Legalization keeps progressing in advance, but because of many years of government obstructions on research, there is nearly not enough known about the dangers of marijuana, or the benefits. With four states permitting its use for medicinal and recreational purposes and 23 states only for pharmaceutical, there has been many thoughts whether this plant should be kept unlawful in the United States or not. Activists believe that the legalization will provide many benefits to the citizens as well as the economy, but antagonists think it will just make it easier for people to obtain it for recreational purposes. Legalizing marijuana in all 50 states should not be a crime, because making something that is naturally grown is unnatural.
Medical marijuana
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Although one might think that having a large amount of THC in your system may result in death, studies have shown that marijuana over usage does not increase a person’s chance of death. In fact, not a single person has ever died from an overdose of marijuana. According to one study, a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times the amount of THC in order to be at risk of death, but having large consumptions is nearly impossible The effects are less severe than those of tobacco and alcohol, which together cause more than 560,000 American deaths annually. Unlike alcohol, marijuana is not a neurotoxin, meaning that it does not contain any toxic agents or substances that inhibits, damages or destroys the tissues of the nervous system, especially neurons, the conducting cells of your body's central nervous system. Unlike cigarettes, marijuana is not connected to lung cancer. Unlike heroin, marijuana is not a gateway drug. Smoking marijuana will not lead to the use of other drugs; people who smoke marijuana first before trying other drugs is correlation not causation. Just recently, researchers published a paper that argued that deaths from painkillers are lower in states that have approved medical marijuana. Because of that, marijuana’s benefits seem to outweigh the potential harms for people who have intractable nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, or severe and intractable pain from chronic illnesses that won’t respond to other therapies. By comparison, opioid analgesics, which are commonly used to treat pain, caused 16,007 deaths in 2012 based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With these statistics, it would seem irrational to let marijuana usage be