Original post: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/opinion/legalizing-marijuana.html
Statistics from: http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/prescription/abuse-international-statistics.html
Welcome back readers,
Today i will be touching on a letter to the editor that just didn't match what the article was truly speaking of. In an article by the New York Times magazine, they touched on how drugs are one of the main causes of death for teenagers across the country. In the article, it talks about a growing problem that is not helped by the push for the use of medical marijuana that is making its push in the house as well. 70% of voters are behind the idea of making medical marijuana legal in every state. This is a growing problem that The United States has had to battle on their own soil. No matter how much they try, the ability to get drugs is getting easier and easier for children 12-17 years of age. The article tells us that this is a problem that even may soon be neutralized if marijuana is finally legalized across all 50 states under a uniform process as well as the added stipulations such as alcohol, we could see a significant drop in the amount of children using. The letter to the editor touched on the other views of marijuana. While almost everyone agrees that is the lesser of two evils, it is still a hard sell for the population that are very religious and the amount of people from older generations who despise the thought of it becoming legal. They see this as a gate way to more drugs being legalized as well as teaching kids to get into another drug to start off and turning pot into today's cigarettes. It will lose its thrill of getting away with trouble and convince kids to get into worse things like meth and cocaine. This is something that is completely off beat because it is going into the effects of recreational weed being legal before medical the idea of a new problem coming without any proof. There is also a large amount of personal opinion that goes into both of these articles due to when someone was born and how they were raised. The article also touches on how weed can turn into todays alcohol and how we will see a higher amount of DUI's to come about due to people not being able to tell how bad they truly are. This article tackles more then the topic of medical marijuana, it takes on the whole process of opening up marijuana to the public at large which we have no evidence to prove this will be good or bad. So what we can take from both of these writings is that whether you are Pro-marijuana or against it, there is no proof to back up anyones statements.
Thank you for visiting and see you next time,
Hunter Allen
This was a very interesting post. I think you made a good point about the legalization of marijuana eventually making weed the new cigarette. It is in a way desensitizing the world to the effects of these drugs, similar to the evolution of profanity in music and violence in video games.
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