Many of my colleagues will disagree, but I believe that the time is right to legalize marijuana. Yes, this is a hot-button issue; however, there are good reasons why the growing and selling of marijuana should no longer be a criminal offense in the United States.
First, the federal government needs money. A lot of money! The federal deficit is now running into the trillions. Where is the tax money going to come from to pay off this massive debt? Marijuana. According to Business Week Magazine, “if the cost of retailing and distributing marijuana is the same for cigarettes, then the taxes from marijuana would be approximately $40 to $100 billion per year.” As you can see, marijuana would be an excellent source of tax revenue to help pay off the national debt.
A new source of tax revenue is not the only benefit of legalizing marijuana. Once marijuana is legalized, the crime rate will dramatically drop. By reducing marijuana related-crimes, state and national police agencies, for example, will be able to focus their limited resources on other crimes such as border security and terrorism. Let’s face it, the so-called “War on Drugs” has been a dismal failure. Isn’t it time to wake up to the fact that marijuana is here to stay?
Finally, there is the issue of choice. If I have the right to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes, why shouldn’t I have the right to smoke marijuana? The Constitution clearly states that every American has the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” According to the Constitution, I have the right to enjoy marijuana just like many enjoy alcohol and tobacco. And if marijuana kills me, just like alcohol and tobacco kill millions every year, that is my right and my choice too. By legalizing marijuana, this double standard will end.
The article states that legalizing marijuana benefits not only people but also the federal government. It provides three reasons of support. The lecturer, however, rebuts this idea by saying that these claims are the same old ones, and opposes all the author's reasons.
First, the reading asserts that the federal government needs money and now it has an anormous deficit. By legalizing marijuana, there is a chance of taxation of mariujana which brings up to 100 billion dollars for them. On the other hand, the professor repudiates this opinion by explaining that this number is not correct. She mentions that it is correct that taxation will add the government revenue but this number sounds huge. She says that it is a misinformation. Finally, she suggests that it is better that govenment add more tax on gasoline witch majority of folks are used not a minority of drug users.
Second, the article claims that with leaglizing marijuana the crime rate will drop dramatically, and the police have more resources to control borders and fight against terrorism. Conversely, the speaker says that it won't happen at all. She mentions that with this legalization too much money will disapear from drug dealers and cartels. In additin, police should spend resources to control marijuana production and distribution. Based on her assertion, this approach will produce new violances in the countries that marijuana produced and send to U.S..
Third, the article avers that based on the U.S. constitution everybody has the right to choose their lifestyle. It asserts that like cigarette and alcohol, marijuana should be free. If anybody wants to harm themselves it is theri own option. On the contrary, the professor refuts this by mentioning that it is correct that if a person want kill himself, he can, but we should not encourage him. She adds that now we have many problems with drug and prescriptions addicts. She says that this legalization is like pouring the gasoline on fire.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, finally, first, however, if, second, so, third, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 22.412803532 232% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1657.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 326.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08282208589 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67781572423 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.564417177914 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 505.8 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 13.0662251656 153% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.3583209183 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.85 110.228320801 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 7.06452816374 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 4.19205298013 119% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177673618302 0.272083759551 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509952322346 0.0996497079465 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0405177504154 0.0662205650399 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107077611276 0.162205337803 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0267253825731 0.0443174109184 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 13.3589403974 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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