I always get angry when I read discussions about the legalization of Marijuana. Most of the time you see people flaming back and forth with really weak reasoning. Well here's my take on the issue.The main reasoning I've heard against marijuana is:Like cigarettes, smoking it may lead to cancer (although I have seen no studies that show this).It impairs peoples judgement - (maybe not - keep reading)It is a gateway drug leading to the use of other drugsIts just bad because it is.Ok, now for the Pro-Marijuana reasoning:A study conducted in New York this year showed that the reasoning of experienced pot smokers was not affected by being high. Their response time was however.Marijuana effectively helps people with certain types of pain.Marijuana is bought, sold and used illegally in this country despite huge the large penalties associated with it. This drives up its black market price making some people very rich and promoting crime. Legalizing it would take a huge chunk of profits out of the hands of drug dealers and put it into the hands of law obiding citizens.Supposedly, Marijuana is more effective and successfull in the treatment of certain psychological disorders than the drugs that are legally available for their treatment.I'm hoping that the legalization of medical marijuan eventually takes hold nation wide and federally. My reasoning behind this is that if it does, it will be easier, and less taboo to study it. Proper studies will effectively prove or disprove the propoganda we hear from either side of this argument, and we'll finally know if its good or bad. I get incredibly angered at people who refuse to open their minds to the possiblity that all of the negative propoganda they've grown up hearing about pot might be wrong when the fact is NOBODY KNOWS. Marijuana could be a miricle drug that helps all kinds of conditions that are we currently don't have solutions to. Its use could even be beneficial to our health in general. The one thing that is true about Marijuana is that unless people open their minds and allow our scientists and doctors to investigate the possibilities, we'll never know the truth. That's what infuriates me.
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