0:02 the US has made alcohol and tobacco a
0:04 normal and traditional thing and we even
0:06 praise it as a whole even though it
0:08 damages you the same as any other drug
0:11 20 of the 50 states in America have
0:13 already legalized marijuana
0:15 recreationally and Minnesota is one of those
0:16 those
0:18 States I have read five articles in a
0:22 book to help credit the information I'll
0:25 be giving you today my persuasive speech
0:27 I'll be persuading you why legalizing
0:28 recreational marijuana has more
0:31 appealing f you guys have seen I'll give
0:33 you examples of reasons why recreational
0:36 marijuana can Pro improve
0:40 society and reduce usage of other
0:42 drugs debates have been around for a
0:44 long time in voting like how we do for
0:46 our presidents and our Senators and the
0:48 same thing happened over recreational
0:51 marijuana use in 2016 there was a vote
0:53 and the debate over recreational
0:55 marijuana in the article public
0:57 perceptions of arguments supporting and
0:59 opposing recreational marijuana legalization
1:00 legalization
1:04 by Emma McGinty showed the preferences
1:06 debates gave the pros and the cons of
1:09 legalizing marijuana with
1:12 63.9% agreed that marijuana would help
1:14 with government with tax revenue and
1:17 62.8 agreed that it would help prison
1:20 overcrowding they prefer these probes
1:22 over the health of
1:24 individuals this allows the citizens to
1:26 choose if this is what they want since
1:29 this is based of off of our government
1:32 system and citizens pref prefer to have
1:34 marijuana legalized for the
1:37 economy mckin further talks on about
1:38 voting and saying that people pro-
1:41 legalizing marijuana with is to reduce
1:43 person overcrowding decrease racial
1:46 disparities in Marijuana arrest increase
1:48 tax revenue and create new jobs these
1:50 reasons were found in almost every
1:52 single article that I
1:54 read uh in the article assessing the
1:56 public health impacts of legalizing
1:59 recreational Mar Cannabis used by the US
2:02 exper by Wayne Hall claimed that
2:06 marijuana is less harmful than
2:10 IDs tobacco and alcohol having an
2:12 illegal is more harmful than having it
2:14 legal because it gives people a criminal
2:16 record and it just impacts your life
2:18 more than if it was
2:21 legal Paul says these criminal laws
2:23 disproportionately affects cannabis
2:26 users and minority populations Hall
2:28 lists some benefits of legalizing for
2:30 adults like it allows thetic Market to
2:32 be eliminated as the government can
2:35 control the THC content uh heavy metals
2:38 fungi and pesticides found in current
2:40 marijuana Hulk consumes that there's
2:42 multiple ways that the government could
2:44 Legalize It Like The Government Can have
2:47 full control sell it and limit it or a
2:49 second reason is that they could allow
2:52 us to grow it and do what we want with
2:53 it like give it to others and use it how
2:56 we want to and the third reason is that
2:57 they have a no profit on it like they
2:59 could sell it and all the profits from
3:01 marijuana would just go to
3:04 Charities there's multiple reasons to
3:05 legalize it like the economy the
3:08 government tax re Revenue which was
3:11 found to be the most common benefit but
3:13 we could the in the article economic
3:15 benefits and social costs of legalizing
3:18 recreational marijuana by Jason Brown
3:20 talks about the 1940s they actually
3:22 legalized it and it helped create Goods
3:25 for the war efforts and another reason
3:28 why people say that it would be
3:37 police so the articles I read and quoted
3:40 about police and Pros in our cring
3:44 is obviously informational and it said
3:47 that but the question is how does it
3:49 impact for
3:52 police Steve Fox is a retired police
3:54 officer General who wrote his book
3:56 marijuana is safer so why are we driving
3:59 people to drink in his introduction he
4:01 WR read it and you'll agree it is time
4:04 that we stop the American people to Jo
4:05 instead we should simply and logically
4:08 allow them a super alternative that's
4:10 what they prefer he asked his fellow
4:12 workers while he was on the police force
4:13 when it was the last time they had to
4:16 fight someone who was high in marijuana
4:18 and they said that they never had to but
4:19 then he asked the same thing about
4:21 people who were drunk and they all
4:23 looked at their watch and scoffed as
4:25 they have to fight people who are drunk
4:32 at some point Fox and his workers had to
4:33 go and supervise the soccer game that
4:36 contained alcohol because it was a very
4:39 big event and he even quote in his book
4:41 that we aren't looking for people who
4:43 are smoking weed we are looking for the
4:46 ones who are drunk and being
4:48 aggressive that soccer game the had to
4:55 drunks I am not denying that marijuana
4:57 is bad for you it's a drug it's going to
4:59 be harmful to you but in the question I
5:01 asked you I asked you guys how often do
5:03 you get away with things and over half
5:06 of you say you get get away with things
5:08 over half the time well that's the same
5:09 thing for drug users so if they're going
5:11 to get away with it why don't we
5:14 legalize it and make it
5:16 safer overall marijuana is safer for the
5:19 economy but why do I say
5:21 this in the article the effects of
5:23 recreational marijuana legalization and
5:27 dispensing on mortality by Nathan Shane
5:29 claims that legalizing recreational marijana
5:30 marijana
5:34 would reduce opio mortality rates by
5:37 52% at this Pro this as in the west it
5:39 was legalized while in the East it was
5:42 still illegal and the East had booming
5:45 opid epidemic problems and the West did
5:49 not there's also no hardcore evidence
5:52 that legalizing it would actually
5:55 increase usage as in Washington usage
5:57 did increase but in Colorado there was
6:04 other reasons I will tell you about this
6:06 is that in the article legal use of
6:09 marijuana was scientific evidence
6:11 overwhelmed self perceived High Feeling
6:13 by Jason Leonard describes what
6:15 marijuana does to you
6:17 emotionally he quotes the effect of
6:20 marijuana is to improve sensory activity
6:22 and and lack of pain signals as
6:24 marijuana creates a feeling of joy
6:27 happiness and refreshment the way that
6:28 marijuana affects you is based on your
6:31 environment so if you're in a good happy
6:34 parling environment that's how the
6:36 effect of marijuana will happen to you
6:37 but if you're in a stressful environment
6:40 you would get more stress from
6:43 it marijuana overdoses make you feel
6:46 extreme panic attacks anxiety and makes
6:48 you feel out of reality but most of the
6:50 time these are shortterm and naturally
6:54 relieved and the overdoses does not kill
6:57 somebody marijuana gives people the
7:00 Mellow effect compared to alol that
7:02 gives you the aggressive effect so if
7:03 more people were taking marijuana
7:05 compared to being drunk it would be
7:07 safer for the society as there wouldn't
7:08 be so many
7:11 fights in my persued speech I gave to
7:12 you guys today I talked about
7:14 recreational marijuana having better
7:17 economy effects for society with police
7:19 government tax revenue citizen safety
7:23 and many more here is my work cited and
7:25 next time you think about marijuana
7:28 being worse remember it's sa than
7:30 America's Favorite Drug alol which we
7:33 come to normalize today I am Zoe gtis
