Our neighbors to the North legalized recreational marijuana. Canada now is the largest nation in the world to do that. In the United States, only nine states allow it but when midterms were around the corner, this was a major issue on the ballot in Michigan and North Dakota. Is nation-wide pot legalization in America’s future as well? Reading Austin Garland’s article, I would say that he believed legalizing marijuana is beneficial to the country’s economy and it would open infinite doors. So, should America follow Canada’s lead on legalizing marijuana? Is it a good idea? In my opinion, a quick answer for that is no, and the country would be sorry. Fortunately, we have a crystal ball in this case because we can look five years later at what happened in Colorado for instance, which legalized marijuana. By every metric, it was a failure; teen drug use is the highest in the country; drug driving is off the charge, doubled with marijuana-impaired driving; homelessness is up; emergency room and missions; and the black market is flourishing. Most people are for medical marijuana. It is when it is recreational. There was a poll on whether recreational marijuana should be legal in the U.S. or not.. 62% said yes and 34% said no it shouldn’t. President Trump moved forward with an entire new agenda, focusing on treatment and prescription of legal opioids because it leads to addiction. Why would we introduce, recreationally, a brand new drug and open the floodgates, particularly to young people? Legalizing marijuana will let big marijuana be what big tobacco is today.
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