Introduction Paragraph In today’s civilization, marijuana is being used worldwide. Whether it is for medical reasons, recreational use, or escaping depression. The debate on whether the drug should be legalized or not remains a very controversial topic. Although, the Unites States has approved twenty-four states to use it for medical purposes, and two states that allow for recreational use. Not all States allow for a patient to choose what form of the drug they can use to relieve side effects from life threatening illness. There are many studies that have proven how the use of smoking or vaporized marijuana can treat a variety of medical matters, such as cancer, arthritis, epilepsy, glaucoma, HIV, Chronic pain, PTSD, Alzheimer’s, and other …show more content…
The states have benefitted from a dramatic decrease in marijuana arrests and convictions, as well as increased tax revenues, as well as a decrease in violent crime rates. • In Washington alone the number of traffic fatalities remained stable in the first year that adult possession was legalized. COUNTER-ARGUMENT 2 Marijuana is an addictive drug, that does not have any legitimate medical claims. • Marijuana is terrible for your physical health, its more toxic than cigarette smoke. • Marijuana is terrible for your mental health, at lease cigarettes don’t peel points of your IQ. • Why legalize another dangerous substance, marijuana is a schedule I that falls right along with heroin and LSD. RESPONSE TO COUNTER-ARGUMENT 2 Although, many people like to believe that alcohol and tobacco are safer than marijuana, studies have shown that it is the opposite. There is a third of tobacco smokers, and fifty percent of drinkers who become addicted, greatly more than the nine percent that become addicted to marijuana. • There are many studies that prove Marijuana can help different illnesses and it does not appear to pose a risk for healthy adults, nor it has shown to be linked to any serious disease, the way tobacco has with cancer or alcohol to