Cons Of Legalizing Marijuana

Marijuana is an American dried flower and leaves of the plant cannabis sativa. Marijuana is considered to be a category C drug, a category C drug is a category of drugs that have not had enough research to determine if they are safe or not. Marijuana is considered a controlled substance. Marijuana is consumed by a many teens and adults in the world. Legalization of marijuana is a controversial topic in today’s society because it’s considered addictive, a gateway drug, but it is also considered helpful medically by helping anxiety and glaucoma and considered to be a less harmful drug. There are a few pros about legalizing marijuana. There are both medical benefits and non medical benefits. Some medical pros are helping people with epilepsy,
One is that it is considered a gateway drug. It is considered that people that smoke and do marijuana get into more serious and illegal drugs. About 208 million people do serious and illegal drugs (Marijuana Legalization) . It is shown that groups of teenage boys that abuse marijuana and alcohol found themselves two to three times more likely to abuse prescription drugs. One dangerous outcome is “stoned driving.” Stoned driving is when people are driving with a high. Researchers say driving while stoned is a good deal more dangerous than people think. Researchers say that people that smoke marijuana while driving are at more risk to swerving into to others lane. Another con of legalizing marijuana is the damage it does to people's body. It damages the brain by causing memory loss. When you have smokes the marijuana it is harder for the brain to have memories and makes it harder for the brain to concentrate. Blood vessels in the brain experience restricted flow which causes the memory loss. The blood vessels continue to do so after months of absence from the drug. Smoking the drug would cause poor lung health, marijuana has twice the carcinogens than tobacco. This is caused by marijuana smokers inhaling deeper than cigarette smokers. When people breathe in the smoke deeper it causes more of the chemicals that cause cancer to come into the body. It affects the digestive system when the marijuana is processed in the liver.
Marijuana has steadily gaining traction as a recreational drug much like alcohol. Since the 1980s it had been the country’s third most popular recreational drug. More than half of Americans support legalizing the intoxicating marijuana partially for medical use. There are 23 states that have legalized smoking marijuana. Eighty-eight percent of the state's registered voters favored legalizing marijuana for medical use. It was also voted to favor the legalization of small amounts for personal use. The drug was moved out of the severe category in the drug classification (Marijuana Legalization)
Various forms of the drugs have been used for thousands of years for medical, social, and aesthetic effects. International treaties forbid growing, selling, and possessing the drug. More than twenty-five million people have used marijuana in the past year. Full legalization of marijuana would replace the black market production and distribution with an aboveboard