Moral Conflict on Investing in Marijuana

The legalization medical marijuana is a growing issue in the U.S. Marijuana is legal or medically tolerated in about half of U.S states and starting to be a possible profitable investment to investors. Weed has its own moral convictions and whether you are against it or not it is making money, that catches the eyes of investors. Investors are investing to make money but some investors that invest into marijuana don't necessarily agree with it, is it wrong? If you think something is wrong you shouldn't support it, if you don't mind marijuana then you should have no convictions investing in it. There are some things that you strongly disagree with and some things that you just somewhat don't agree with me personally I would invest in something that I don't agree with if it makes me money. If there was something I strongly disagreed with I would not invest, because I don't support it. People are in it for the money.

Charlie Hebdo

On January 7^th 2015 the magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked my Muslim extremist resulting with 11 of the Charlie Hebdo editors killed and also a policeman when the gunman fled the building. The reason the Muslim extremist acted in this was the previous post by the magazine making fun of their prophet Muhammad which they took great offense to. They did this trying to put fear in the heart of the people and stop the offensive cartoons, their goal was not accomplished. 5 days after the attach Charlie Hebdo responded with a cartoon of Muhammad holding a sign that reads "Je suis charlie" which means, I am Charlie. They took a stand against terrorism and pretty much said we will not lay down and let you win we will fight for freedom. On a everyday magazine they will publish 60,000 and sell about 25,000 to 30,000, but of their most recent cartoon the one in response to that attack they published 3 million and sold out in one day. The way terrorism wins is by people being scared and quiting so if we take a global stand and fight against them they will lose 

Oil prices

Recently gas prices have dropped roughly 50% in the past few months. This is a big break for the hard working American, gas going from around $4.oo to a national average of $2.20 is a big deal. Most people think that only good can come out of this recent drop in gas prices. In the 2008-09 financial collapse oil prices went from $100 a barrel to $40 a barrel in just a few months. This is the last time that oil prices have been this low. So this could be dangerous for our nation’s economy. Also with the drop in oil prices there has arose another problem in the oil industries, layoffs. Thousands of workers are being let g because of the drop in oil prices. So there are positives and negatives to this dramatic drop in oil prices. OPEC is an oil organization which Saudi Arabia (second largest producer of oil) belongs too along with several other countries. Oil prices is globally going down in the past few years the US has been going for hard to get oil and that combined with OPECs continuation of oil production and Europe and Asia’s decline of oil petroleum use has caused a price crash. The supply of oil is greater than the demand therefore resulting in the sudden drop in prices. Usually OPEC would slow down production balancing out the prices but they are not doing that this time. There are hoping that this drop in prices will make the newer producers of oil unprofitable and have to close down leaving them with more control of the oil industry. If gas stays under $2.50 that will be $1,100 in savings per year for the average family, this will boost our economy. So for the everyday American this drop in gas prices is good but could be dangerous because of the possibility of the financial collapse. For certain oil companies in the US this could not be a very good situation.