The Pros And Cons Of Marijuana

“A study from New Zealand conducted in part by researchers at Duke University showed that people who started smoking marijuana heavily in their teens and had an ongoing marijuana use disorder lost an average of eight IQ points between ages thirteen and thirty-eight.” (What). If people are smoking marijuana they are going to lose brain cells, especially if they start smoking early in they will lose a massive amount more. Why would marijuana be legalized anywhere in the United States if it can cause countless problems? Such as the fact that marijuana is highly addictive, it can cause extensive brain damage, and it has countless physical disadvantages. Many people suffer everyday from the impact of marijuana and how addictive it is. Marijuana

Studies with marijuana shows that it can damage people’s immune system, making it easier for people to get sick and now they are more prone to get an illness (Cherney). Marijuana can hurt immune systems of people and this makes it easier for that person to get sick. So if the flu is going around a person who smokes is more likely to get sick that a person who does not smoke or use marijuana. Also if there is someone near the person who uses marijuana that has a disease or viruses that person is more likely to get sick and even die from it than someone who does not use marijuana in anyway. Although marijuana can ease the pain of control spasms and seizure there are riskier and incredibly worse long term effects on the Central Nervous System. It can alter people’s balance, coordination, and reflex response (Cherney). Marijuana has some serious long term effects on people’s nervous systems. People who use marijuana can lose balance and reflex reaction time. This can be a serious problem if the person is out of their house or even in their home. Many people could get vigorously injured or even die if something really goes wrong. Smoking marijuana is the most damaging and dangerous ways to use marijuana. Smoking marijuana is also one of the most popular ways to use it (Pinola). If smoking is the worst way to use marijuana then,

“Marijuana is the only anti-nausea medicine that increases appetite” (Top). Marijuana can increase people’s appetite, so if a person is struggling with keeping food down and/or eating in general it might be a good fix temporarily for them. Marijuana becomes addictive instanously. Even though marijuana can help that person who struggles with not eating for a short amount of time, it has many more countless, horrible effects. It can make people lose their balance, causes people’s immune systems to become weaker making it easier for them to get sick, it causes addiction, and causes people to lose many IQ points. Marijuana does a lot more bad than it does good for the person who uses it. Many people do not understand that marijuana has lots of consequences. For example: “For some users, perhaps, as much as ten percent cannabis leads to psychological dependence, but there is scant evidence that it carries a risk of true addiction” (Top). Addiction is one of the many side effects of marijuana. It is not an easy side effect to get over, it takes plenty of time to get over. So even if marijuana provides some medical improvements it does not mean that it does not have many dreadful side