Marijuana is said to be evil; however it’s used heavily among adults today. How evil is marijuana really? When was the last time you heard of a murder, robbery assault, or suicide caused by smoking Marijuana?
According to Former U.S Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders M.D, taken from www.ProCon.org, overwhelming evidence shows that Marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS. Marijuana is also less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.
Pot is nothing compared to other drugs. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana. That’s the least I can say for the other drugs out there. Pot isn’t a gateway drug.
Marijuana causes almost no increase in tolerance. So users don’t normally get bored and look for something more powerful. In fact, according to www.faqs.org, researchers are looking into using marijuana to help crack addicts quit.
Nicotine from cigarettes is more addicting then pot and deadlier too. I don’t know of any cases of lung cancer resulting from marijuana use alone ever being documented. Marijuana makes you relax, which improves your health and well-being
Alcohol is a much more devastating drug. I know people who drink and I also know people who smoke pot. Drinking takes a hold of some one in a more devastating way then pot ever will. Why not put the same laws on pot that drinking already has?
Government experts have admitted that pot doesn’t kill brain cells. According to www.freedomactivist.net, Dr. William Slikker, of the National Center for Toxicological found no evidence of physical alteration in the brains of monkeys exposed to daily doses of pot for up to a year.
Human studies of heavy users in Jamaica and Costa Rica found no evidence of abnormalities in brain physiology.
Newer studies show that marijuana does not impair simple, real-world memory process. Why does marijuana get so much criticism?
According to www.freerepublic.com, in Chinese antiquity, cannabis was known as the “delight giver” and the “liberator of sin.”
In my mind Marijuana isn’t as evil as it’s hyped up to be. Smokers are going to smoke pot regardless; its stupid why put more people in over populated prisons just for smoking pot?