Your daughter is sitting in the dining room eating her breakfast, when suddenly she starts having a severe seizure. This doesn’t surprise you because she has had 200 hundred other seizures in the last week. Many children, and their families, in the suffer needlessly with illnesses or disabilities, such as epilepsy, that could be treated better with marijuana In comparison to other drugs that are legal in the U.S., marijuana is safer. Tobacco is legal, yet when compared to marijuana, which is illegal, it is much more dangerous. Tobacco kills 480,000 Americans per year, and the 17.8 percent of America that smokes tobacco are estimated to die 10 years earlier. Alcohol, which is legal, is more dangerous than marijuana. Around 88,000 people die from Alcohol every year and 9,967 people died from alcohol-impaired driving. Many people say that marijuana is a gateway drug, meaning that those who use it are likely to try harder drugs, but this is not true. “Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang members are probably more 104 times more likely to have ridden a bicycle as a kid than those who don’t become Hell’s Angels, but that doesn’t mean that riding a two-wheeler is a “gateway” to joining a …show more content…
Marijuana can be used to treat a multitude of diseases, illnesses and disorders, but due to its illegality, it is not used. Serious diseases like AIDS, alzheimer’s, arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic pain or epilepsy are all treatable by marijuana. With some of these serious diseases, people have to take dangerous prescriptions to deal with it, when they could use marijuana instead. In 2015 more than 15,000 people overdosed from prescription opioids, which are painkillers most commonly used for treating cancer, or chronic pain. Currently in the U.S., there are laws which make it very difficult to research marijuana, and because of this, we will have a hard time learning about additional medicinal uses of