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In the article " Legalizing Marijuana Under Federal Law for a Prosperous Economy " written by my fellow classmate Austin Smith he discusses the current status of marijuana legalization and the issues faced by the fact that cannabis is still illegal under federal law. Austin touches on key factors like the fact that many banks still won't accept profits from legal marijuana shops and that congress has failed to make any major changes to legislation to decriminalize cannabis. Public support for marijuana legalization is at an all time high with just over sixty percent of Americans in favor of legalizing cannabis use. With such a large majority of US citizens endorsing legalizing marijuana there seems to be little to no changes being made to decriminalize its status. The benefits of legalizing pot, providing more jobs, increasing net growth in the economy, less misdemeanor drug offenders in prison, and the many medicinal properties many people r...

If growing up in Texas has taught me anything it’s that Americans, especially the South, love their guns. Not only do we love our constitutionally given freedom to bear arms but we take pride in it. We host gun shows, and take our families to the shooting ranges. Guns have become venerated in this country. They are the new religion. We are no longer “one nation under God”, we now stand united as “one nation, under guns”.  The United States owns about half the entire world’s gun supply while only taking up about 5% of its population, that means there’s about one gun per every citizen of the us. Gun owners purchase their firearms for varying reasons such as for protection or for collecting, but the issue is with people who purchase firearms with the intention of harming others. Not surprisingly our nation leading the world in gun ownership correlates to its citizens being 10 times more likely to be killed by guns than people in other developed countries. This shouldn’t come a...