Literature
Decriminalization of marijuana will expose the lives of the people to greater risk after showing that it lacks substantive medicinal value and will only encourage the possibility of drug abuse. Based on the report of Dupont (2010), studies have shown that in 2008, 4.2 million people from the 7 million population in the U.S. between the ages 12 and higher have been identified as dependents of marijuana. This is a confirmation that 2/3 of the American population are suffering from marijuana abuse (DuPont, 2010).
According to Buckner, Heimberg, Matthews & Silgado (2012, p. 151) one third of America’s population ...