A major factor contributing to the unavailability of legal marijuana is old laws that were informed by faulty information. When marijuana became a Schedule I drug in the 1970’s the studies that led to that classification were inaccurate. “Since the 1970s, advocates of an aggressive drug war have maintained that any liberalization of drug laws would "send the wrong message" to kids and increase adolescent drug use”. At the time scientists believed that alcohol was less dangerous than marijuana and that 's why alcohol was not banned with marijuana. This was backed up by saying marijuana causes insanity and murder.- Drug WarRant. (n.d.). Retrieved November 12, 2015. Though this far from true, it hasn 't changed anything because people are still
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posing a much greater threat than marijuana leading to an estimated 88,000 casualties per year. On the other hand, marijuana has never been the single cause of death. Marijuana affects your heart rate and blood pressure temporarily but you can’t overdose on it like you can with alcohol. So alcohol being easily accessible to adults and even kids is not backing up the reason that a substance should be banned. Alcohol being legal and marijuana not, the laws should be updated to the most recent, accurate evidence rather than remaining untouched.
From malnutrition to death, the effects of alcohol pose a major health risk to anyone who consumes it, especially on a regular basis. Alcohol has become widely accessible making it easy for minors to obtain it. Although alcohol is harmful to anyone despite their age, but the younger users have a larger chance of permanent damage to the body. -NIAAA Publications. (n.d.). Retrieved November 12, 2015. While neither marijuana or alcohol are a good choice for kids consumption, overall marijuana would pose a much smaller …show more content…
This makes people want to do other drugs that don’t show up on tests like synthetics which are very harmful for consumption. A standard urine test looks for only one thing, THC which is the active ingredient found in marijuana anything besides that not detected. The most well known synthetic marijuana replacement is commonly referred to as K2 or spice being up to 100 times as potent as marijuana.
Although alcohol and marijuana both have medicinal purposes, the amount that marijuana has is much larger than alcohol as well as having more positives than negatives. The legalization of marijuana can help with people 's health ranging from preventing seizures to slowing the growth of cancer cells.- “Cannabidiol stops cancer by turning off a gene called Id-1. Control seizures by binding to the brain cells responsible for controlling excitability and regulating relaxation.” Even having it accessible to people with a doctor 's prescription throughout the US could help many people in need.
posing a much greater threat than marijuana leading to an estimated 88,000 casualties per year. On the other hand, marijuana has never been the single cause of death. Marijuana affects your heart rate and blood pressure temporarily but you can’t overdose on it like you can with alcohol. So alcohol being easily accessible to adults and even kids is not backing up the reason that a substance should be banned. Alcohol being legal and marijuana not, the laws should be updated to the most recent, accurate evidence rather than remaining untouched.
From malnutrition to death, the effects of alcohol pose a major health risk to anyone who consumes it, especially on a regular basis. Alcohol has become widely accessible making it easy for minors to obtain it. Although alcohol is harmful to anyone despite their age, but the younger users have a larger chance of permanent damage to the body. -NIAAA Publications. (n.d.). Retrieved November 12, 2015. While neither marijuana or alcohol are a good choice for kids consumption, overall marijuana would pose a much smaller …show more content…
This makes people want to do other drugs that don’t show up on tests like synthetics which are very harmful for consumption. A standard urine test looks for only one thing, THC which is the active ingredient found in marijuana anything besides that not detected. The most well known synthetic marijuana replacement is commonly referred to as K2 or spice being up to 100 times as potent as marijuana.
Although alcohol and marijuana both have medicinal purposes, the amount that marijuana has is much larger than alcohol as well as having more positives than negatives. The legalization of marijuana can help with people 's health ranging from preventing seizures to slowing the growth of cancer cells.- “Cannabidiol stops cancer by turning off a gene called Id-1. Control seizures by binding to the brain cells responsible for controlling excitability and regulating relaxation.” Even having it accessible to people with a doctor 's prescription throughout the US could help many people in need.