Legalizing Marijuana
Seventy six million dollars, this number represents the amount of tax revenue Colorado has generated alone in just the last year due to legalization of Marijuana for medicinal and recreational uses. Today the ongoing debate about Marijuana addresses the simple question, should marijuana become legal or should it stay illegal throughout the United States. This topic is one that many people find profoundly controversial due to the bad reputation that marijuana has always been given, those people of the older generation are seemingly the ones who generally tend to not be in favor of its legalization. However, the younger generation is on the opposite side of the spectrum of this debate and the vast majority of them stand to support it as new studies and information about marijuana's affects to the body surfaces to the public's knowledge. With all that
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The more marijuana gets researched the more people start to believe that marijuana is not the drug we thought caused you to flatten to your couch and get interviewed by your dog. However, with new findings of potentially positive benefits marijuana can offer many people still argue that the cons far outweigh the pros. Beginning with the pros of marijuana, scientists today have discovered that marijuana has many positive benefits to humans and surprisingly there are many ways that marijuana and its THC and CBD content helps several humans everyday with serious illnesses. What researchers have found is that marijuana can actually help with the following major diseases: AIDS, Cancer, Epilepsy, Asthma, Glaucoma, Migraines, and shockingly it can also help with Alzheimer's disease which many would find shocking seen as marijuana has always been portrayed as the memory loss drug. One of the most notable aspects of