Legalization of Marijuana - 2ndPdAltmanLA8Persuasion2010

Legalization of Marijuana
By: Audrey Ohlhaber
Matt Locklear
And Casey Combs
Medical Advantages
• Marijuana can help with many diseases such
as cancer, AIDS, Glaucoma, and Multiple
Sclerosis.
• Marijuana takes away pain, nausea, eye
pressure, and can controls spasms.
• It would be very useful for all of the current
and future ill patients with these terminal
diseases.
Recreational Purposes
• There has never been a documented death
caused by marijuana.
• If legalized, the government would be able to
bring in a lot of income for the economy with
the amount of jobs it would create, and the
taxes that could be placed on marijuana.
Other Reasons
• The police department would have more time
to work on other more important cases if
marijuana was legalized.
• 50 million people have tried it, and 25million
people are currently using it.