Argumentative Essay On Marijuana Legalization

Over the past several years the support for marijuana legalization is rapidly growing in the US. A recent poll in 2015 shows that 58% of Americans say that the drug should be legal while only 42% say it should stay illegal. Most polls regarding Americans and their pot use hover around the 40% mark for having tried marijuana at least once which is equivalent to about 127.7 million people, nearly half the country has already tried marijuana which is more than how many Americans know who Jennifer Lawrence is. To put this into perspective, that's greater than the population of California, Texas, and New York combined. Aside from its popularity Marijuana also has many health benefits and helps people from small everyday problems, to helping reduce
By making it legal we our setting a bad example for the next generations to come. It has been proved that if young kids are around drugs in their childhood, they will most likely fall victim later on and become a user. Marijuana effects the brain, reduces thinking, memory and learning. Now it is true marijuana may have some setbacks but According to the national control drug policy, “1 in 11 users will become addicted. Although this may be true, studies have shown that not one person has died from a marijuana overdose. From a 2012 study from a team of drug experts in the U.K, they assessed the combined effects against others and the user of marijuana to be less harmful than by the use of alcohol or tobacco. “A number of investigators have addressed this issue and found that only a relatively small percentage of those who try marijuana will become addicted. Researchers found that of those who had tried marijuana at least once, only about 9 percent actually get addicted to the drug”. When someone smokes marijuana, THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream, which carries the chemical to organs throughout the body, including the brain giving the sense of