Smoking whether it is marijuana or a cigarette affects the body in numerous ways. Between long term effects like cancer to short-term effects like hunger smoking affects the body nonetheless. But which of the two is worse for you? In my opinion marijuana the illegal one of the two is more beneficial and has less harmful side effects than the legal and purchasable cigarette. But lets take a look at some facts about the two and you can make your judgment from there. First we’ll take brief look at the history of the two. The Native Americans once used tobacco for medicinal purposes and was the first cash crop grown for money in North America. It was grown along side other in Jamestown Virginia in the 1800s and was beings used in small amounts
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Then in 1964 the Surgeon general of the U.S. wrote a report explaining the dangers of smoking and that the nicotine and tar in cigarettes causes lung cancer. That being brought to light led to the Cigarette labeling act passed in 1965, which made it so that every pack of cigarettes sold had to have a warning label on them advising that cigarette smoke is not good for your health. Since then tobacco companies have come out with alternatives with lower tar amounts to keep customers fears down and to keep them buying. Something that once was used for medicinal purposes was now a sign for cancer and bad health. Even after all the studies proving cigarette smoke is bad for you its still a legal purchasable substance who use has no real benefit for a …show more content…
Despite them not having any factual basis the rumors would last and lead to laws popping up criminalizing marijuana. By 1914 states had started to past anti-pot laws and by 1937 twenty-seven states passed such laws. Around this time President Roosevelt signed a marijuana tax prohibiting the sale of it unless you had a government stamp basically outlawing it since they never passed any stamps out. A six-year study was also conducted during this period of which the results concluded that marijuana was not a dangerous drug and it did not induce any of the violent or insane affect once associated with the drug. Harry Anslinger the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics destroyed this report and made it impossible to get marijuana to do scientific studies. By 1969 with the help of former president Nixon both he and Anslinger spent over 11 billion dollars on the war to fight a drop that was once used for medicinal applications. But the tides turn in 1972 when anti pot laws were being reversed and then in 1975 former president Jimmy Carter came out publicly for the decriminalization of marijuana. The results of all these laws lock up and money spent is what? It has been said that nearly half of Americans college students have tried marijuana and with applications in
Then in 1964 the Surgeon general of the U.S. wrote a report explaining the dangers of smoking and that the nicotine and tar in cigarettes causes lung cancer. That being brought to light led to the Cigarette labeling act passed in 1965, which made it so that every pack of cigarettes sold had to have a warning label on them advising that cigarette smoke is not good for your health. Since then tobacco companies have come out with alternatives with lower tar amounts to keep customers fears down and to keep them buying. Something that once was used for medicinal purposes was now a sign for cancer and bad health. Even after all the studies proving cigarette smoke is bad for you its still a legal purchasable substance who use has no real benefit for a …show more content…
Despite them not having any factual basis the rumors would last and lead to laws popping up criminalizing marijuana. By 1914 states had started to past anti-pot laws and by 1937 twenty-seven states passed such laws. Around this time President Roosevelt signed a marijuana tax prohibiting the sale of it unless you had a government stamp basically outlawing it since they never passed any stamps out. A six-year study was also conducted during this period of which the results concluded that marijuana was not a dangerous drug and it did not induce any of the violent or insane affect once associated with the drug. Harry Anslinger the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics destroyed this report and made it impossible to get marijuana to do scientific studies. By 1969 with the help of former president Nixon both he and Anslinger spent over 11 billion dollars on the war to fight a drop that was once used for medicinal applications. But the tides turn in 1972 when anti pot laws were being reversed and then in 1975 former president Jimmy Carter came out publicly for the decriminalization of marijuana. The results of all these laws lock up and money spent is what? It has been said that nearly half of Americans college students have tried marijuana and with applications in