Legalization Is It For Us?

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The law that makes marijuana illegal is unconstitutional, the government shouldn’t tell us what we can and cannot put in our bodies. This is our choice to put in our body what we want. The evidence that we’ve been presented with about hemp is misleading. This represents the government trying to control American youth and young adults.

The evidence is very misleading and the tests are preformed in the wrong fashion. The government test that is preformed in the wrong manner. They inject animals with nearly lethal doses that is impossible for humans to do. It would be like smoking 15,000 to 20,000 joints, people would pass out way before they reach this point. And when people say that smoking pot causes brain damage the experiment which government officials use, was performed on rhesus monkeys, had an insufficient sample size of only four monkeys. Dr. Robert Heath also mistook several samples of normal monkey brain to be damaged. These mistakes cause his experiment to include very little factual information. Myths that cannabis damages the reproductive system are also unfounded. This fallacy was also found in an experiment, which injected animals with extremely high and sometimes nearly lethal doses of the drug. We know already that it is impossible for

humans to reach this level. Moreover, any animals that survived this experiment returned to full reproductive capability 30 days after the conclusion of the experiment. August 31, 1990 issue of the magazine Science that reports that over 800 volatile chemicals are present in roasted coffee, and only 21 have actually been tested on animals and 16 of these cause cancer in rodents. With all of these carcinogens and chemicals, shouldn’t we stop drinking coffee?

Medicinal marijuana should be allowed because the dieses it helps. There are articles that support the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The Mining Company's Pharmacology and Legal Drugs web site, written by ...