Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Medicine and Health, grade: A, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: The question of whether to legalize marijuana or not in America has continued to draw mixed reactions from various people, while some agree, other disagree. Though Congress passed a law in 1937 to outlaw smoking and possession of marijuana in America, millions of America still smokes marijuana. There are a number of reasons that marijuana smokers' site as to why they continue to smoke marijuana. Yet, the government when outlawing marijuana also gave its own reasons, but it seems to have failed. As observed by Gettman despite of a lot of efforts to eradicate domestic marijuana, "production of marijuana has been on a steady increase over time. Since outlawing marijuana has not achieved its desired objectives, time has come to change this law. This research paper thus seeks to review this issue by proposing that marijuana should be legalized.