Charles-the+legalization+of+marijuana

Drugabuse.gove-addictive

Medicalmarijuanaproscon.org-help with nausea

Webmd-pain reliever

drugpolicy.org-most marijuana users never use any other illicit drug

Hort.purdue.edu-hemp can be used for many positive things

Defense.gov-the effects of marijuana depends on the strength, user, etc

Livescience.com-marijuana can impair thinking

mydr.com-loss of inhibition

businessinsider.com-can be harmful to the body and mind

There is a controversy that has been being discussed for a few years now. Should marijuana be legalized for medical and/or recreational uses? It isn’t any worse than alcohol, you can’t over dose on it like many other meds, and it can only benefit the economy. It should be trusted to be used responsibly as other drugs or alcohol.

Have you not heard of all the cases of drunken parents beating their children for no reason? Yet it isn’t nearly as often that something like that happens while the parent is impaired on marijuana. Studies show that marijuana doesn’t cause lung cancer. In fact, the smoking of cannabis contains the carcinogens, preventing cancer from getting worse. The thing about alcohol is that even with moderate drinking It has been proven to cause liver cancer or other liver diseases. If marijuana can condone one of our country’s most wide spread killers, why isn’t it legal, when alcohol, another one of our country’s most deadly, is?

Another conclusion that has been drawn is that one can’t overdose from the use of marijuana, like you can other legal drugs. Doctors prescribe drugs to patients all the time which it causes them to be impaired, kills the kidneys, results in horrid addiction, and worst of all, they may easily overdose. It’s been said marijuana isn’t as addictive as other legal drugs and alcohol. Yes, studies have also been drawn that marijuana affects the brains long and short term memory, causes impairment while high, and injuries have been caused while the person was high. Though alcohol and prescribed drugs are addicting, results in brain and other organ failures, and injuries happen just the same. People still have the choice to do those things.

Marijuana has boosted the economy of Washington and Colorado. It has been set up in a system similar to the purchasing of alcohol: it gets a tax put on it and you have to be 21 years old before you’re able to buy it. The legalization provides people with many job opportunities. It allows businesses to open up, jobs as bud inspectors and curers, farming, and more. States could also place a tax on it which would help with our countries national debt.

Would the legalization of marijuana be that bad? It has medical qualities that can help with nausea, insomnia, pain relief, and more, with less, if not no worse, affects other legal drugs have. The economic factors could be crucial and Americans have the choice to purchase and consume alcohol.