Alcohol accounts for 100,000 deaths annually in America. Cigarettes claim 400,000 American's lives every year. The use of all illegal drugs combined - cocaine, heroin, marijuana, angel dust, LSD, etc. account for only about 3,000 deaths annually. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, however, there have been no deaths that can be unequivocally attributed to marijuana use. Yet, the federal government has banned the use of marijuana, while allowing alcohol and cigarettes, even allowing them to be advertised on television and in magazines. Cigarettes cause lung cancer, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, pneumonia, bronchitis, emphysema, among many other long term diseases. Compared with cigarettes and alcohol, the health risks and societal costs associated with even chronic marijuana use are mild.
In fact, Marijuana even prevents chronic loss of appetite associated with chemotherapy and AIDS, along with a variety of rare muscular and skeletal disorders. Less commonly,......
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