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Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

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The legalization of any form of simulative substance is important when constructing or upholding a broken community and nation. The undeviating debate whether marijuana (weed, or cannabis as other popular names) should be legal nationally, and universally, has been exasperatedly been on for many years throughout the world today. The impact marijuana has amongst the society of today’s interrupts the basic cognitive thinking whether marijuana should be legal state and province wise, nationally, and even universally for many of its positive effects it provides for our society whether it be medically, job-wise, or recreational reasons. Think about it, if alcohol, cigarettes, and the consumption of fatty foods known as junk food are legal shouldn’t …show more content…

When drinking alcohol or even smoking pot, they can both take huge roles in showing both short and long term health effect(s). But alcohol has been reported to about almost 100,000 deaths per year according to a recent report made by the CDC while those associated with marijuana are harder to come by and connected to 0 reported deaths in total. The official publication of the scientific research society, American Scientist, reported that “Alcohol is one of the most toxic drugs and using just 10 times what one would use to get the desired effect, could lead to death Marijuana is one of- if not the—least toxic recreational drug(s) requiring thousands of times the dose one would use to get the desired effect to lead to certain death. This “thousands of times” is actually theoretical since there has never been a case of an individual dying from an overdose of marijuana.” Alcohol and cigarettes are both associated with a wide range of cancers that are able to spread throughout the body as well as the intake of chemically processed food known as either junk food or unhealthy food. When it comes to the manufacture of food, the nutrition and ingredient control are overlooked to look for the main answer, “how does this taste, good?” When we as a society, eat these foods we are basically surrendering our well-being for a temporary inclination or convenience. Thus causing ourselves more bodily harm over something so

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