That day when I was commuting home, there was a person next to me who greatly smelled like marijuana and it was really nauseating for me. I grew up not liking the smell of cigarettes because I understood the consequences of it (my brother and I would always run when we smelled that smoke). That’s why I had always begged my dad to stop smoking when I saw him hanging out with his friends. That same friend now still smokes when he has his own child, which is unfortunate and I understand these addictions and habits are hard to break and that rehab is pretty useless in some cases, but still I wish tobacco and marijuana wasn’t something people smoked. I wish it wasn’t something easy to become addicted to. I guess that’s where legalizing and regulation comes in.

                                                      (the clouds are supposed to resemble smoke)

People say that marijuana will only become accessible when legalized, but I imagine that there will be more laws in place to prevent easy access to unwarranted addictions. However, after the regulation is placed, what happens to the people who need their fix and are outright refused for it. Should they be forced into rehab or just left to suffer? Maybe before setting these laws, we should look into why these addictions happen, perhaps because of poverty or simply mixed into a group of people who smoke and try to prevent these situations from happening. It’s a very complicated situation since it involves so many aspects if regulation were to be implemented, which is why it shouldn’t be enforced without any thought behind the whole process.