Marijuana Should Be Legalized

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r at least three months. A study on how marijuana affects IQ performed in Toronto proved, “Marijuana does not have a long-term negative impact of global intelligence” (Branswell 1). Dumbness caused from pot ends when the pot smoker stops smoking pot. Tests of current users who wanted to quit smoking pot showed that the longer a person smoked pot, the affects of memory and attention span worsened. The certainty of the tests is unknown as Dr. Harrison Pope notes, “These long-term users may have been worse off in the first place, before they ever smoked marijuana” (Cloud 64). The possibility of long term damage to a marijuana user’s brain is slim to none.
Can marijuana shut a person’s brain down? Marijuana can not turn people brain dead after smoking continuously. Every year, thousands of people die from an overdose of alcohol, but it is still legal. Is it possible for a person to die from smoking too much pot? “NO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM THE POISONING, mostly because a 160-lb. person would have to smoke roughly 900 joints in a sit...