Marijuana: The Legalization? Marijuana is the focus of more debate today than any other drug. The on-going debate has intensified greatly since the propositions passed in Arizona and California that allow the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes. Lots of people admit that they’ve tried marijuana and they have found that it gives them a high without excessive detrimental side effects. Therefore, due to its medical uses and limited serious side effects, marijuana …showed first 75 words of 1070 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1070 total…Marijuana Should Be Legal 56). Yet, you have tobacco, alcohol, and aspirin legal. If you legalize marijuana it will benefit a great deal of patients with cancer, AIDS, asthma, glaucoma, and other diseases that marijuana can help. In 1988, Judge Francis Young of the DEA found marijuana to be “the safest therapeutic substance known to man” (Http://norml.org). The debate still continues and hopefully marijuana is legalized, for the benefit of the nation and the ill.