They would have done it anyway

Many people say that weed is a gateway drug but I do not feel as if this statement is true. The people who use other drugs were more likely to use them in the first place. It should be legal to benefit our country. In addition, if it were so horrible it would not be used for medical reasons.

If it was a gateway drug then everyone who has tried it would try harder drugs also but some people have only used weed. That does not make it a gateway drug. The fact is that the people who use other drugs would have used them anyway; they just started with weed because it is the easiest and earliest drug accessible to them. If this were true then a person would have to say that alcohol should be illegal because it is a gateway drug. Most people try alcohol and tobacco as their first drug of choice and that can lead to using other drugs also.

If weed was legal, the hemp plant could be used for food, medicine, building material, paper, jewelry, fabric, water and soil purification, fuel, and much more. This could stop the deforestation and help save the rainforest. This could also help stop the war on oil, which is killing so many of America’s youth. Harry Anslinger got congress to pass the bill to make it illegal because he spoke of the negative racial effects it had. For example ‘it makes black men brave enough to step on a whit mans shadow or look twice at a white women’ or ‘murders kill because they are on marijuana’ so the reasons of it being illegal are just plain stupid. A country can come so far in race discrimination but still have things that were made illegal on racial terms, it is really sad for our country.

Weed is a great drug and can be used to boost this drowning economy. If people would look at the facts about it and stop thinking it’s a form of the devil our country could stop doing things like destroying the earth, killing for oil, and paying all of our taxes to imprison people for the sale of a harmless plant. It could better society altogether, maybe even keep more people docile and have less killings(who knows).

Addiction

http://www.aetv.com/intervention/video/?bcpid=53411497001&bclid=64419253001&bctid=64670639001

I originally saw a youtube video of this girl, Allison with the "I'm walking on sunshine" song playing in the background. I automatically thought it was fake and funny, until I watched more and I finally saw the full episode on tv. I was shocked that someone could get hooked on something like this and survive. She looked TERRIBLE. This is the closest video I could find on youtube to sum up this episode. I even tryied going to their site to try to find the whole episode, but they didn't have it. The second clip is from their website. It shows her sober and she looks great! I really wanted to share this video clip because I think it went well with additions.

Although my uncle is not addicted to the same thing as Allison was, it reminds me of him. When he was younger he went into the army and got into drugs. For many many years he would do anything to get money to buy drugs. My family and I took him in a twice to help him get away from it all, his own little rehab center. The first time living with us, my dad bought him a little pick-up truck to get from job to job. When we came home one day we found the truck gone and all of my dads tools gone. He stole them to sell them for drug money. That wasn't the first time he stole from his family. A year or two later we took him back and he's been with us ever since. He has been clean, from what I know of. He is doing much better. What would he have done if my family and I didn't take him in?