Marijuana Laws

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Term Paper Title	Marijuana Laws
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Marijuana laws

The Question we must ask ourselves is Why is a drug that has so many beneficial
uses illegal?
Is it because it leads to Harder drugs, the health problems, the
addictiveness, the
short-term memory impairment, the auto accents or is it simply because politicians.  We
have grown up learning that marijuana is a terrible drug, and that using it gives us brain damage, kill all of our brain cells, and makes us lose our memory.
    The fact is though, that marijuana does not effect us in any of the ways listed above.  The idea that marijuana impairs short-term memory impairment vanish once the user is no longer intoxicated.  Mainly the reason we think marijuana is bad is because that is what the partnership for a drug-free America wants us to believe.  They
tell us that marijuana will cause brain damage and memory impairment, it will kill brain cells, and lead to more crime.  But what they forget to mention is all the benefits we can
receive from legalizing marijuana.  For example, the medical uses, and the textile and
construction uses.
It is very likely that legalizing marijuana would decrease the crime rate, and by legalizing
marijuana we will save a lot of money because we won’t have to spend it on
fighting marijuana as part of the war on drugs.
    There are many habits much worse than marijuana, one example being
cigarette smoking.  Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the us.
Tobacco smokers have 10 times the lung cancer of nonsmokers, twice the heart disease, and are three times more likely to die of heart disease if they develop it.
Does it make
sense that tobacco is legal and marijuana is not,  when so many people die from tobacco
smoking each year and there is not one reported  case of anyone ever dying from marijuana use in its 10,000 years of consumption?  Although marijuana
contains the same
amount of carcinogens as an equal amount of tobacco and more tar, Tobacco is
still worse.
Every year 350,000 Americans die from tobacco-related disease according to the American lung association.  A tobacco smoker consumes much more tobacco than a
marijuana
smoker consumes marijuana.  This is probably because tobacco has a 90%
addiction rate
while marijuana is less addictive than caffeine.  Smoking is much more
dangerous than
marijuana smoking.
    Another bad habit is alcohol, which in my opinion is the worst of all.
8,000 American teenagers are killed each year and 40,000 maimed from dr...

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