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Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

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Legalization of Marijuana
How would you feel if you had a disease that only marijuana can cure or at least help get rid of some of the symptoms but it was illegal? “When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself from Bob Marley.” I understand that you don’t want to get addicted because my father smoked and it was very addictive for him. I want people to get better but we can’t do that unless they legalize marijuana. It is extremely important to help our country in any way we can.
Marijuana has been around for a long time and people think that the only reason to have it is to get high. Recently, it has been discussed that marijuana can be used for pain relief for cancer and chronic pain. When asked, 84% of the people are okay with marijuana being used as medicine. Due to the fact that there are differences in opinions, …show more content…

There is also research that shows marijuana helps other health issues such as muscle spasms and Multiple Sclerosis. It is also used for muscle spasms of the diaphragm that no other medicine has been able to help.
Marijuana doesn’t harm the heart or lungs. When people inhale to smoke, they take in deep breaths which makes their lungs expand, making them breath better. Research has also shown that people who smoke marijuana does not increase the chances of them getting cancer.
Marijuana helps stop the spreading of some cancers in the brain. It works by slowing the growth of a type of brain tumor that is in about 80% of cancers found in the brain. One of the benefits of marijuana is that it reduces pain and nausea from chemotherapy in a cancer patient and helps increase their appetite. Chemotherapy is a way of getting rid cancer by shrinking the cancer cells, but is very hard on the body. Patients don’t want to eat because it causes them to get sick and throw up.
It has an effect on most people after they smoke it, it makes them hungry. This

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