Marijuana Persuasive Speech

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“Don’t hate the addict, hate the disease. Don’t hate the person, hate the behaviour. If it’s hard to watch it, imagine how hard it must be to live it.” Many individuals have an addiction to alcohol, gambling, tobacco, and shopping. Despite the fact, people still think that marijuana is not a drug and just a leaf from God, according to doctors and their clients. Meanwhile, Canadian doctors are concerned about marijuana becoming legalized, due to addiction, mental illness, driving while high and the developing brain. People don’t truly understand how marijuana could affect them because people trust their doctors more than the consequences addiction has. Marijuana is just as addicting as everything else in today’s society. “Due to this fact, about 9% of marijuana users become clinically dependant on it …show more content…
how can it affect you? Marijuana is also known as, weed, pot, herb, grass, and Mary Jane are all examples of what people like to call marijuana on streets. Most people like to smoke marijuana in hand-rolled cigarettes called joints; in pipes, water pipes or in blunts. Marijuana can be used in baked goods, like cookies or candies, they are purposely mixed into foods for a reason. In many places, marijuana can be used anywhere and anytime, even when it’s still illegal. Marijuana contains many high dose ingredients like honey- like hash oil, waxy budder, and hard amberlike shatter, these ingredients in marijuana are very popular, even in medical and recreational marijuana. For many various reasons marijuana can affect people. “More than 1 in 3 people in America have tried marijuana at one point in their lives.” Smoking pot (marijuana) could increase anybody's heart rate as much as two times for up to 3 hours straight. Due to this many people may gradually overtime get a heart attack subsequently when they take marijuana. Even if it is medical marijuana, it could still be harmful and have the same effect as recreational

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