Changes In Marijuana Laws
Most people are unhappy with current marijuana laws. Groups who favor legalization claim that current marijuana laws are too harsh and criminalize marijuana users. These groups claim that no serious crimes or accidents have been caused by marijuana - unlike, for example, alcohol - and that police spend a lot of time and money looking for marijuana users when they could be looking for criminals who actually hurt others. These groups claim that marijuana laws make criminals of a group of people who do not hurt or victimize anyone. These groups also claim that marijuana laws create a society that is more unsafe, as jails and courts are filled with marijuana users while serious criminals go free. Some people also claim that marijuana has medicinal properties and marijuana laws unfairly prohibit those with serious illnesses from accessing a substance that could help them. Other groups, who oppose the legalization of marijuana, claim that current marijuana laws are too lax and that this sends out the message that drugs are not dangerous. These groups claim that marijuana is a drug and that studies have suggested that using this drug can lead to addiction to other drugs. These groups assert that changing current marijuana laws would make people more likely to smoke the substance and would make people rally to make other substances legal, too. They claim that proposed changes to marijuana laws in order to legalize the substance would be a big mistake, since any such changes would create more addiction. These groups feel that marijuana laws should rather be made clearer and should treat marijuana - and indeed all drugs - as illegal substances. Current marijuana laws do prohibit growing, selling and possessing marijuana in most states. Many countries besides our have struggled with