Do you smoke marijuana? Weed, Maryjane, ganja, herb. That’s great! So, does about 30
million other Americans. You would think with about 30 million Americans that smoke (Ossola).
Marijuana, it would be legal. Wrong! This plant that grows in the ground with a little water and
sunlight, is classified as an illegal drug by federal law. Marijuana comes from the Indian hemp
plant, and the part that contains the “drug” is found primarily in the flowers (commonly called
the “buds”) and much less in the seeds, leaves, and stems of plants. Marijuana, when sold, is a
mixture of dried out leaves, stems, flowers and seeds of the hemp plant. It is usually green,
brown or gray in color. (What is marijuana). Why is this drug illegal if
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The Report, published in the Scientific Repots,
compared the potential of death from the typical, recreational use of 10 drugs: marijuana,
alcohol, tobacco, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, methamphetamine, diazepam, amphetamine and
methadone. Marijuana was, by far, found to be the safest, even when compared to alcohol and
cigarettes. (Shapiro). Adults at the age of 18 can go out and buy cigarettes that start killing them
the every seconded that smoke is inhaled. Tabaco use is considered the leading preventable cause
of death in the U.S. and chronic alcohol use has been linked to everything from heart disease to
cancer. According to CDC, one in 10 deaths among working –age adults can be attributed to
excessive alcohol poisoning account for more the 2,000 American deaths every year. Meanwhile,
most say there had never been a documented overdose death from marijuana use in someone
without an underlying condition. (Shapiro).
50 states in the United States of America. Seven states and the District of Columbia
passed their states laws for recreational marijuana use. Twenty-seven states in America have
legalized only medical marijuana. The first two states to ever legalize reactional cannabis