Pros And Cons Of Marijuana Research Paper

I will never understand outlawing something that could potentially help millions but was considered dangerous by a few people, that dangerous product is known as marijuana. I personally have never experimented with the plant but have done enough research to determine that this plant should be legal for medicinal purposes only. Some of the dangers of marijuana would be that some people claim you can get addicted to marijuana and that smoking it is dangerous to the user. It is true people use marijuana for recreational purposes, but marijuana has more pros then cons because the medicinal uses help people with all types of diseases and can also be used to bring in money from taxes.
Marijuana was first labeled as a poison in the early 1900’s but was later outlawed in the 1930’s because a product called hemp is grown from the same plant as marijuana. Hemp could be used as …show more content…
People with HIV often at times have nausea and appetite loss and with THC in their system it allows them to eat more, while they are eating their nausea starts to disappear. So this is both a pro and con, people who use marijuana gain an appetite and they could eat more and caused their nausea to vanish. They also wasted the rest of their marijuana for recreational purposes that could have been used to help others with a similar or a different type of disease. If you have extra marijuana just save it until your symptoms start acting up again, don’t go and smoke the rest of it for no purpose. People with HIV are a just a few who can benefit from medicinal