Benefits Of Legalizing Marijuana

Legalizing cannabis is a very sensitive subject, some people believe it is the main gateway drug and it kills brain cells making people slow, others think it can be used as a medicine and that it does no harm to the body. In this essay I'm going to show the good sides and bad sides of legalizing recreational and medicinal marijuana. Like everything in the world, marijuana also has disadvantages when not taken in a moderate amount for example: psychological dependence(Difficulty sleeping without the drug), dementia, schizophrenia, but these last two symptoms only develop at an older age. The main problem with cannabis is when consumed at young age it heavily affects the development of the brain, causing short term memory loss but the effects

“your body already makes marijuana-like chemicals that affect pain, inflammation, and many other processes. Marijuana can sometimes help those natural chemicals work better”, says Laura Borgelt, a researcher from the university of Colorado. Medicinal marijuana is often used in chemotherapy in order to prevent some highly stressful side effects (such as vomiting, nausea, pain…). Fortunately the cannabis contribution to the medical world does not end here, it is also used in stopping seizures caused by epilepsy and also help to treat appetite loss caused by HIV/aids. Generally this drug is consumed by smoking, but there are many ways of consuming such as: Vaporizing ( heating until active ingredients are released without burning the plant), Eating (usually in form of biscuits or sweets) and the most common amongst patients that require medical cannabis is liquid extract. Marijuana is safer in fact than most other prescribed medications used to treat the same symptoms, as multiple studies have shown that around 27 000 people are recorded to die every year due to prescription drug overdoses in the United States alone ( 17 000 are due to painkillers specifically), remember how many of cannabis? Exactly

The idea that marijuana may be the initial step for a life of drug use seems plausible at first, because when addicts tell their stories a lot of them begin with a story about marijuana, and there is a strong correlation between marijuana use and other drug use, but this depends from person to person, for example a person that rides a motorcycle is likely to have ridden a bicycle as a kid than those who don't ride motorcycles, but that doesn't mean that riding a bicycle as a kid will make you ride motorcycles. It simply means that most people ride bikes and the kind of people who don't are highly unlikely to ever ride a motorcycle. Scientists have abandoned the theory that cannabis causes users to try drugs as far as 1999. Since then many studies fail to support the gateway theory. Every year the USA funds two big surveys on drug use in the population, but they find that the people who try marijuana is much grater that cocaine and heroin. For example in 2009 2,3 million people reported trying pot compared to 617 000 who tried cocaine and 180,000 who tried heroin. Secondly marijuana's illegality helps with the association with dealers that most likely will sell heroine and cocaine and that factor could very easily be stopped by making it