Persuasive Essay Example: Legalizing Medical Marijuana

General Purpose: To persuade the audience to support legalization of marijuana

Specific purpose: To persuade the audience to support legalization of marijuana by explaining to them economic and medicinal value of Cannabis.

Introductory Paragraph:

I. If I were to persuade you guys or one of the students about their opinion about marijuana. The response I expect to get is that it is bad for your health, it is a drug, a weed that change your brain.

II. Most of the people believe that marijuana only have negative effects because it is connected to drug that make people high. Honestly, many people do not know what marijuana is. Today I am present to advice you on the reason why negative perception that people have about marijuana should be abolished once and for all.

III. Points to discuss

Stakeholders Involved in Legalizing Medical Marijuana

The Positive Impact of Marijuana on the Health Sector

Analysis of Driving Fatalities Caused by Marijuana in Colorado From 2006-2014.

Thesis Sentence: Medical Marijuana should be legalized

Body

1. Stakeholders Involved in Legalizing Medical Marijuana

A: Why local Government should support legalization of medical marijuana

Legalization of medical marijuana is beneficial to the economy of the country

Increase tax collection

Save money for the government and the society

The government resources collected from medical marijuana will be used to ensure public safety

B: Why Doctors should support legalization of marijuana

Marijuana extracts could be used to decrease stomach pains and nausea for people with cholera.

legalization of marijuana will enable people to have a better understanding of the effects each type of pot they have

C. Why Cartels should support legalization of medical marijuana

1. Create job opportunities for cartels and gangs involved in the drug business

D. Why the General public should also support legalization of marijuana

1. Reduction in crime rates

2. Create job opportunities

E. The role of doctors when medical marijuana is legalized

1. Ensuring that the consumers are made aware of the marijuana type they are buying and its health benefits

2. Responsible for reassuring their consumers that the drug is safe for consumption and has no harmful side effects.

2. Impact of Marijuana on the Health Sector.

A. Health benefits

1. Reduces nausea in patients undergoing chemotherapy

2. Increase appetite for AIDS patients

3. Used in treating mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder

4. Hemp can also be used to treat severe pain and works more efficiently and safer than narcotic painkillers.

5. Marijuana reduces symptoms of cancer, epilepsy, and chronic disease.

B. Health problems

1. Does not alleviate lung cancer risk but instead overrides the risk of the individual from getting lung and neck cancer

2. Risk of loss of control of the marijuana intake

3. Analysis of Driving Fatalities Caused by Marijuana In Colorado From 2006-2014.

A. Negative results recorded on legalizing marijuana in Colorado From 2006-2014

1. In the year 2006 total state extensive fatalities were five hundred and thirty-five and the casualties were caused by intake of marijuana of about 7.04%

2. In 2007 the total state fatalities were five hundred and fifty-four and it was caused by the same rate 7.04%.

3. In 2008 the total casualties were five hundred, and forty-eight and marijuana accounted for 7.85% of these deaths.

4. In 2009 total fatalities were four hundred and sixty-five and marijuana accounted for 10.10% of these deaths.

5. In 2010 four hundred and fifty deaths were observed and marijuana accounted for 10.89%

6. In 2011 four hundred and forty-seven deaths reported with marijuana accounting for 14.09%.

B. Positive results recorded on legalizing marijuana in Colorado From 2006-2014

1. The prisons have become less congested.

2. The state government laws have been able to focus on more pressing crimes that endanger public safety.

3. Reduce driving fatalities as both do not affect individuals at the same size

4. The state has increased its revenue earned via taxation and the elimination of the black market.

Conclusion

I. In our analysis we examined

Stakeholders Involved in Legalizing Medical Marijuana

The Positive Impact of Marijuana on the Health Sector

Analysis of Driving Fatalities Caused by Marijuana in Colorado from 2006-2014.

II. There are very many medical benefits of legalizing marijuana. Doctors feel that it can be used in helping patients with chronic pain and other health anomalies. They also think that it will help them reduce symptoms of cancer, epilepsy, and chronic disease for different patients. Local and state Government has different opinion. They believe that it will increase the tax revenues by increasing the number of taxpayers. They also assume that it will reduce the burden in prisons. The general public has a feeling that legalizing marijuana can open job opportunities to different people by allowing people to trade in medical marijuana freely.

III. Colorado is one of the states that have legalized medical marijuana. It has experienced both negative and positive effect of legalizing it. It led to death of some users and renders some youth useless members of the society. There were also some positive effect of legalizing marijuana in Colorado, it reduced crime rate, reduced prison congestion and others economic effects.

References

Aydelotte, Jayson D., et al. (2017). Crash Fatality Rates After Recreational Marijuana Legalization in Washington and Colorado American Journal of Public Health.: pp. 1329-1331.

Finlaw, David J. (2014). Marijuana Legalization in Colorado: Learned Lessons. Harvard Law & Policy Review, pp359-380.

Morris, Robert G., et a. (2014). The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime. : Evidence from State Panel Data. pp. 1-7.

Vargo C., (2016). The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana. Clinician Reviews: 40-53.