Do you want others around you and maybe even you to be exposed to this harmful drug? Marijuanas causes many harmful symptoms, and may also cause mental damage to the user as well. Despite what others think, marijuanas should be illegal because of these reasons. To begin with, marijuanas should not be legal, because of crime, for instance, the legalisation of this drug in Amsterdam has cause there to be more crime, and more kids are being exposed to the drug. According to research done in 2004, users of the drug are 18 times more likely to become dependant on it and 7 times more likely to commit suicide. As you can see, because of the aftermath in Amsterdam, we know more kids would be exposed to marijuanas if it were legalised, which would mean more kids would be harmed and crime would increase. Research has also shown that high school seniors who smoke marijuanas are 2 times more likely to get a traffic ticket, and 65% more likely to get into an accident. To explain, if marijuana was legalised, then the amount of accidents involving cars would increase. As you can see if marijuana was legalised, then many people will get hurt, and society would be more corrupt. …show more content…
For them, they think that marijuanas can be used for medical reasons. According to supporters of marijuanas usage, marijuanas can be used for medical reasons like helping nausea from cancer. Admittedly, it is true that marijuanas can help things like nausea from cancer, and muscle spasms. Even though this is true, marijuanas still has negative effects. In reality, according to some doctors, the effects of marijuanas can be worse than what they cured and has no real use. For example, some effects of using the drugs can be chronic coughs and respiratory infections. As you can see, marijuanas would be very bad for use in the medical