The legalization of marijuana is a topic of discussion not only of years or decades, but of centuries. In fact, regulations on the sale of marijuana began back in the sixteenth century and it is still undecidable today. For years, marijuana has been used by doctors with the purpose of helping people with serious health problems, especially for cancer patients. Therefore, marijuana should be legalized all around United States.
The legalization of marijuana has several positive effects. One of them is the benefit for the whole community by being 3 times better than medicine that is used to treat different sicknesses. In the website of Web MD, it is stated “Pain Is the main reason people ask for prescription, says Barth Wilsey, MD, a pain medicine specialist at the University of California Davis Medical Center.” Muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, Nausea from
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If the legalization of drugs was measured by their level of toxicity and injury to health, marijuana would be the first to be legal. There are drugs that damage the U.S population being sold at every gas station around the corner. Alcohol vs Cigarettes, explains the health issues on the body the addiction of the alcohol and smoking causes. Excessive alcohol consumption is known to cause the development of sixty major types of diseases and approximately 2.5 million deaths per year, more than HIV or tuberculosis. Alcohol is ranked globally as the third leading cause of disease and disability. Cigarettes are known to be highly addictive, with more than 4,000 chemicals in each cigarette. The purpose of some of these chemicals is to simulate addiction, which increases the urge to smoke more frequently. Smoking it’s the cause of cancer in different organs in the human body; cancer of the bladder, cervix, esophagus, kidney, lungs, and mouth. Many of these cancer cases end up with no solution, just