Courtney Serwa
English 4
8 May 2017 Good in Marijuana Should marijuana be legal? Does marijuana do more good than harm? Marijuana has been on this earth for thousands of years. It naturally grows from the earth and it helps us in many different ways. Some people think its ok to smoke marijuana because they believe it does more good than harm but others would disagree. The fact of the matter is marijuana does more good than harm. Smoking marijuana is not as bad as you think. "There is very little evidence that smoking marijuana as a means of taking it represents a significant health risk. Although cannabis has been smoked widely in Western countries for more than four decades, there have been no reported cases of lung …show more content…
If a pregnant women is smoking marijuana it could cause harm to the baby and other things. But women shouldn’t smoke cigarettes when they are pregnant and some still do and that is even worse for the baby if the mother is smoking cigarettes. Marijuana could get addictive if you abuse it like alcohol but it’s not likely. Heavy use of marijuana could lower your sperm count and quality. But yet again cigarettes has almost have the same side effects and cigarettes are still legal. But cigarettes are more bad than good and marijuana has more good than bad. So why aren’t cigarettes illegal? Some states that do have marijuana legalized haven’t reported any serious issues since it became legal. Paranoia is not simply caused from the effects of marijuana. It is the combination of doing something forbidden by law and smoking weed. It inflames your respiratory system. There are rick while smoking marijuana. “One of the most commonly cited negative consequences of legalizing marijuana is the physical risks of the drug, both to those using it and to bystanders. Research has shown that marijuana can increase the likelihood of schizophrenia, mainly if the individual started smoking before the age of 18. There …show more content…
There are more positives than negatives. Marijuana helps and patients and children that are sick. Long story short Marijuana should be legal because it has more positives than negatives. Drug wars aren’t going anywhere especially with marijuana. So they should just make it legal and make it one less drug to worry about because it does a lot more good than bad. “There are numerous arguments for and against the legalization of marijuana, but regardless of your opinion on the issue, the current approach is clearly flawed. The fact that the war on drugs has lasted for over 40 years and drugs are not yet eradicated speaks volumes about the ability of prohibition to control substances. Marijuana users are all over the country, and they are not going away. The discussion of how we should deal with it should be conducted openly and honestly by politicians and the public alike.”
(Drugrehab, par. 4). There is no stopping marijuana users so they should just make it legal and use it for good because there a lot of benefits for it also. At the end of the day marijuana helps people in way we never thought of. So why make it illegal if it does people good? Then again there is bad that comes with medical marijuana. but at the end of the day there are more pros than