Essay on Speech on Legalization of Marijuana in Brazil

Speech on Legalization of Marijuana in Brazil Good morning class mates. Today I am going to discuss the legalization of marijuana in Brazil. I strongly believe marijuana should be legalized. I am not here to encourage anyone to use or not use marijuana. Yet I do believe that many current problems may and can be solved by its legalization. Marijuana is the most popular drug in Brazil after tobacco and alcohol. Discrimination is the reason why marijuana has still not been legalized. It is already proved by famous scientists that marijuana is not addictive and no one ever died only because of marijuana, yet tobacco is addictive and causes more than five million deaths per year. But due to†¦show more content†¦Violence in Brazil is terrible and believe it or not, most of it is caused by drugs. In â€Å"favelas† – shantytowns - children are selling marijuana illegally and more than 20 people die on a daily basis because of fights and disagreements that involve, or are related to, the drug. Indeed more people die in Brazilian shanty towns per year than in the Palestine – Israeli disagreement or American action in Iraq, to present day. People are even changing their style of life to protect themselves from the violence. The Police, which is very badly structured doesn’t help much. International drug trade, which is obviously illegal, causes millions of deaths. Legalization could remedy the situation as a whole. As marijuana is the most consumed drug, if it were to be legalized the illegal â€Å"passing on of drugs† –drug trade - would be much smaller, resulting in much less violence. Recent research conducted by the Dutch government concluded that, relatively, the Netherlands had less marijuana users that other European nations. This is entirely due to its legality. For as it is legal many people that would use it because it’s illegal, don’t use it. The government as I already stated, would also be profiting with the proposal of legalizing marijuana. If they can gain the money of consumers of marijuana, why give it to theShow MoreRelatedThe Effects Of Drugs On The Field Of Medicine2444 Words   |  10 Pagesmore than 215,000, more than half of which are incarcerated for drug related offenses [Miles, K, 2014]. Which drug you ask? Of the federal prisoners that are incarcerated for drug related offenses, 27% of them are doing time for charges relating to marijuana. This is a drug that is now being used legally in a handful states and being used in a medical capacity in even more. The drug war began in earnest when Congress passed the Boggs Act of 1951 which established harsh sentencing penalties for possessionRead MoreRastafarian79520 Words   |  319 Pagesprior to his passing in 1975 and after. Many believe that Selassie was a dictator and a cruel leader. That he is regarded as God incarnate seems patently absurd. 4. It is not clear whether Selassie believed himself to be a God. 5. For Rastas, marijuana, which is illegal in Jamaica, is a sacrament for worship. 6. Rastas regard western society as part of Babylon—a system and a place that is the enemy of the blacks of the world. FOREWORD ix 7. There is still no organized set of doctrinesRead More_x000C_Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis355457 Words   |  1422 PagesData Analysis Third Edition Roxy Peck California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Chris Olsen George Washington High School, Cedar Rapids, IA Jay Devore California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Australia †¢ Brazil †¢ Canada †¢ Mexico †¢ Singapore †¢ Spain †¢ United Kingdom †¢ United States Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis, Third Edition Roxy Peck, Chris Olsen, Jay Devore Acquisitions Editor: Carolyn Crockett Development Editor: Danielle Derbenti