Modern-Day Prohibition- The Criminalization of Marijuana

In January 1919, amendment of Article 18 on the prohibition of alcohol was approved by gradual exercise. In 1933 when the crime rate rose and the problem spread nationwide, it was abolished soon. The concept of "gangsters" was established and dangerous alcohol became part of the American meal. This problem is obvious in this country right now. Cannabis is a perfectly natural plant, it is known to "high" someone or change the way of thinking It has been illegal since the "marijuana tax law" was enacted in 1937.

On the other hand, marijuana's ban on smoking costs a lot of money. In Canada, thousands of people are arrested annually for marijuana crime and when people are taken in prison or in prison and taken criminal records, they separate the community from their families. According to the experience of Colorado State, the enforcement of these laws also requires money and the legalization and taxation of cannabis may result in additional income - according to Colorado experience, the cannabis tax is on the general budget It is less than 1%. Marijuana's black market is intensifying intense events around the world - not only causing conflicts and violence in Canada, but money in the cans illegally produced and sold often go back to the drug trafficking group and kill the murder Use it to carry out brutal violence including. , Beheading, kidnapping, torture. Legislation shifts cannabis from an illegal and potentially violent market to a legitimate market that can produce legitimate employment.

US drug-ban critics believe that violence in Mexico is a direct result of the US ban that produces a black market for marijuana. - It is usually violent. It is getting. A review of the research evidence on the violence of the National Academy of Sciences states that "the vast majority of evidence from experimental studies of animals and humans, and the majority of data from long-term users are marijuana preparations to reduce attacks and violence , Marijuana etc.) or THC. "Behavior."

Looking at, I am not another wrapper I'm trying to legalize marijuana. Because I like to smoke marijuana. It is more serious than that. The history of the ban on cannabis in the United States derives from a deliberate criminalization of the color of adolescence. At the home of Atlanta, the center of civil rights of our own world, this unfairness continues to this day. In Fulton County, we are among the most racial countries in arresting marijuana across the country. In fact, according to WSB-TV reports, 93% of Atlanta's cannabis has recently been arrested as an African-American. However, it turned out that black and white citizens used the same marijuana. That is why I wrote a letter to you today. Due to criminal convictions of young people they will be blocked from employment, school and other opportunities