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Christa Goodson Professor Blakelock English 2100 13 March 2014 Annotated Bibliography Why isnt marijuana legal everywhere in the United States? Only certain states that legalized marijuana are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. The use for marijuana is for medical use. So why not make marijuana a medical use all over the U.S. The government criticizes marijuana saying its a gateway to more dangerous drugs, however they have legal drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol that are just a dangerous to humans health and could also be a gateway to stronger drugs. If you compare marijuana with other drugs such as alcohol and cigarettes, those drugs as caused the most danger to humans health. There are no records of marijuana causing cancer or any type of danger as it would from alcohol and cigarettes. Another thing that can be compared is energy drinks, which cause trouble in people health. Energy has caused five deaths because of the amount of sugar that is put into those drinks. Alcohol and cigarettes has definitely caused the most deaths in the U.S and probably has the worst reputation over marijuana. People have so many anti-groups against alcohol, cigarettes, and energy drinks. If anything marijuana could help make a profit in the country that could bring a lot of upcoming businesses.

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"If It's Legal: Five Ways Legal Pot Could Affect Your Life." KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2014.

This article list five ways marijuana could affect peoples lives. The topics of the list include: will legal marijuana make police less effective, will cannabis lounges pop up if marijuana is legalized, dueling messages call marijuana benign and risky, how will marijuana products be sold and will they be safe, and will legal marijuana make our roads more dangerous? It helps a lot to answering some of the question thats been on people mind and majority of these question pertain to the economy, and how it might or might not benefit from it. The police will still be effective in the work force because people are still going to cause harm from peoples behavior. Also people are going to start creating lounges just as if they had a bar to make money. As far as messages being created for marijuana will never happen because it mostly going to be anti-marijuana commercials just as they got it for cigarettes.

Ferner, Matt. "Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized: 'Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol' Campaign Discusses Why Pot Prohibition Has Been A Failure." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 28 Aug. 2012. Web. 06 Feb. 2014. This article compares marijuana to alcohol and cigarettes, and how it would produce more jobs and raise millions to rebuild the cities. So as far as comparing the drugs, people are saying if we are promoting people to drink or letting it be legal, why is that marijuana is not legal. We can card 21 year olds or older people for marijuana from stores, like we have for alcohol. It is said that alcohol is one the most toxic and addictive drug than marijuana and causes the most deaths use of alcohol. It also says research shows that marijuana doesnt give people cancer as it would from cigarettes and alcohol.

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Fairchild, Caroline. "Legalizing Marijuana Would Generate Billions In Additional Tax Revenue Annually." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 20 Apr. 2013. Web. 04 Feb.2014. In this article its explaining how the economy will benefit from making marijuana legal. It says that the economy will make millions and be positive revenue on the income tax and sale tax. They would tax marijuana just as much as they tax alcohol and cigarettes. However, they think legal weed will contribute to violence, crime, and social disintegration of the country, but thats something we already have with marijuana being illegal. "Marijuana Policy Project." Marijuana Is Safer: It's Time To Legalize Marijuana and Regulate It Like Alcohol. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2014.

This article actually compares and has statistics from the use of alcohol and marijuana. Alcohol contributes to deaths of people overdosing, long term health problems, violent crimes, and serious injuries. It also says that alcohol is more addictive than marijuana because using alcohol gives people more of a physical withdraw. Alcohol also causes violent and aggressive behavior, whereas marijuana makes people more laid-back and chill. Alcohol also causes domestic violence and sexual assaults. So the point is that we have a legalized drug that causes harm to our society and having a big debate rather marijuana should be legal or not because of the harm it will bring.

Amir, Khan. "Vast Bodies Of Water Underground? Water-Rich Gem May Yield New Discovery." International Science Times. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2014. In this article it talks about how marijuana is not a gateway drug. It talks about how researchers discovered that alcohol is the start of the problem. People that start of drinking at a young age are more likely to use worse drugs when they get older. While it may not settle the

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debate over how drug use begins, researchers found that alcohol, not marijuana, is the gateway drug that leads teens down the path of hard drug use, according to a new study that will be published in the August edition of the Journal of School Health.

"Cigarette Smoking Gateway to Illegal Drug Use." Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. . This article is stating that cigarettes are a gateway drug. People that start out smoking at a

young age end up using stronger drugs such as crack, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs. Cocaine, in either powder or crack form, was the drug most likely to be used among young cigarette smokers. Because the associations decrease with age, the authors said there is an implication that cigarette smoking is a better predictor for illegal drug use in young people. With the numbers of high school-aged smokers increasing over the past decade, the results of the present analysis in fact predict an increase in illegal drug use over the next few decades.

Head, Tom. "8 Reasons Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized." About.com Civil Liberties. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2014. This article lists the eight reasons why marijuana should be legal. The eight reasons are: the government has no right to enforce marijuana laws, enforcement of marijuana laws is racially discriminatory, enforcement of marijuana laws is prohibitively expensive, enforcement of marijuana laws is unnecessarily cruel, marijuana laws impede legitimate criminal justice goals, marijuana laws cannot be consistently enforced, taxing marijuana can be profitable, and alcohol and tobacco, though legal, are far more harmful than marijuana.

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Ferner, Matt. "Even Sugar Is More Harmful Than Marijuana, Americans Say." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 12 Mar. 2014. Web. 13 Mar. 2014. This article talks about alcohol being bad for humans health and not only that, but causes the most deaths. It also compares marijuana and alcohol to sugar from soda drinks and juice, saying that sugar is almost as bad as alcohol if too much is consumed. Sugar causes health issues to people body because of how unhealthy sugar is, and too much consumption of it causes trouble to people to body, such as heart problems and diabetes.

"Monster Energy Drink Deaths and Hospitalizations." Monster Energy Drink Deaths and Hospitalizations. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2014. This article talks about how Energy drinks are just as bad as any other drug. Energy drink have a lot caffeine and sugar in the bottles than juice or coffee. Energy drinks are to help people gain energy throughout the day that are fatigue or very sleepy. However, if people consume to many energy drink it will cause problems to their health such as heart problems, headache, or energy highs. There have been five deaths from people abusing energy drinks, As of October 2012, the FDA said it is investigating five deaths and one nonfatal heart attack after people consumed Monster Energy drinks.