Could marijuana legalization affect the human health? After
making the rule of gay marriage legal in many states, now marijuana is
legal also. What else could be legal in the future? On November 7 2013,
the city of Portland became the first city on the east coast to legalize marijuana after Washington and Colorado with 6.7% of the votes-9921 to 4823
according to Portland Press Herald.
These
cities legalize marijuana to increase the income of the city and impose
taxes on merchants. The study from the Colorado Center in law and policy
projected shows that the tax could reduce 60 million in new revenue and savings
annually in the first years of legalization for the state. The government takes
advantage from legalization rules such as using marijuana that affect in a bad
way the human health to get benefit from it such as increasing the state tax of
sales. For example, many studies have recently been published, had examined the
negative sides of using marijuana and how could affect the brain permanently
and cause damage for it. The daily use of marijuana can become a risk to be
independent for some people and can be adducted to use it. Marijuana also
affects the brain memory of the human for daily using and their ability to
think and focus clearly on the real life. Marijuana could cause hallucination
that could make the person’s life in non-reality life that could affect the
human safety especially during driving or walking in the street. I have
interviewed many people and talked about marijuana new law, 75% of them
have not support it because it could make the people who are under 21 years old
get marijuana easily and that could take them to the next level in the future
which is the addiction on drugs.
So the government should take
in concern the safety of human life before it runs those rules.
US.Government published “Marijuana and It’s Affects” late last month, and while I agree with a portion of the article, I’m concerned by the rest of it and how it paints the legalization of marijuana in a negative light.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that taxing it could help alleviate some of the debt the state has, while also bringing in extra revenue to be used for the benefit of the state and its citizens. But I don’t agree that people should be concerned with the health risks it poses. There are so many more things out there that are worse for you like caffeine and trans fats, and people take in all those by the gobs full every day. In my opinion I think legalizing marijuana and having it regulated if anything, would make it harder for minors to get their hands on. I know that when I was growing up it was always harder to get beer and cigarettes as opposed to some “pot,” because beer and cigs were legal and regulated.
In my research, the tests that have been conducted to see if marijuana is indeed an addictive drug have all come back negative, and not one shows any indication of the user at any point becoming addicted to “weed.” There were no signs that the body or mind ever suffered from the daily use of marijuana. When in fact there were tests done on the bodies of alcoholics and long-term cigarette smokers that all concluded that there were serious health issues that came from the continuing use of either alcohol or tobacco. All of which are legal, so tell me……why can’t “pot” be?