Marijuana Should Be Legalized

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of heavy users, can indirectly lead to death. Receptors for marijuana are found within immune cells, causing the smoking of marijuana to stone immune cells (Cloud). The negative effects marijuana involves all are from long-term usage. Long-term use of all drugs has negative effects. Drugs similar to nicotine, caffeine and alcohol are all highly addictive, but they are all legal and accepted by the public. The difference between marijuana and legal drugs is marijuana is not addictive.
The majority of people who smoked marijuana in the past did not become addicted because the use of weed is temporary. In 1996, 5% of people still smoked marijuana out of 68.6 million people who smoked pot in the past (Lowry 2). As users of marijuana grow up, the appeal of getting high grows also by decreasing the usage. Today, the fifty to sixty year old adults were the young adults using marijuana in the 1960’s at the start of pot’s popularity. Are problems arising related to marijuana with the adults who smoked pot forty years ago? Do the adults regret smoking pot during young adulthood? No, because the people who used to smoke pot do not feel that it intervened with the life they practice now. A former president aid, Lyn Nofziger states, “There are an awful lot of people in their 50s and younger who smoked pot when they were younger and don’t look on it as something that destroyed their lives” (Stein 60). A person, who helped aid the past presidents, admitted that marijuana did not affect the young adult’s long-term future. Marijuana lingers in a user’s body up to a month depending on the amount of pot the user smokes. Marijuana does not leave traces behind in the body once the substance leaves the body.
Potheads appear as stupid people, but after the traces of pot leave the user’s intelligence is not affected. Decline of IQ does not affect former heavy users. People grow out of dumbness created from pot after weed is out of them fo...