According to Big Jolly Politics the article “A Warning for Those
Who Favor Decriminalizing or Legalizing Marijuana” by Guest, talks about how
those states that have legalized marijuana have had an increase in highway
crash fatalities. Guest states that “In Colorado, according to the GHSA
report, marijuana-related traffic deaths increased by 48 percent after the
state legalized recreational use of the drug.” However, the report doesn’t say
if the driver was just on recreational marijuana while they had the car incident
or if they were on some other substances that could have caused the driver to
get into the crash incident. Until they can test that the driver was only on
the effect of recreational marijuana then they can claim it to be a major
leading factor to highway crash fatalities. About a week ago I wrote a blog on
how the remaining states should finally legalize recreational marijuana,
because it could bring some good. It can help with medical research as to even
reducing crime. While the few states that have approved to legalized marijuana
this topic is still relevantly new to them. It hasn’t been approved for too
long for them to actually conclude that since it’s approval its been nothing
but chaotic. This issue is still fresh and they will have to test and figure
out if recreational marijuana is bad for the people.
Overall, I believe Guest commentary on recreational marijuana is
written on sided, its only viewed on the negative side towards it. The whole
article talked about how bad it’s been since the approval of it it’s been
nothing but chaotic and tragic. It does not say anything of the good that it
has brought to the states. I would have liked the writer to have written about
both sides and then finally making up his mind about recreational marijuana.
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