Some people
believe that marijuana should not be legalized but many others – including
myself – disagree. Marijuana may once have been used only as a recreational
drug, but approximately 2.6 million Americans use it for its medicals benefits.
These users suffer from many chronic disease and illness such as arthritis,
bipolar disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, and even some AIDS related illnesses. If
this were a medical solution for someone, would it be ethical to take it away?
Do we want these people to endure this pain?
I suffer
from severe anxiety and have my entire life. Ever since I was a child,
psychiatrist after psychiatrist tried to find ways to help me cope or find
medications I could take. Nothing worked for me until I tried marijuana. Using
marijuana daily helped my anxiety levels go down, making it easier to live my
day-to-day life. I don’t want other people to have to go through the daily
challenges I had to, and by legalizing marijuana, few will have to. Marijuana
isn’t a dangerous drug, yet it is illegal. Pharmaceuticals such as Xanax are
legal but are causing a huge epidemic amongst teens for its recreational use.
More dangerous drugs are out there that are legal.
Some of
Zinsser’s teachings I used from chapter 10 in his books include contractions,
the use of the dash, and pruning out little qualifiers. I used contractions to
simplify phrases like “is not” to “isn’t” to help make the flow of my sentence smoother.
I used a dash to break up my sentence and add my opinion in a clear way but
also so that it would still make my sentence without what’s in the dash
appropriate. Lastly I pruned out little qualifying words like “quite” from
phrases like “I suffer from quite sever anxiety”, to help and get rid of unnecessary
words and clutter.
