Marijuana Should Not Be Illegal

Marijuana should not be illegal, it is not as bad as everyone portrays it to be. Marijuana has many advantages to it. It is the most used illegal drug in the world, but yet it is still frowned upon by the government. Which does not make very much sense, to the fact that marijuana is a cash crop ready to happen. The question is will it ever be happen?

Marijuana has been around for many years, ages even. It is a mixture of dried up leaves from the cannabis sativa plant. The hemp plant has many uses. It can be used for the following: to brew tea, make rope, paper, wax, oil, resign, rope and hash oil . Hash oil is a gooey like substance contained with highly amounts of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is the chemical in the plant that gets you

For example some short term effects would be: altered sense of time, changes in mood, impaired body movement, impaired memory. Some long term effects are, breathing problems, increased heart rate, temporary paranoia, and depression. When a person smokes marijuana, THC quickly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream. The blood carries the chemical to the brain and other organs throughout the body. The body absorbs THC more slowly when the person eats or drinks it. In that case, “the user generally feels the effects after 30 minutes to 1 hour” (“Drug

The use of marijuana usually peaks in the late teens and early twenties, and then declines in later years. Therefore, marijuana use among young people remains a natural concern for parents and the focus of continuing research, particularly regarding its impact on brain development, which continues into a person's early twenties” (“Marijuana Stats”).Many parents think that if marijuana were to be legalized , then all their underage children would be getting high . To a certain extent this is true , but there is not much you can do in today’s time to keep things out of the reach of underage teenagers. In most states you have to be 21 to drink alcohol, but yet there is an outrageously large amount of underage drinkers . With marijuana, you would have to take the same precaution of consuming it, as if you were trying to hide alcohol from your children . Keeping bad things away from children all relies on the parents actions . The only thing that could get in the way of us putting a stop to marijuana getting in the hands of a minor , is that minors can get it out the streets . This will not stop anytime soon , but with the help of pharmacies in place , this could help keep the dealers off the street due to