How Do Marijuana Kill Persuasive Essay

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Briana Ramirez
Drugs&behavior245
Ms. Lewellen
11/13/15

Marijuana doesn't kill

Once marijuana is heard or even talked about its all judged as if it's a terrible thing and Ito. can be dangerous to the human brain also that it can have some affects that hurt us in the long run of ones life that is a user. We as humans tend to over see the good in the bad of marijuana just because you can't go out to the store and buy weed it's automatically bad and if one is using then they are looked at as a criminal but when someone is buying cigarettes and alcohol and even a cup of coffee every morning they are less judged and looked at as someone with an appropriate age to make there own life choices in buying what they wish because it's legal and with marijuana is the total opposite and is being judged for not being legal in some states.Marijuana is just
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epilepsy can be treated with marijuana so more than 100 families have moved to a state like Colorado to access “charlottes web” which is a cannabis strain that in some epileptic children seem to lessen the seizures that they have daily it helps because that particular weed they get is high in cbd and very low in thc which is what makes people get high so that effect is eliminated for the child it is not smoked but it's in a form of oil for the

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