Marijuana Legalization
Jannys Ramos Lambert
Professor Joe McDade
English Composition 2
11 November 2014
Marijuana is a drug that people love and may hate. Weed produces a pleasurable feeling too many people and to others it produces relief. THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) the ingredient in marijuana that produces the high, remains in the body for 2 to 4 weeks (Cary, 2006) Marijuana impairs attention and coordination and slows reaction time, and these effects make operating complex machinery such as an automobile dangerous, even after the feeling of intoxication has passed. Marijuana can interfere with concentration, logical thinking, formation of new memories, and retrieval of stored memories (Niyuhire et al., 2007; Verdejo-Garcia et al., 2005). Many of the receptors for THC are in the hippocampus which explains why the drug affects Memory (Genen, 2012). (Boyd, Green, and Wood 135)
There are many different things that marijuana does to effect human behavior; it can affect internal and external body parts: The lungs, the brain, the skin, the eyes, and even the sex organs. Marijuana is also known to help cancer patients, or people with chronic pains. The question always asked, is Marijuana harmless or secretly harmful?
Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and even Oprah Winfrey have smoked pot before. Well established celebrities that have a strong fan base can influence them to continue the habit many celebrities speak about smoking weed and glorifying it, therefore kids will definitely see no harm in it or will jump on the bandwagon and then a never ending cycle begins. Lady Gaga even said “I smoke a lot of pot when I write Music”. What most people don’t understand is the celebrities’ get the same issues that but they have the money to make sure that the problems do not show, access to the best doctors, money. Although weed is cheap and easy to get the damages that it does to your body is 100 times more expensive. Depending on what people chose to smoke on: Bongs, Cigar paper, zig zag roll
Professor Joe McDade
English Composition 2
11 November 2014
Marijuana is a drug that people love and may hate. Weed produces a pleasurable feeling too many people and to others it produces relief. THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) the ingredient in marijuana that produces the high, remains in the body for 2 to 4 weeks (Cary, 2006) Marijuana impairs attention and coordination and slows reaction time, and these effects make operating complex machinery such as an automobile dangerous, even after the feeling of intoxication has passed. Marijuana can interfere with concentration, logical thinking, formation of new memories, and retrieval of stored memories (Niyuhire et al., 2007; Verdejo-Garcia et al., 2005). Many of the receptors for THC are in the hippocampus which explains why the drug affects Memory (Genen, 2012). (Boyd, Green, and Wood 135)
There are many different things that marijuana does to effect human behavior; it can affect internal and external body parts: The lungs, the brain, the skin, the eyes, and even the sex organs. Marijuana is also known to help cancer patients, or people with chronic pains. The question always asked, is Marijuana harmless or secretly harmful?
Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, and even Oprah Winfrey have smoked pot before. Well established celebrities that have a strong fan base can influence them to continue the habit many celebrities speak about smoking weed and glorifying it, therefore kids will definitely see no harm in it or will jump on the bandwagon and then a never ending cycle begins. Lady Gaga even said “I smoke a lot of pot when I write Music”. What most people don’t understand is the celebrities’ get the same issues that but they have the money to make sure that the problems do not show, access to the best doctors, money. Although weed is cheap and easy to get the damages that it does to your body is 100 times more expensive. Depending on what people chose to smoke on: Bongs, Cigar paper, zig zag roll