Marijuana Law Reform

Donovan Kessler Anderson 11-29-00 Term Paper A huge amount of Americans are currently being arrested and sentenced for defying an unjustly created law. These Americans suffer from overly harsh penalties and may even be sentenced to death just for relaxing in ways similar to how many Americans drink a beer to relax. The current excuse from government officials for keeping marijuana illegal is that it leads to the use of harder drugs, which is …

…between marijuana use and cocaine use, which “gateway” theorists would lead you to believe. Even if marijuana use was to decrease due to prohibition, it would not mean that there would necessarily lead to a decrease in cocaine use. I hope it has become clearer that something needs to be done. Marijuana needs to be legalized both federally and from state to state in order to keep this crime against Americans from continuing to happen.