Drug Abuse Act of 1988

This letter is to let you know about a problem that affects my community in Texas, waiting for a solution that will help us. I am living in Texas and have seen this problem for a long time. The problem is about marijuana, specifically about the legalization. There is evidence that marijuana use does not cause health or safety risks.

The legalization of marijuana, the possibility of regulating its trade and production have been discussed as part of a strategy to combat organized crime that is dedicated to its commercialization. We will point out some positive and negative aspects that involve the regulation of sale, production, and sowing. In the United States, 58% of the 50 states have legalized marijuana. The last month more people support the legalization of marijuana in the whole country going from 61%, while a year earlier the figure was 57%. Since the legalization of marijuana in Colorado shows that its use has been regulated, it has produced a moderate drop: it has gone from 40.2% in 2018 to 37.5% in 2019.

The legalization of marijuana is the economic boom in other states a market full of small and large companies has been generated, the most important thing from the legislator's point of view: allowing a significant collection of taxes. Texas needs a higher income for its population to have a better quality of life.

There is a fund that supports an adjustment in the law to make it a civil, rather than a criminal, crime so that adults who possess a small amount of marijuana, approximately one ounce for medicinal or recreational use, receive a penalty of less than A $ 100 well without the need to go to jail. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1974 says that mandatory penalties for crimes related to the sale of drugs and marijuana are explicitly differentiated from harder drugs. They appoint a special commission to carefully analyze marijuana. In 1969, Operation Interception demonstrated that it was difficult to seal the Mexican border, but despite this, efforts to improve border surveillance and penetrate drug trafficking networks have continued. In 1994, after a fight involving a marijuana user, the El Paso, Texas city government passed the first law on the illegality of marijuana, this law says that a drug that had been used legally is prohibited. Other cities and states also did the same. Over time, marijuana was banned in many parts, and its use was punishable by law either by fine or by jail. In 1980, even when millions of people refused to follow the warning not to use drugs and that is why Congress passed a series of anti-drug measures, including the Drug Abuse Act of 1988.

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