Proposal: Marijuana

Marijuana

    Some people ask why Marijuana should be legalized, but we should as why should marijuana be illegal? In my point of view individuals should be able to make their own choices for themselves, The government only has the right to limit those choices if one individuals actions endanger someone else. This should not apply to marijuana since the individual who chooses to use marijuana does so according to his or her own free will. Keeping marijuana illegal in expensive and prohibition doesn’t help.
    Keeping marijuana illegal is beyond expensive. If marijuana was legal it would save our government lots of money. In the united states all forms of government participate in the “war on drugs.” Billions of dollars every year are spent to chase the peaceful people who just really in joy getting high. These people get locked up in prison and the tax payers are the ones who have to foot the bill. We have to pay for all these expenses to lock these people up. Billions of dollars could be saved if we would stop locking people up for having marijuana on them. If the harmful plant was legal the government would be able to collect taxes on it, and would have a lot of money to pay for effective drug programs and maybe pay on so much of this debt they owe.
    Prohibition does not help, it just causes a lot of problems. There is no good evidence that’s proves the prohibition helps and decreases drug use. Marijuana is really easy for high school students to obtain, Why? Because it is illegal. You have to be a certain age to get alcohol unlike marijuana, dealers don’t care how old you are when buying marijuana as long as you have the money. If the goal is to reduce drug consumption then we should open honest youth programs to educate the youth. The current prohibition scheme does not allow these reasonable approaches to marijuana. We tried prohibition with alcohol and that failed terribly, why repeat the same mistakes?
    There are many reasons why marijuana should be legal. Medical use is a huge reason why it should be legal, marijuana can be used to stimulate appetite and relieve nausea in cancer and AIDS patients. The hemp plant is a very valuable and natural resource. Legalizing marijuana would help clear up a lot of confusion surrounding hemp and allow us to take advantage of hemps agricultural and industrial uses. Marijuana uses refuse to give up their long quest for justice because they believe in fundamental values of American society. Marijuana will be legalized because marijuana users will continue to fight for it until they succeed.

Response 4: Reforming Public Education

Reforming Public Education

    Public education is nowhere near, what it should be in today’s society; most of the public education system has denied funding for quite sometime. Most teachers are now spending the money out of their pockets on textbooks for their students. Many people now days believe that if you are not in school then you are not intelligent what so ever. Technology has taken over the world; kids have so many things that can distract them from focusing in school. School funds becoming more and more a problem and so is the way kids are being forced to learn
    In the article “Teachers wonder, why the scorn?” Mrs. Parker who was one of the teachers that went on strike said, “I love teaching, but I have 26,000 of student debt.” the debt is so bad that she can hardly afford to live where she lives today. Most people believe that school and teaching degrees are pointless to have in today’s economy.
     More and more college kids each day are going into debt because of the cost of school. Most teachers are already in debt because their job has yet to pay off their debt, and now the education system will not even pay for the books that students have to have. The teachers are becoming more in debt because of the money they are spending out of their pockets to get the students they education they need to succeed.
    Some schools have their own ways of how they think students should be taught, there are many different ways to teach students effectively but many are not concerned. The education system has been the same for years and I do not see any signs of change, it seems like it gets worse every year and there are more students that drop out of school each year. In my opinion the reason why students are dropping out if because they have seen people get jobs without a degree and that are making more money than what they would be making once they graduated. But its true. Some students just cannot stay focused because of the way they are being taught, it is completely boring to them and they have so much not heir mind that what’s going on in class is not their focus.
    To say the least students and teachers both are getting neglected in this situation. As a college student myself I feel that something needs to be done about all the problems the education system are causing. The economy is horrible right now and many people are suffering and being punished for something that they have no control over. Something needs to be done before things get a lot worse.

Response 3; Someplace Like America

Response to “Someplace Like America”

    In the article “Someplace like America” Maharidge study’s the lives of the homeless, Maharidge sets out on a journey to meet homeless people and he gets to know them on a personal level. In Santa Barbara, California on December 5, 1984 a hobo by the name Kenneth Burr was murdered. All the homeless people in that area were called “tree people” and at night the cops were “sweeping” the homeless to make their lives miserable.
    There were some homeless people that had so much in value and just lost everything do to the economy and the loss of jobs which made them become completely homeless. The way cops handled the situation by trying to make the homeless feel uncomfortable in my opinion is beyond wrong. Some of the people that were homeless couldn’t help the things that were going on in their lives at the time and I feel that they should not be punished any more than they already are. I can say that things were a lot worse in the 1980’s compared to now after reading this article.
    In the 1980’s most people who got laid off from work often lost their homes and were not able to bounce back to find a new job. All suffered depression and mentally gave up which made their lives quickly go down hill. Still today America faces huge problems dealing with the economy and there are more and more Americans becoming homeless each day. There are many people today struggling to survive, most are in need of immediate help. I’m not really sure if the cops are still “sweeping” in some places still today, but if so there should be a stop to it.
    When some people lose their jobs and everything they own they are not able to deal with the road that’s ahead of them so they just give up and mentally break down. But there are also some of us who are motivated and can over come almost anything. Even the ones who break down and don’t know what to do with their selves are still considered survivors in my mind.
    As a young American I have grown to learn that the world we live in is far from easy, yet we still stand strong and get through what’s needed to survive in this world of overwhelming obstacles. There has been many changes for the worse just in my generation that I know of, which is no where near as bad as most of the generations before me. Life is still hard at times but I’m sure it’s not meant to be easy. Even the homeless never give up on life they always find a way to survive.