A Drug War Truce

Tim Dickerson's, Jun. 2009, article points out both of the sides of the ever growing drug war. This article explains how there are good as well as bad outcomes if marijuana is indeed legalized. Dickerson explains that if the President does indeed accept the proposition of both Sen. Jim Webb and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger then there will be a rise in national funds because of the tax that would be implemented on the sales of marijuana. Even thought the "dark side" of all that would be that there would be even more introduction of many more drugs which are not sold as much or do not have the same amount of profit as marijuana. There would be even more problems with teenage drug abuse just as there is problems with teenage drinking and smoking. The probability that teenagers would begin to abuse of marijuana more than how it is abused of today is high and that is what Dickerson is pointing out in this article.



Would there actually be a good thing coming from legalizing marijuana?



http://www.rollinstone.com/politics/story/28600327/a-drug-war-truce/1