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LEGALIES IT Willy Treff
12-21-07
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Think and go back, go back to when weed was legal. Then picture blunts and blunts passed around and around. Finally it stops and weed becomes illegal, people getting arrested for smoking. But in some states it is legal for medical marijuana. But I ask Why cant marijuana be legal everywhere? But then people give me answers like it harms you and it impairs your driving. Then I respond by saying cigarettes harm your more and alcohol impairs your driving. So I'm back to the question, why can’t marijuana be legal? I'm here to tell you the reasons why I think marijuana should be legal. For those of you that don’t know marijuana is also weed, dope, pot, reefer, cheeba, herb ganja, tree and cannabis.
Well I think that tobacco products harm you more than marijuana. Marijuana is grown and then dried a little. Now cigarettes have a bunch of other chemicals in it other than the tobacco. It will have either rat poison or fiberglass in it. If it’s a kool or a Newport it has fiberglass in it and if it’s a red it has rat poison. Then people say that they don’t smoke cigarettes they dip. So I say ok dipping you think is not bad for you but its just as bad. Instead of smoking it, it’s as if you unroll it and put it in your lip. It has the same stuff in it but its worse for your gums if you dip.
Another reason is that the government could make money off of it. All of the money that is passed around by drug dealers could be the government’s. They charge the same amount for weed as they do for medical marijuana. So if you keep the prices of $20 a gram and $60 for 3.5, that is also know as an 8th of an ounce the government would make a lot more money. Then people could also grow and that would make it better for other people who would want to sell it. But you couldn’t make it illegal to grow because we can grow tobacco; it just happens that we cant here. That’s a lot of money to be missing out on.
Now everyone here remember sitting in the freshman wellness classroom listening to Rich speak. Well he said everything like marijuana burns wholes in your brain and inferred that if we smoke we would become stupid. Well I have not noticed any change in my grades from before I was smoking to when I was smoking. Does this mean that I didn’t get brain damage? Marijuana is proved to help Alzheimer’s decease. This must mean that it helps your memory and so how could it destroy your memory. But I did notice my eyesight got worse since I stopped and it was better when I was smoking. So it also helps your eyesight. But it did take a lot of money. I noticed a change in my wallet. I never had money but I always had weed.
MARIJUANA CANNOT BE A GATEWAY DRUG. It is the same as tobacco but less addictive. It is also cheep. Coke and other drugs can cost $80 bucks a gram. That’s too expensive; you could buy more than a slice for that much. The high for coke is much different than the high with weed. So why would you want to do another drug that is expensive, more addicting and can kill you faster. The high for weed can get intense it just depends on how much you smoke. So people should be fine with smoking weed.
Finally the taste. There are 100’s of types of weed and 1000 different tastes of weed. There are some middies, which doesn’t taste too good. It tastes like dirt; it just has a bad flavor. Then is the KB, which is ok, but still has that shwag flavor. Next is the hydro. This can be a different flavor like blueberry. Then is the heddies. The heddies has a fruity flavor to it and smells the same way. Next is the bomb heddies, which can be spicy, fruity or taste like bubblegum. One common bomb heddes is the purple haze. It taste like you took a sip of one of the best grape sodas in the world. This entire grape flavor is rushed at you and you don’t know what to do but accept it. Then everything is great.
These are the reasons why I think marijuana should be legal! So take some time later and think about what I have said. Next time you hit that blunt, bowl, or 2 foot bong, remember legalize it!