Some may believe that cannabis should be legalized because there are a lot of other drug that are legal like cigarettes. They way cigarettes help people with stress and their problems, weed/cannabis can help the same way, but weed/marijuana/cannabis can be prescribed by a doctor, but cigarettes aren’t. Cannabis should be legalized because it helps with stress and can be profitable for many people. Cannabis should be legal for many reasons, two of those reasons are, alcohol is more dangerous than weed and for medical reasons. One of the reasons cannabis should be legal is because it is considered less dangerous than alcohol. For instance when you're on the influence of alcohol and your driving your considered a danger to the road. In the New York Times it states “Marijuana is less addictive than tobacco or alcohol, and compares favorably to those drugs on nearly every health metric”. This piece of evidence is relevant because there are so many accidents happening on the road because of alcohol but that is still legal, but when someone is under the influence of weed they are rarely going to get into a …show more content…
Some illnesses that prescribe weed is Cancer, Glaucoma, HIV/AIDS and other types of illnesses that need that kind of drug. Cannabis is make to help the cell in the body for the ill to help fight the disease or help maintain health. In the New England journal it states, “There is a growing body of research on the medical benefits of consuming cannabis flowers, and legalization should make it easier to study the therapeutic potential and allow access for patients who could benefit” (2017). This is saying that research states that medical marijuana helps the body grow to some extent. And the study of how the type of drug work on the human body, which would be easier for researchers could find ways to prevent road