Legaliztion of Marijuana

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Picture in your mind, a young girl that is almost done with her freshman year of high school. These next few years are supposed to be some of the best years of this girl’s life. But now she has to worry about side effects of chemotherapy. The chemo that this girl has transfused into her has many side effects that come with it. The chemo basically kills a person in order to kill the cancer cells. These side effects include nausea, intense pain and a loss of appetite.
• There is only one drug that exists today that has the potential to cure all of the above side effects, and that is marijuana.
• That s right, the illegal drug marijuana.

The only thing stopping the doctor to prescribe it to her is the fact that the government has refused to legalize marijuana,
despite its medical benefits.


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• One reason why the government should legalize marijuana is because the bad effects of marijuana have been greatly exaggerated.
• While some people say that marijuana has harmful side effects, there has been nο proof for these theories.
• For instance, some have said that marijuana leads to violence, crime, memory damage, and damage to the immune system, but they have nο proof to back υp these theories.

The government cannot rely οn theories, if they, don’t have a solid basis.

Another problem with these theories is that many of the studies showing these bad effects have been performed only on animals, and not on humans.
It is impossible to tell how a drug will act on a human, with the only examples being animals.

Ιn addition to the exaggeration of the bad effects, the government should legalize marijuana because it is doing more harm now than it would if it were legal.
• One reason why marijuana would be better off legal is because it is a source of violence.
• Gangs make a large profit from the selling of drugs such as marijuana.
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