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¶ … legalization marijuana. Your written proposal include elements listed address considerations: •An analysis public policy criminal justice interrelate. •Why feel social change relevant criminal justice system important policy initiate foster change improvement.
There has been much controversy regarding the legalization of marijuana in recent years, as its number of supporters has increased directly proportional to the number of individuals opposing it. When considering matters from a perspective involving public policy, the legalization of marijuana is going to cause increased marijuana use. Consuming more marijuana can lead to people's health being negatively affected but it can also generated more revenue for the government as a result of taxes. Even with this, the fact that governments would gain control over marijuana sales would mean that they would be able to control the amounts that people use as a result of introducing more or less harsh taxes. Education would make the difference between a public that opposes legalization on account of what they hear from others and a public that actually wants to oppose legalization.
The legalization of marijuana currently stands as a social issue, with the masses having mixed opinions regarding the topic and with a series of forces continuing to stand in the way of a society...
Recent historic events such as the 1960s and the 1980s have played an important role in shaping public opinion concerning marijuana. Individuals in the 1990s and in the first decade of the 21st century have adopted more conservative attitudes with regard to cannabis.
Even with the fact that legalization has recently seen an increasing amount of support, it is yet to have gathered as much supporters as the opposition. In order for people to gain a more complex understanding of the effects that legalization would have, society as a whole needs to focus on educational strategies. "Whether opinion swings toward more robust support for legalization will depend heavily on the perceived success of the state legalization experiments now under way -- which will hinge in part on the federal response to those experiments." (Galstone & Dionne) The authorities largely have control of the situation and it is safe to say that they are in charge of shaping public opinion. As long as they are hesitant about legalizing the substance they are not going to enable the masses to comprehend why it would be beneficial for the world in general to have access to marijuana through legal means.
Individuals in the contemporary society can gain possession of marijuana without it being legalized. This exposes people to a criminal environment and encourages criminal organizations to get actively involved in producing and trafficking marijuana. The…
Fox, S., Armentano, P., & Tvert, M. (2009). Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?. Chelsea Green Publishing.
Galston, W.A. & Dionne, E.J. "The New Politics of Marijuana Legalization: Why Opinion is Changing," Retrieved September 9, 2013, from http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/05/29-politics-marijuana-legalization-galston-dionne
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Legalizing marijuana would actually allow authorities to focus on some of society's most severe problems, as they would no longer have to invest significant resources into punishing petty marijuana users. Considering the difficulties related to criminalizing marijuana, it only seems natural for the government to want to do everything in its power to have it legalized, as penalizing marijuana offenders costs society enormous resources, particularly given that the number of
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