Why Pot Won't Be Legalized

Regarding the longstanding controversy over whether or not pot should be legalized, let’s refer to the same old tired, repetitive arguments.

Anti-legalization
1. If pot were legal, it would open the door for more users, saying ‘it’s ok to use’.
2. Pot is a gateway drug.
3. There are cancer-causing chemicals in marijuana.
4. Marijuana is a drug. It is addicting, it damages motivation, brain cells, causes memory loss…

Here, my list will end, for I haven’t heard many other arguments. Perhaps I haven’t talked to the right people but I will say this. In my ‘active pot smoking days’, I was motivated to write a book, titled ‘Legal Eyes’, and composed of interviews with a number of ‘respectable’ citizens (lawyers, doctors, police officers, even some government officials) stating their opinion on the whole legalizing pot issue. 

This project was abandoned due to frustration that although nearly everyone supported the legalization of marijuana, it was always off the record. Nobody wanted to risk their reputation, it wasn’t worth it. I didn’t hear many reasons at all why pot should stay illegal, yet I did hear many of the same things regarding the pro-legalization.

Pro-legalization
1. As far as ‘opening the door’, a shockingly small number of people would be affected. If they have never tried pot, they wouldn’t try it just because it was legal. (Apparently, the legal status has no part in a person’s decision to try smoking pot.)