- My Topic Is: the legalization of marijuana
- General Purposes: The general purpose is to show the public that marijuana is not harmful, but helpful
- Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech, the audience will agree that marijuana is not a detriment to society, but something that can end suffering and help people.
- Thesis: While many waste time and money policing marijuana, it is a drug that can end medical suffering and economic crisis.
- Method of Organization: Outline
- Preparation Outline for Speech
Introduction
In recent years, the legalization of marijuana has become a delicate issue. North Carolina and Florida have decriminalized the drug. States like Connecticut, Vermont, and California have legalized the use of medicinal marijuana for patients suffering from physical and psychological ailments. Washington and Colorado also legalized marijuana for medicinal use, only to legalize it for recreational use after seeing its benefits take hold of their populations. Many still believe marijuana is a harmful drug that is worth spending millions of tax dollars on to police. However, states that have decriminalized it, or legalized it for medicinal and recreational purposes are seeing that it is not as harmful as once imagined. While many waste time and money policing marijuana, it is a drug that can end medical suffering and economic crisis.
- Pot helps those suffering from medical ailments
- Induces hunger in those suffering from cancer
- Eases pain in MS sufferers
- Relieves chronic headaches for those with rare conditions, such as cavernous angiomas, that render them unable to take blood thinners.
- In this case, the if the individual takes too much ibuprofen, for example, the tumor in their brain could rupture, and they could die.
- Pot eases the crippling headaches without the individual putting their life at risk.
- Pot literally saves lives.
- Marijuana also helps those suffering from emotional trauma.
- PTSD sufferers find solace in marijuana
- Weed calms anxiety
- Weed also helps depression
- It makes people calm, happy, and sociable
- No side effects, other than hunger and sleepiness.
- Government taxation can put an end to severe economic crisis
- The first day Colorado legalized weed for recreation, they made over $1 million dollars.
- $14 million in the first month.
- Colorado put close to $1 billion toward funding public school after eight months because of the generation of weed sales.
- They are expected to start renovations on streets, schools, museums, and other public structures thanks to the income, generating jobs and tourism.
- All thanks to marijuana.
- A waste to police marijuana.
- Helps those who are suffering, physically and emotionally.
- Generates huge sums of money that are put back into the state, as well as the people.
- Not a harmful drug, but a helpful drug.
In recent years, the legalization of marijuana has become a delicate issue. North Carolina and Florida have decriminalized the drug. States like Connecticut, Vermont, and California have legalized the use of medicinal marijuana for patients suffering from physical and psychological ailments. Washington and Colorado also legalized marijuana for medicinal use, only to legalize it for recreational use after seeing its benefits take hold of their populations. Many still believe marijuana is a harmful drug that is worth spending millions of tax dollars on to police. However, states that have decriminalized it, or legalized it for medicinal and recreational purposes are seeing that it is not as harmful as once imagined. While many waste time and money policing marijuana, it is a drug that can end medical suffering and economic crisis.
Pot, once thought only kill brain cells, is actually quite helpful to those who are suffering. Individuals with cancer are able to gain weight because marijuana makes them hungry. It also helps with pain in those with cancer, multiple sclerosis, and similar diseases. Rare conditions, such as cavernous angiomas, cause life threatening brain hemorrhages that, in turn, cause headaches. If the individual takes too much Ibuprofen, a blood thinner, the individual could hemorrhage and die, but marijuana can end the crippling headaches, literally saving lives.
Marijuana also helps those suffering from emotional distress. PTSD sufferers are often put on a battery of medications that offer harsh side effects. The same can be said for those suffering from anxiety, depression, and a number of other mental illnesses. Marijuana offers a safe, pleasant alternative that allows the individual treatment without harsh side effects. It makes people calm, happy, and more sociable without being aggressive or sad. The only true side effects are increased appetite and sleepiness, which are preferred to the sometimes-dangerous side effects of clinical pharmaceuticals.
Another, very lucrative reason marijuana should be legalized is because government taxation has the power to bring the country out of debt. The first day Colorado legalized weed for recreational use sales exceeded $1 million. Within the first month, they exceeded $14 million. With the funds over the next eight months, Colorado was able to donate $1 billion toward public education. They are expected to begin renovation on public roadways, schools, museums, and other structures in an effort to create jobs and generate tourism. Marijuana is the base for their economic stamina, and every state could be enjoying this kind of success.
In sum, it is a waste of time and money to police something as harmless, and beneficial, as marijuana. The drug helps those who are suffering medically, allowing them to feel better and sometimes saving their lives. It also helps those struggling emotionally to live lives that are more normal. Marijuana also generates enough income to solve severe economic crises and even create jobs. Marijuana is not a harmful drug, but a helpful drug, and something we should all take advantage of for the sake of our future.
