The Positives of Legalizing Marijuana
If Americans allow such a thing as alcohol to be legal, even with the obvious physical, mental and numerous other problems it causes, there is no reason marijuana should be illegal. About 20,000 people die each year from the use of alcohol, excluding car accidents. There are more deaths cause by aspirin, caffeine, and prescription drugs, than marijuana who‘s number totals to about 5 over a period of 4 years. The marijuana prohibition created in 1937 is extremely outdated. Scientists have never been able to induce an overdose from marijuana on laboratory animals. They were able to tolerate doses of up to 1,000 mg. The Deaths that have been recorded to be the results of marijuana usage were later closely examined and found to actually have been caused by choking on vomit which was not directly credited to the drug. A John Hopkins study done over a fifteen year period has concluded that there were no long-term effects on cognitive skills or actual intelligence in users who smoked about five joints a week. Though most obviously, Americans have no problem with tobacco, alcohol, oxy-cotton, codeine, and many other harmful substances being legally obtained. So why would the legalization of marijuana be any more harmful? Many religions …show more content…
The use of it personally should be the decision of the individual who should simply be informed of the risks. The fact that many sick people cannot obtain the useful drug is cruelty on behalf of the U.S. government. Americans need to be made aware of the possibilities of the industrial uses that is crop holds. It will be no more of a “problem” to the government than they already consider it to be, and if it was allowed to be grown legally they would benefit far more from the taxes they would receive in comparison to how much money is spent on the “war on
If Americans allow such a thing as alcohol to be legal, even with the obvious physical, mental and numerous other problems it causes, there is no reason marijuana should be illegal. About 20,000 people die each year from the use of alcohol, excluding car accidents. There are more deaths cause by aspirin, caffeine, and prescription drugs, than marijuana who‘s number totals to about 5 over a period of 4 years. The marijuana prohibition created in 1937 is extremely outdated. Scientists have never been able to induce an overdose from marijuana on laboratory animals. They were able to tolerate doses of up to 1,000 mg. The Deaths that have been recorded to be the results of marijuana usage were later closely examined and found to actually have been caused by choking on vomit which was not directly credited to the drug. A John Hopkins study done over a fifteen year period has concluded that there were no long-term effects on cognitive skills or actual intelligence in users who smoked about five joints a week. Though most obviously, Americans have no problem with tobacco, alcohol, oxy-cotton, codeine, and many other harmful substances being legally obtained. So why would the legalization of marijuana be any more harmful? Many religions …show more content…
The use of it personally should be the decision of the individual who should simply be informed of the risks. The fact that many sick people cannot obtain the useful drug is cruelty on behalf of the U.S. government. Americans need to be made aware of the possibilities of the industrial uses that is crop holds. It will be no more of a “problem” to the government than they already consider it to be, and if it was allowed to be grown legally they would benefit far more from the taxes they would receive in comparison to how much money is spent on the “war on