Argumentative Essay: Should Marijuana Be Legal?

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Should Marijuana be legal?

“THC triggers your brain to release large amounts of dopamine, a naturally occurring “feel good” chemical.” from healthline.com.Marijuana is a drug that takes you to a happy place opposing ridiculous actions such as those from drugs like “bath salt”. Like all drugs, marijuana has side effects but so does the drug nicotine that is inside of a cigarette.” Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana.” according to aclu.org so this is clearly a way to enforce systemic racism through the black community and also a free pass to law enforcement to take advantage of people with a skin color that is not theirs. Marijuana should be legal because it makes
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This does not encourage or influence belligerent behavior and basically takes you to your so-called “happy place”. While marijuana is a happy drug, drugs like Flakka(bath salt) have famous cases such as the man who stabbed a married couple to death and also ate a male's face off. This drug obviously should be illegal “since it's 10 times more powerful than coke” according to rollingstone.com.Drugs that have immediate mind-altering effects to the user and people around them should be illegal, but beside the long term effects and short term side effects of marijuana, it should be legal. Overall it is not an overly harmful drug such as heroin,cocaine,or as previously stated, flak ka. Marijuana and cigarettes are basically one in the same when it comes to long term effects and short term side effects, so why can't it be …show more content…
“We caution the public against smoking marijuana because of the risks it poses to lung health.” according to lung.org (American Lung Association).”Whether from burning wood, tobacco or marijuana, toxins and carcinogens are released from the combustion of materials “Smoking is bad for your health without a debate “More research is needed into the effects of marijuana on health, especially lung health. “also from lung.org.Cigarettes were sold and have been sold before we knew the effects that they had on our bodies and now that we know that they are horrible for our health we still have them legal for sale in probably every convenient mart in the United States. If we've done it once then why are we putting our fellow citizens in jail for a substance that's effects are still unknown and research is still in its

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