Legalizing Cannabis Research Paper

Cannabis has really been in the spotlight lately, because of the wide spread argument about how cannabis should or shouldn’t be legalized. Looking at the current legalization polices, there are already four states that have legalized cannabis for medical reasons and recreational reasons. There are also several other states that have legalized cannabis for medical reasons only. The one problem that could be possibly stopping New Mexico from making cannabis legal for medical and or recreational use is that there has not been a lot of research done on the effects of cannabis on the body and mind.
The primary reason for there not being many studies on the effect of cannabis is because it is illegal and that brings up different ethical reasons for a study. The more studies that are done on cannabis, this will help people decide if they want cannabis to become legal or stay illegal in New Mexico. The most common age range that is seen using cannabis is around the mid to late adolescences to young adulthood. The hard quantifiable thing to calculate is how much the individual is under the influence of cannabis. This is not as easy as having someone intoxicated and having them blow into a breathalyzer and get a result of how intoxicated they are in minutes. Now looking back at the states that have legalized cannabis for recreational use, they are looking at cannabis to be similar to alcohol and how they will control this substance. The person has to be older than 21 to use cannabis and they should not operate a vehicle when under the influence of cannabis. The person has to be older than …show more content…
I will go into more depth of what cognitive thinking is later, but briefly it is the individuals mental processing of certain thinking functions. This cognitive function is still developing in a teenagers mind and I want to see, like alcohol, if cannabis will affect this in a bad