(Final Practice) Legalization of marijuana

The bigger society has become, the more people have come to live in urban areas. Urban areas have benefits which are convenience and that everything is fast. But these situations aren't always good. Under these surroundings, people get lots of stress easily, so they try to fine something to solve their problem. Marijuana is one of the solutions, because if people take a marijuana they can forget their hard time and feel happy. But there are many side effects from marijuana. It causes problems in our society.

Marijuana has benefits to make people able to feel happy. But it provides many social problems. So we should know what problems marijuana creates for us and we have to make a policy to ban marijuana.

The first reason that we should ban marijuana is that it has a das influence on our health. According to the Institute of Medicine, we can get many diseases from taking marijuana. If we take a drug, it gives bad effects to us, for example, psychological problem. After taking marijuana, many people can feel they are in fancy. But it is a problem that people want to feel this again so they take marijuana continually and they can't control their mind without marijuana.

The second reason is that marijuana makes lots of crimes. There are many crimes that have happened from people who take the drug. They did crime under an illusion. Because drug makes people unable to control their body and mind, they can't decide whether it is bad behavior or not. So "according to a recent Time/CNN poll. 34 percent of Americans want marijuana to be totally legalized" (Roche, 2002, para.56). Thus many nations want to ban marijuana because marijuana causes many social problems and it gives effects to many people.

The third reason is that a mistake at a young age affects people's future. According to VU University Amsterdam, many people suffered from the fact that they took marijuana in their young age. That is because if they want to remove their past, they can't do it. Their body and mind are already weak and some people went to jail because of marijuana (n,d., para.1). Everyone makes mistakes but marijuana gives big trauma to us. In serious cases, some people have died because they overdosed on marijuana. But after aying, it is too late to regret our mistake. So marijuana is too dangerous to be called a mistake.

Nowadays there are many debates about legalization of marijuana. But marijuana has many problems. It causes health problems, especially psychological problems and people who take marijuana commit crime so it later, but it leaves big trauma, so it is difficult to recover. So for those reasons, especially to protect people's health and health of society, I think marijuana should be banned by law.

Reference:
Institute of Medicine, (2000). Marijuana as Medicine?. The Science Behind the Controversy. The National Academies Press. Retrieved on July 29, 2008, from: http://tinyurl.com/6q8re9

Roche, M. (2002, Dec6). Marijuana advocates seek legalization for medicine use. The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State Univ. Retrieved on July 29,2008, from: http://tinyurl.com/6aam73

VU University Amsterdam. (n,d.). Stay away from cannabis. Retrieved on July 29,2008, from http://tinyurl.com/59vmrs