Go Green

  My commentary is on my classmate, Rachel’s blog, “Making Sense of Government”. In her post on “Legalization of Cannabis” provides a great statistical background on marijuana. Such as the deaths caused by marijuana compared to the much higher deaths caused by legal cigarette and alcohol consumption. She also provides the benefits of marijuana like health and tax revenue benefits. Rachel believes marijuana should be legalized based on these facts, but with only an legal age. The federal government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I drug. Schedule I drugs are considered to have the highest potential for abuse. The society provokes marijuana to be a gateway drug, and there are a lot of people in jail because of this plant. I think that is so crazy. How can the worst things out there like sugar be sold everywhere, while a innocent plant is banned. Sugar is highly addictive and there is an average of 70,000 deaths caused by diabetes annually, yet there is sugar being sold everywhere you go.