Modest Proposal - Satire, Irony, and Sarcasm

YOOJIN OH

Daniel Horvath

COMM 1313W 012

11/21/2013

The modest proposal

 

What a respectable policy ‘Let’s Legalize Marijuana’?!

 

My proposal is that we should not support legalizing marijuana, especially for recreational purpose. Nowadays, many Americans have insisted to legalize marijuana. Legalizing marijuana can reduce crime and it allows police to focus on violent crimes! Legalizing marijuana can even increase revenue for state. What a tempting offers?! Supporters of marijuana legalization claim that legalizing marijuana would greatly reduce the burden of America’s prison system on taxpayers. Their main argument takes a distinctly moral slant. Of course crime figures are decreasing dramatically by legalizing marijuana. However, just the opposite is true. It might seem to decrease because legalizing marijuana means disappearing of marijuana prohibition. For example, if we legalize murder, crime will be decrease because murder is not crime anymore. It is nothing more than just showing off to reduce crime statistic. What nonsense is it? Legalizing marijuana cannot reduce crime, but rather it increase marijuana related crime. Then, claiming that legalizing marijuana will bring numerous revenues makes more sense than claiming that it will reduce crime. They expect to get tremendous revenue through the commercialization of marijuana. Of course, legalization of marijuana is a predictable and great source to get profits to government. However, marijuana is the gateway drug. Extending a marijuana market by legalizing marijuana is the same as playing with fire. Why don’t people, who insist to use the expense for finding missing child instead of maintaining marijuana prohibition, consider what message would legalization of marijuana send our children? It is completely irony.