so does being tired and aging.

7. If marijuana was legalized, crime would decrease. By making something illegal, the government creates a black market for it, and crime results. Is increased crime really worth having in order to fail at preventing people from lighting up a J?

8. Vaporizers exist. The argument about negative effects on the lungs is not valid.

9. Reggae.