Many people assume that marijuana is dangerous, but it can be the exact opposite. There is no evidence that anyone has died from marijuana. People pay lots of money for pills and drugs that kill them. Marijuana is not what people imagine it to be. Prescription pills causes thousands of deaths throughout the whole world, you cannot die from a marijuana overdose because cannabinoid receptors are not located in the brainstem areas where they control respiration. The receptors are not present in areas that control breathing. If you do inject too much marijuana the symptoms of an overdose are temporary and wears off within 24 hours. Marijuana has an indirect role in fatalities while other drugs have had a direct role. Legal drugs do more harm than marijuana does. Marijuana should be legalized because it’s already used as medicine to help people. One detail from the article “the good, bad, and unknown about marijuana’s health benefits” is, “it can most certainly ease chronic pain and might help people sleep”. This demonstrates that marijuana is a good thing to use to ease pain and it also helps people sleep better at night. Another detail from this …show more content…
One detail from the article, “medical marijuana: better than current treatments” is, “medical marijuana is quite frequently cheaper than more commonly used prescriptions”. This demonstrates that marijuana is way cheaper than what other doctors prescribe to patients. Using marijuana will save you a lot of money. Another detail from the article is, “this will not only decrease the burden prescription drug payments place on entitlement spending, but, more importantly, will save money if they pay for marijuana instead of paying for regularly prescriptions, which cost a lot of money. Therefore, it is most valid to argue that marijuana should also be legalized because it helps people save money that they could use for something else in the