Marijuana...legal? or illegal?

“Doctors also warned against overuse of marijuana, believing that too much consumption caused impotence, blindness and ‘seeing devils’." - Patrick Stack and Claire Suddath

Everyone hears stories about marijuana and what’s good and bad about it, that’s all a lot of people have to talk about. But does everyone really know the good and the bad? Or do they know just the good or the bad to make their point look stronger? Marijuana does have good and bad side effects, if taken the right or wrong way. Someone can take it for medical purposes, good side effect, or someone cause just abuse the power they have for it, bad side effect.

13 states in the U.S. have legalized marijuana for medical uses. According to County district attorney Steve Cooley it is estimated that there are about 1,000 illegally operated marijuana shops in LA alone. So why can’t authority find them if they know that there is illegal marijuana business going on and stop them? Or better yet, legalize it and get tax money of it. Marijuana was legal until 1914 and only became illegal to try and get cocaine and other substances under control, but not all marijuana smokers did other drugs. People do other drugs just do to other drugs.

Birdseed producers are still allowed to use hemp seeds to put in bird food because they claim that “it gives their feathers an extra shiny gloss.” The only condition to them using the seeds is that they have to be treated so that they can not grow once they make it to the ground, but what would happen if the treatment happens to not work on some of the seeds? Would the person that owns the land that the seeds fell in get punished? That’s definitely something that hasn’t been well thought out.

Many argue that smoking cigarettes is worse than smoking pot, and vise versa. Smoking anything in general is bad for anyone, it doesn’t matter what it is. Someone could smoke paper if they wanted to and it’s still not going to be good for heath issues.

I understand that marijuana has been illegal now for awhile, but was also legal for quite sometime before that. Why only legalize it again for medical purposes when it is also still being sold illegally? That’s extra money that the government could have because that’s what they are all about. Should marijuana be legal or illegal? And if it’s illegal, it should all be illegal, not used just for special purposes in medical fields and bird food.