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Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

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People every day are getting arrested for a plant that`s safer than alcohol, tobacco and less addictive than coffee but also has medical benefits. Marijuana is an amazing plant with health benefits ranging from cancer to arthritis pain. Marijuana is a money gold mine that can be taxable. It also is widely accepted by majority of the United States. Marijuana should be legalized because it`s safer than already legal drugs, the medical benefits are amazing marijuana also is a widely accepted by majority of the united states.
Marijuana has amazing medical benefits. One of the benefits that it can treat Glaucoma “Marijuana decreases the eye pressure inside the eye, according to the National Eye Institute”.(23) Also The Institute of Medicine (IOM) …show more content…

Overall, crime has fallen by 15% and murder has dropped by 50 %”.( 11) You may believe that having a large amount of THC in your system will kill you but your wrong “In 2010, 38,289 people died from drug overdoses. Sixty percent of those were related to prescription drugs. In that same year, 25,692 people died from alchol-releated causes”. (This) Marijuana is widely miss understood “ According to government surveys, some 25 million American have smoked marijuana in the past year, and more than 14 million people do so regularly despite harsh laws against its use”.( About) Marijuana is way safer than allowed drugs “Marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco. Around 50,000 die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose”.

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