Should Marijuana be Legalized in Nepal?

Marijuana also known as cannabis is a herb of greenish-gray mixture of dried flowers of Cannabis sativa. Some people smoke marijuana like cigarettes. Marijuana is used in various things like brewing tea, medicinal purposes, sometimes mixed into foods which are edibles such as brownies, cookies, or candies whereas strong form of marijuana is used in ingredients like honeylike hash oil, waxy budder, and hard amberlike shatter (National Institute in Drug Abuse (Advancing Addiction Science), 2018).

People are changing their perception about cannabis. Current generation people are turning away from prohibition and penalties in favor of legalization. Uruguay is the first country to legalize the marijuana for its multiple uses in different sectors. Similarly, Canada also allowed the sale of weed for the recreational use in October,2017. In U.S and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational pot and also allowing about a quarter of Americans to consume it freely. Advocates of legalization say that consuming marijuana is safer than consuming alcohol. They include bringing weed would allow for better monitoring of the industry and increase state tax revenue as well. Thus, in America 65% of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal according to Gallup poll from October,2017 (Giammona, 2018).

Various debate was conducted regarding the legalization of weed as there were many views and ideas in their own perspective. Many arguments happened from a medical perspective or political perspective or economical perspective but at the last stage it always ends up with whether Federal Government should be our dictators or we should be responsible for our own actions. The Canadian medical Association Journal reports successful use of medical marijuana. For instance, Jean Charles who was an AIDS patient has to consume to his legally prescribed medicines to get cured from his disease but the legally prescribed medicines were not enough to cure his disease and he was at the verge of dying because of failing to store food and medicines in his system. His condition was getting even worse as he was completely bed ridden, weighed only 82 pounds. But after the use of medicines contained of marijuana, he was able to digest his medicines. HIV has been repressed because of his improved immune function and can now walk again and also has put on weight. Similarly, marijuana helps in suppression of expansion or development of diseases like HIV, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, Glaucoma, Epilepsy, and many other disorders that affect millions of people not only in Nepal but in whole wide world. Similarly, the flowers of the cannabis plant were used to relieve menstrual disorders and open wounds while the seeds are used for internal use of post- partum difficulties, aconite poisoning, vermillion poisoning, constipation, and obstinate vomiting. As people of Nepal suffers from these kinds of diseases, it should think regarding legalization of marijuana in Nepal (Crocker, 2011).

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Many people, specially people of Nepal has been using legal pharmaceuticals such as pain-killer that is derived from opium, or ketamine. Both of these legal drugs are easily available in any kind of pharmacies and these prescribed drugs are massively abused recreationally and also are highly addictive which leads to myriad of damaging short and long-term side- effects and has high chance of fatality in those that continue its use. These facts suggest that it is legal because of its easy taxation whereas, marijuana has been home-grown and is a sturdy plant and also is easy to grow (Crocker, 2011).

Marijuana similarly have many others advantages to be legalized in Nepal. Many studies show that marijuana is not very harmful in the perspective of medicinal effects as it helps to relief the pain for cancer and other chronic diseases until it is used extremely or excessively. Since extreme consumption of alcohol and tobacco can cause cancer, yet we have no such cases of people dying from the consumption of marijuana. Another thing is that making marijuana illegal in Nepal hasn’t worked. Worldwide drug consumption is increasing despite of it being illegal. Lots of criminal activities are increasing in case of selling marijuana illegally in Nepal and its consumption is increasing in a very rapid base in Nepal. Talking about the facts, US did make Alcohol consumption illegal in 1919, but then the consumption of alcohol didn’t decrease in any case instead it created a lot of crimes by selling illegal alcohol, same is the case with drug trade. Another advantage of making marijuana legalized in Nepal is that, it will raise the amount of revenue of the government by imposing tax in the product. It will help in the expansion of the market like alcohol and tobacco. Making marijuana illegal hasn’t reduced its usage. For instance, few countries like US, Canada and Netherlands has done better regulations of marijuana, tax them instead of giving money to criminals and involving the farmers as well (Karki, 2017).

To sum up everything, medicinal or recreational use of marijuana helps to solve many medicinal issues and it mainly helps the government to earn revenue by imposing tax on the product. This is something that has been pushed down the government priority list for many years and needs to be taken seriously as the very nature of our democracy is at stake over this.

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