viernes, 16 de enero de 2009

Argumentative Text - The legalization of marijuana -


The fight for the legalization of the marijuana come as a prescription of the drug should be allowed or dined.

The marijuana helps people that suffer of cancer, neurological disorders and AIDS. Usually the calming effects of marijuana help on the effects of chemotherapy as nausea and dizziness. It also controls muscle spams and contraction and helps with the relaxation. The marijuana also can eliminate stress because of its pleasurable benefits.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.) has declared that legalizing marijuana will open the possibility of transform its use in a free way of consume it, so everybody will be able to use it. But for medical purposes a prescription given from a doctor would be essential to buy and get the drug.

Also, the D.E.A is afraid for the possible addiction that is concern, but if a doctor prescribes the marijuana, he will have the chance to control the intake of the patient.

Is really the marijuana that harmful? What are the arguments of the two parts involve (pro and against)?

Against:

-Government cannot be involved in the distribution of illegal substances, because the goal of states is to protect citizens' health.
-To find marijuana in a free way will increase the number of users, and will not reduce them.
-Drugs are addictive.
-The free will to use drugs makes people who use them irrational, unable to make decision and to be logical.
-The use of soft drugs as marijuana lead to consume harder drugs.
-If marijuana is legalize this will send a message to children that drug use is acceptable.

Pro:

-Legal prohibition does not stop consumers from consuming drugs, and it also does not stop trafficants from producing and selling it. If the government legalize marijuana would be able to control de traffic and the use.
-Find marijuana will not be in a free way. It would be in control of the authorities. It would be necessary to have a prescription note, for a specific doctor, for patients who really need it.
-The marijuana is not physically addictive. Legal drugs as cocaine, caffeine and alcohol are highly addictive. However, people begin their drug abuse because of the wine or cigarettes, not cause the marijuana.
-Marijuana don’t make people irrational nor illogical.
-75 percent of all Americans who use marijuana never use harder drugs.
-The free use of marijuana will send a message to children of freedom and free decision.


In some countries substances such as marijuana are legal, like Netherlands, Canada and Belgium, however the globally legalization doesn’t seam to get near.

For some information about marijuana use you can visit:

http://www.legalizationofmarijuana.com/index.html

http://www.mjlegal.org/

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Quotes from the World Wide Web: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/marijuana.html

1 comentario:

Lisette dijo...

Edit before posting!
Its Netherlands.....