Legalization of Marijuana for Medicinal Use
Marijuana is an illegal drug whose use is prevalent in our country. Growing up as a child, it has always been advertised as a dangerous harmful drug that takes lives. To this day I see commercials on the television of kids smoking marijuana and then randomly deciding to shoot themselves, or running someone over in a car accident. I believe this gives a misperception of the effects of marijuana on the general populace. Marijuana is by no means healthy for you. In fact, its use is overall ill-advised for the common person because after all smoking anything can cause cancer. Additionally marijuana is a psychoactive drug which can affect your concentration, motor coordination, memory, and reproductive and immune systems. What the federal government does not emphasize however the positive, medicinal uses of marijuana are. While marijuana is proven to have adverse effects on an individual’s psychological and physical health, it does......
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