America and marijuana economy

There is heated debate going on through out American continent, lets legalize marijuana proponents of this claim put forward reasons such as

* Reduction in drug related violence
* Better medical heath care
* Tax stimulation to the county, state and country
* Job opportunities for impoverished families
* Reduction in Drug Cartel related violence and drug cartel income citing prohibition example
* Reduction in Non-violent drug offenders in jail saving huge tax dollars
Pro-pot blogs

Dan Sweeney
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/taking-the-pro-pot-positi_b_179653.html
Jim Gilliam
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-gilliam/pot-saved-my-life-mr-pres_b_179585.html

Opponents argue
* Increase in violence just like drunk driving is side effect of lifting prohibition
* Increase in delinquencies in children when they buy marijuana from their fav coffee shop
* Increase in violent crimes related to marijuana
* Youth will be destroyed bad example
* Chaos in society etc...

Even if Jim Gilliam's life had been saved by marijuana based medicine it does not mean
That it is a healthy for rest of America. Even though Marinol saved his life that doesn’t mean that whole country should be freely using limited version of marijuana. Proponents argue that those who want marijuana they ultimately have it by hook or by crook then why not earn tax dollars on it. However in my counter argument those people who are unaware of this vice will at least be saved from Desire of “trying it out ". However Chris weigant (chrisweigant.com) argues on huffingtonpost that although marijuana based drugs are allowed in 25% of American states

From wikipedia: List of schedule I drugs

This is a list of Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act for the United States. Required findings for drugs to be placed in this schedule:

1. The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
2. The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
3. There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.


This is a list of Schedule II drugs under the Controlled Substances Act for the United States. Required findings for drugs to be placed in this schedule:

1. The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
2. The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.
3. Abuse of the drug or other substances may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.


Then why it is not schedule II drug and its still schedule I drug, he further argues that since Obama decided to place science in its rightful place then why doesn’t he allow marijuana to become schedule II drug. My argument is why do you need rescheduling your drug under different category what will it symbolize that marijuana is more family friendly. I think marijuana has long history of abuse and just
as meth and other medical drugs are abused by kids from their grandparent's medicine box i foresee a difficult task for the authorities to control already grey area for prescription abuse.....What people are proponent are is the free use of marijuana not the drug based marijuana. So if the US govt is already allowing free use of marijuana based drugs why are people pushing the envelope for legalizing sale of retail marijuana in coffee shop......there are much better to take economy on high then Marijuana